Over the decades, a lot of attempts have been made to try and make pens and pencils “smart”. Whether it’s to enable a pen to also digitally record what we’re writing down on paper, to ...

They were inspired by classic picture-drawing automatons ... An ordinary ballpoint pen is held in a spring-loaded carrier, which provides just enough pen-to-paper pressure to reliably draw ...

After using the new XPPen Artist Pro 19 (Gen 2) for a number of weeks for this review, I can honestly say those promises are ...

Try experimenting with different colours of ballpoint pen to create layers of texture. Light-coloured felt tips can easily pick up darker colours from a drawing surface. This can be avoided by ...

A pioneer in nib-less fountain pens, the company specialises in meticulous drawing instruments, selling sets of multiple-sized nibs since 1967 – the Rapidograph’s chrome nib can be as slender as 0.1mm ...