Awesome Drawing

The slimline Uni Jetstream Edge has the finest point we’ve ever seen on a ballpoint pen. Its 0.28mm tip is ideal for precise line drawings, crosshatching, and other detail work. It uses smooth-flowing oil-based ink and is refillable. The pen has a wire clip, a textured grip, and a hexagonal contour to prevent rolling. It’s available with a white, black, or blue body.

The wallet-friendly Komi Sketch Ruler helps you draw perfectly spaced lines, circles, angles, and more. It works in mm, inch, 150 / 300 dpi px, and pica scales and has conversion formulas on its face. It also doubles as a straight edge for cutting and a paper clip. It’s made from FR-4, the same sturdy material used in printed circuit boards.

Budding artists are often encouraged to draw trees for quick sketching success. Drawing Trees branches out from that lesson with 30 meditative guided drawings of trees, leaves, and other identifiers. Trace the images with a pen or pencil to grow your skills and knowledge of tree species from Black Walnut to White Ash.

This set of geared shapes works like a Spirograph but lets you create more complicated and diverse patterns. The Planarc 2.0 Spiral Maker set includes 10 gears, three rings, and an outer frame to help you draw countless geometric designs. The basic set is made from acrylic, but there’s an aluminum version for a little more money.

DP Truong is an expert at creating portraits using unconventional techniques. In this video, he imitated the way that a flatbed scanner captures an image, masking off a stripe to draw an image 0.5″ tall section at a time. Adding to the challenge, he drew the same image with his left hand simultaneously.

This duo of stainless steel tools helps with measuring, drawing, and other everyday tasks. The wallet-friendly Horizon Helvetica features inch, cm, pixel, and pica rulers, a compass, a protractor, a t-square, a set square, and an isometric grid. Its sibling, the Horizon Key, has a bottle opener, hex bolt wrenches, a mini saw, a spoke wrench, a screwdriver, and more.

RCLifeOn built a unique drawing machine that creates geometric illustrations on an acrylic sheet using a computer-controlled fluorescent marker. Bright LED lights help the images glow brilliantly. For now, images must be manually erased between drawings, but he plans to add an eraser mechanism.

South Korea-based artist Drawholic wows us with a colored-pencil portrait of Din Djarin and Grogu. The time-lapse video lets us observe the entire process from start to finish, as the rough outlines give way to color, shading, and a background that makes the image pop off of the page.

These unique curved rulers have a decided advantage over using a compass to draw circles. They have markings that let you measure the diameter of a circle, as well as arc length, allowing you to draw precise circles and curves with a single tool. Sold in 1″ to 3.5″, 3″ to 6″, and combo packs.

This stainless steel card incorporates a variety of drawing and measuring guides. It has a protractor for marking angles, and inch, centimeter, pica, and pixel rulers. It’s also got compass points, isometric grids and cubes, circles, and edge stencils. An upgraded package includes a leather card holder and a matching memo book.

This fascinating machine uses gravity to draw smooth spiral images known as Lissajous curves. It’s modeled on a 19th-century device called a harmonograph, updated with self-aligning gimbals and a spring-loaded pen holder that can accept various writing instruments. It attaches to any tabletop using a single clamp.

This set of drawing tools makes it easy to create precise shapes. By combining its parts, you can draw circles, hexagons, triangles, squares, and more. Use it to measure angles with its protractor or long lines with its rolling ruler. Its extendable ruler can be used to draw objects from 0.4″ (10mm) to 18.7″ (475mm) in diameter.

These unique dual-tip pens from Aechy have a patterned roller at the back that can lay down a uniform border. The pack comes with eight colors and five different line styles, including dash, dash-dot, squiggle, hearts, and flowers. The other end has a conventional 0.4 writing tip. If you only need squiggles, check out this 12-color set.

Drawing in perspective allows artists to create 2D images with the illusion of depth. Rob of BK Architecture shows us how you can easily create 2-point perspective by drawing along an elastic cord strung between two push pins manipulated by a paperclip. A single pushpin can be used to draw a fisheye perspective.

Makers Cabinet makes the fanciest pencil sharpener we’ve laid eyes on, and we want one. Made from solid brass with a carbon steel blade, the Høvel planes the tip of pencils to a precision point. Instead of twisting pencils, its flat blade action reduces broken leads. Upgrades include a walnut base and an Italian leather sheath.

This elegant drawing tool deserves a place on your desktop, not hidden away in a drawer. The brass and steel tool adjusts to create and measure circles from 3 to 70 mm in diameter and includes a walnut insert for centering. We also love their brass Stria folding ruler. (Thanks Richard!)

Artist DP Truong is always coming up with clever and different ways to draw portraits. This time out, they just used a pencil, but the trick is that it was covered with thorns on every side, making it incredibly difficult to grip and sharpen without causing pain.

Not to be confused with the Phi Ruler, this drawing tool offers another method for drawing with the Golden Ratio, a mathematical ratio known for its ability to produce images and objects with harmony, balance, and structure. The Phi Ruler 2.0 comes in three sizes and in clear or a Bauhaus-inspired color scheme.

Printing and silkscreening produce full-color images by separating colors into cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, then printing them a layer in a dot pattern. This artist does the same, only using markers on transparencies. They didn’t bother with black because CMY is enough to create most colors, just without much contrast.

DP Truong continues to show off his creative illustration techniques with a beautifully shaded black-and-white illustration of Black Panther’s Princess Shuri made from thousands of individual dots. While drawing with his right hand, he tapped out a count of each dot with his left using a smartphone app.

Marvel’s catalog of characters is enormous – even if you just look at its biggest heroes and baddies, there are at least a dozen of them. The Box Office Artist decided to create a hybrid of characters like Venom, Hulk, Thanos, Hulkbuster, Rhino, and Drax, combining them into one terrifying beast. The big reveal starts about 7-minutes in.

The moiré pattern created by moving a striped transparency over special images can create the illusion of movement. While we’ve seen the idea executed using printed images, this is the first time we’ve seen someone draw the patterns by hand. We’re guessing there’s some editing trickery going on here, but it fooled us.

Bonomemo’s special sticky notes are made from tracing paper, so you can see through to images below for referencing or copying them. Sold in four different cuts either individually or in a set. There’s also an extra-wide version. We found some similar sticky notes on Amazon too.