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Pencil Erasing Techniques

Pencil Erasing Techniques to Maximize Your Eraser

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Maximizing Your Eraser: Five Simple Tips & Techniques Whether you're a serious graphite artist, a casual sketcher or a student who refuses to surrender their trusty #2, you already know how valuable your eraser can be - or do you? Erasers…
The Pencil Economy

Pencil Sales to Increase 4% Over Five Years

Admit it, you've wondered - does anyone over Scantron age still buy pencils? It's okay, we're not offended. It's a fair question. I'm happy to report that the answer is yes! According to the Wall Street Journal, pencil and pen sales are up…
Pencil Drawings by BaileyT

Pencil Artist of the Week: BaileyT

This week’s featured pencil artist is BaileyT, a pencil artist from the United States who creates photorealistic color pencil drawings, oil paintings, and digital pieces. Regardless of how she finishes them, all of Bailey’s drawings start…
How to Hand Sharpen a Pencil

How to Hand Sharpen a Pencil

To many people this post may seem like a joke. I mean seriously, who can’t figure out how to sharpen a pencil. Well, truth be told, like many things that appear simple from the outside, there are tricks to hand sharpening a pencil? In fact,…
Pencil Eraser

Why Some Erasers Don’t Work (And How to Find One That Does)

I'm sure we can all recall this scenario: You're sitting in school, taking a standardized test. You know the answer is B, but for some reason you just filled in the bubble for C with your trusty No. 2 pencil, nice and dark, just like the proctor…
Pencil Artist Anita Patterson

Pencil Artist of the Week: Anita Patterson

This week’s featured pencil artist is Anita Patterson, a pencil artist from the United Kingdom who creates observational drawings of the places she visits. Anita’s gallery is filled with drawings created using a combination of graphite pencils,…
The Big Draw Drawing Festival

The Big Draw – The World’s Largest Drawing Festival

One of the things that has made me fall in love with Philadelphia since moving here is all of the festivals. There are festivals celebrating holidays, seasons, neighborhoods - there's even a festival dedicated to bacon. If you have a fondness…
Drawings by Brad Tabar

Pencil Artist of the Week: Brad Tabar

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This week’s featured pencil artist is Brad Tabar, or Dokkalfr if you follow him on DeviantArt. Brad creates pencil drawings that are, in a word, fantastic, in both quality and subject matter. Brad’s DeviantArt gallery is divided into…
Breaking Pencils

Breaking News: Pencils vs. the iPhone 6

By now you're probably familiar with the mass panic caused by the reported fragility of the iPhone 6. While the folks at OtterBox must be dancing a jig right about now, owners of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are clearly struggling to deal with the…

The Pen(cil): Students Design Mechanical Pencils for NASA

Carlos Mencia has a joke about the U.S. spending billions of dollars to develop a pen capable of writing in space, while the Russians just used pencils. The truth is more of a middle ground - both Russia and the U.S. used pencils in space originally,…