Drawing is hard. Even after a lesson with a New Yorker cartoonist, I get spooked by the simplest drawing exercises. If you’re also easily scared off, but you want to get better, try these basic ...

This piece explores a simple yet powerful drawing exercise that is often overlooked but has the potential to transform ...

Maryam Mirzakhani, the late Stanford University math professor whose work involved “describing the geometric and dynamic complexities of curved surfaces,” tackled tough mathematical ideas by doodling ...

An award-winning app, courtesy of the folks behind Khan Academy, Draw and Tell boasts a whole bunch of digital tools—crayons, paint brushes, stencils stickers and more—that encourage kids to ...

Photoshop isn't just for photos. In this lesson, we're going to take a look at Photoshop's ability to create vector graphics with the pen tool. Learning to draw with the Pen Tool is one of those ...

Sketching is a form of visual thinking that exercises the mind and body, and it’s easy to turn your tablet into a portable art studio. By J. D. Biersdorfer “Any one who can learn to write, can learn ...