Despite the rush of new technologies available to architects to express their designs, the humble art of hand-drawing is still alive and well. And when sketching are drafting are done well enough, ...

The lowly pencil is not an elite or showy artistic medium. It doesn't have oil paint's gravitas, or plaster's endearing gauche. Instead, the pencil is accessible, plebeian and utilitarian. If put in ...

Working scientists have all manner of high-tech gizmos to gather field data. But Michael Canfield argues that doing it the old-fashioned way still makes sense. If you teleported Charles Darwin from ...

Look at the images on the page. While many of you will be praising these beautiful, intimate images, they are not photographs, but intricate drawings etched using the humble pencil. These stunning ...