Drawing

Gleaming high-rises and luxury homes are all well and good, but sublime architecture usually begins with a drawing. The World Architecture Festival aims to celebrate both digital and pencil and paper creativity with its Architecture Drawing Prize.

We've been following the WobbleWorks developments since the first Kickstarter in 2013, even raising our doodles off the page on a number of occasions. The professional-grade Pro+ went on sale at the end of October, and we've been giving it a whirl.

Children already spend a lot of time looking at screens, so if they can be taught to draw using a physical pen and paper, so much the better. That's the thinking behind DrawBo, a wall-mounted robot designed to give your kids art lessons.

Although pens may not be a huge source of landfill waste, it still hurts the environment when they're simply thrown away. That's where the Scribit Pen is designed to come in, as it's claimed to be completely compostable.

Since WobbleWorks first lifted doodles off the page to form 3d art, we've seen the company's 3D-printing pen make its way to the classroom and to professional designers. Now the firm is back with the world's most advanced professional-grade model.

Smartphones can be great for taking notes on the fly, but are not quite as satisfying as pen and paper. The reMarkable 2 is claimed to offer users a distraction-free, paper-like writing experience, and we've spent the last week or so trying one out.

Though doodling on a touchscreen tablet can get the job done, some prefer pen and paper. reMarkable combined the two in 2016 with a real paper look and feel, but digital tech running the show. Now the second generation has been announced.

A team of Australian researchers has developed a novel early detection test for Parkinson’s disease based on a short series of drawing and writing tasks. The team is aiming to move through final trial stages and bring the new test to market by 2022.

Whether a computer-created render or hand-drawn sketch, drawings play a crucial role in the creation of the buildings that surround us. With this in mind, the World Architecture Festival has declared the winner of the 2019 Architecture Drawing Prize.

A group of Polish entrepreneurs claim to have developed a pen that writes in almost any color, in the form of the Artera.

Imagine if you were working with a robot that could leave you written messages, or draw diagrams to explain concepts. Such a scenario has come a step closer to reality, as a university student has taught a robot how to copy what we write, and what we draw.

A London-based design team has combined a love of engineering, drawing and cameras to create one of the most elegant tools for drawing circles seen to date. Dubbed "Iris," this ingenious compass is part objet d’art, part engineering wonder, and part Spirograph for grown-ups.