Like many artists, Cam Kendell creates a lot of his work digitally — but sometimes he misses the tactile feel of making a pen-and-ink drawing. When working with clients, “the importance is being able ...

Each year, October brings pumpkins, witches and candy. But for artists, it also brings the annual tradition of Inktober. Illustrator and writer Jake Parker created the drawing challenge 10 years ago ...

Do you scribble absentmindedly with a pen on the edges of a scrap of paper? In the art world, that’s called inking and there’s an entire month dedicated to it online. Social media users transform ...

We often hear people say that art begins where words end. Whether it’s the soft whisper of pencil on paper or the glowing touch of a digital pen on screen, every stroke, every colour, and every line ...

This year, it’s the spooky, scary Halloween-themed Inktober pieces that we’re most excited about. These pieces are wonderfully weird, magnificently macabre, spectacularly spooky, and even more ...

A black and white crow, its beak wide open, leaps out of Avik Kumar Maitra’s Nevermore. Made with ink and gouache on paper, the corvid’s drawing has won several fans on Facebook, and might lead to ...

US-based illustrator Jake Parker started the Inktober drawing challenge in 2009, in which participating artists from all over the world have to draw a different ink drawing every day in October and ...

Throughout October, thousands of people have been drawing. Professional artists and illustrators, cartoonists, people who haven't doodled since school: they've all being taking pen or brush in hand to ...