Tender Pencil and Ink Drawings Pay Tribute to Nursing Home Residents Michelangelo Lovelace made numerous drawings during his time as a nurse’s aide, now on view in Fort Gansevoort’s online ...

2014 has been a watershed year for touch-sensitive pen devices. The pen, the pencil, the stylus, all have a long history in human creativity. Technologists have been intent on capturing that ...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal's ink and pencil drawing of injured Purkinje neurons, created in 1914. (Courtesy of Instituto Cajal) Are our brains beautiful?

Also, just like a pencil, the stylus is mercifully unpowered, so there's no reason to ever worry about charging your pen. The tablet meanwhile, being E Ink, offers days of battery time.

For drawing, some soft-lead Derwent Graphic Pencils will keep your strokes creamy and dark. Though they’re not as stylish as the pricey Palomino Blackwings, they nail the mark-making just as well.

Notability, one of the most popular note-taking apps for iPhone and iPad, just got a new update bringing a Pencil feature.With that, drawing in the platform “feels just like your graphite pencil ...