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Archive for month: February, 2014

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Calvin and Hobbes

American Cartoon Pencil Heroes

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Cartoonists are able to express emotions behind life experiences and conjure reactions with simple means.  Hand-drawn figures can elicit laughter, anger, melancholy and the desire to just see more. The list of power players below outlines the…
Charmaine Ortiz

Pencil Artist of the Week: Charmaine Ortiz

This week’s featured artist is graphite expert and pencil artist Charmaine Ortiz. Charmaine is based in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, where she creates works that push the graphite medium to its breaking point (no pun intended). The following…
Opine

Pencil Sharpening Knives

When I was little, my dad and my brother always carried knives in their pockets wherever they went. They used them for all sorts of things - to open the packaging on tricky bags of gummy bears, to pop the caps off bottles, and even to sharpen…
Frida Kahlo Love Letter

History’s Greatest Love Letters

Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, and I don’t know about you, but I’m excited. A socially-sanctioned opportunity to consume all of the chocolate I want, guilt-free? Yes please! For those of you with a more romantic take on the holiday, however,…

New Palomino Graded Graphite Pencil Unboxing Video

Today, we’re excited to announce that Palomino’s newly redesigned graded graphite pencil is now available on Pencils.com. Here is an excerpt from Palomino’s official unveiling of the new design:  The Palomino graded graphite pencil is…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Jason Rafferty

This week’s featured artist is painter, draftsman and pencil artist Jason Rafferty, a full-time artist living and creating in Asheville, North Carolina. Ever since he can remember, Jason has always sought a creative outlet. This outlet took…
Pencils.com

Introducing the Redesigned Pencils.com

Anyone who has visited Pencils.com in the past few days may have noticed a few changes. We’ve rebuilt the site from the ground up using as many of the Web’s best practices as possible to give you a cleaner design, shorter load times and…
Pencil Artist Roos

Pencil Artist of the Week: Roos

This week’s featured pencil artist is Roos, a pencil artist and DeviantArt contributor from the Netherlands. Roos has been drawing, painting and creating since she was just a little girl and, as a result of her countless hours of practice,…
Super Bowl XLVIII

Football Art: An Update on Pixar Animator Austin Madison

Last year, we profiled Pixar animator Austin Madison as one of our 52 weekly featured pencil artists. We noted that along with his impressive body of work for Pixar and his blog Austin Translation, Austin also runs an additional blog designated…