For millions of people, picking up drawing starts with a familiar frustration: the blank page. The main goal is there — ...

Mark Kistler as “Commander Mark” from his public television series The Secret City. Plenty of Houstonians who grew up in the 80s and 90s probably remember turning on their local PBS station and seeing ...

An award-winning app, courtesy of the folks behind Khan Academy, Draw and Tell boasts a whole bunch of digital tools—crayons, paint brushes, stencils stickers and more—that encourage kids to ...

Combining music and drawing can be a fun way to boost creativity in kids. Both activities stimulate different parts of the ...

At age 4, many young children are just beginning to explore their artistic style. The kid I used to babysit in high school preferred self-portraits, undoubtedly inspired by the later works of Joan ...

Emily Flake discusses how having a child changed how she illustrates kids, and pokes fun at her pre-motherhood drawings. a lot of my pre-kid children look like little adults. So we have some examples ...

A first-grader's quick doodle can tell researchers plenty about what's happening — or not happening — at home. When children reach 6 years old, their drawings matter. Not because of those purple ...

Aaron Zenz is an author and illustrator who creates his own versions of kids' monster drawings. He enjoys creating "fan art" and encouraging creativity. He's made over 300 illustrations so far. Some ...

Imagine asking a classroom full of elementary school students to draw a scientist. Now try to guess how many of them would sketch a female or male scientist. In the decade that spanned 1966 to 1977, ...

You can draw in Google Docs by using the built-in Drawing tool. The Drawing tool allows you to create and manipulate lines, shapes, colors, text, and more to add an artistic touch to your documents.