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Pencil Artist of the Week: Veronika G.

This week’s featured pencil artist is Veronika G., a pencil artist from Germany who creates ink, graphite and Copic marker drawings. Her favorite pencil at the moment is the German-made Faber-Castell Grip 2001, but she uses a variety of soft…

Ten Unique Pencil Designs

Pencils get the creative juices flowing for many artists. Some create beautiful works of art with pencils but, for others, the pencils themselves are the objects of art. I hope you enjoy this list of ten very creative and very unique pencil…

Blackwing Slate Release Date Announced Alongside Video Preview

Yesterday, Palomino posted a video preview of the Blackwing Slate on their YouTube channel. The video shows off the Slate's unique design and asks users what they will create when the Blackwing Slate is released. The release date for the Slate,…

Palomino Introduces the Blackwing 602 Chuck Jones Edition – Available Now on Pencils.com

Yesterday, Palomino announced their collaboration with the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity and unveiled the Blackwing 602 Chuck Jones Edition set. Today, we're excited to announce that it is available online exclusively at Pencils.com, and…

Tips for Shading With Colored Pencils

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One look at my bedspread would be enough to tell you that I love colors - all of the colors, at the same time. In fact, my whole room is pretty colorful. Throughout college I took notes with different colored gel pens, and at work I post my…
Pencil Artist Florian Jaensch

Pencil Artist of the Week: Florian Jaensch

This week’s featured pencil artist is Florian Jaensch, a pencil artist from Germany who specializes in creating portraits and time-lapse drawing videos. Florian’s DeviantArt gallery is filled with graphite, charcoal, and chalk drawings of…

The Rise and Fall of the Yellow Pencil: Part 1

Like the red fire truck or the blue police car, the yellow pencil is an iconic image. We have all relied on the yellow pencil at some point, the color embedded in our very idea of what a pencil is. The burning question: Why are pencils yellow? Why…

Palomino Unveils the Blackwing Slate

Today, Palomino finally took the wraps off of the latest addition to the Blackwing family, the Blackwing Slate, with a full photo preview. Here are the main points: Wear-resistant polymer hardcover Dual-sewn binding (sewn bound twice…

642 Things to Write About: The Year 2100

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For the next week, we’re going to be doing something different on the Pencils Blog. In addition to pencil news and updates, our staff will be writing short stories using prompts from 642 Things to Write About, the most popular book in the…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Anais Vallée

This week’s featured pencil artist is Anais Vallée, a pencil artist from Canada who creates her drawings with the humblest of tools: a #2 graphite pencil and Crayola color pencil. Yes, you read that correctly. No graded graphite pencils.…