Although the market for hand-drawn portraits largely collapsed following the invention of photography, there’s something magical about watching an artist create a lifelike image using nothing but a ...

Though they’ve become marginally more open to using digital technology in recent years, Studio Ghibli still has a well-deserved reputation for doing much of their work the old-fashioned, hand-drawn ...

According to the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WIMA) over three billion retractable ball point pens and over 500 million mechanical pencils were shipped in the US in 2007. Many have ...

The practice of putting pen to paper may be severely stunted, but it’s far from dead. People still use pens to take notes, write letters and append signatures to documents of all sorts. Of course the ...