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 ...

An ordinary ballpoint pen is held in a spring-loaded carrier ... which uses Canny edge detection to create an outline drawing, then fills in the empty bits to create bright and dark areas.

A pen-equipped tablet would need to be extremely effective to function; in other words, it would need to have a sizable ...

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 ...

The XP-Pen Magic Drawing Pad is the most recent pen display from the Shenzhen-based manufacturer and one that represents a bold move into uncharted waters. This is XP-Pen’s first standalone tablet.

For digital creatives, pen tablet vs. pen display vs. tablet is a tricky question that involves weighing up multiple factors. How large a drawing surface do you need? Are you going to be drawing ...