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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

OM System's Director of Product Planning, Hiroki Koyama and VP for Brand Strategy and Product Planning, Kazuhiro Togashi, at CP+ 2025 Photo: Dale Baskin "We are considering the new Pen concept as ...