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How to Say “Pencil” In Ten Different Languages

Before you travel abroad to a country whose native language is different from your own, it's a good idea to have some helpful words and phrases in your back pocket to help you get around. Of course it's important to be able to order food, ask…

Our Favorite Dr. Seuss Drawings

Fans of Dr. Seuss (and let's face it, who isn't a member of that club?) have something to celebrate! A newly-discovered manuscript by Theodor Geisel, a.k.a Dr. Seuss, is being published by Random House and will be released on July 28. The book…

Handy Notebook Organization Tips

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I sincerely hope you’re still using a paper notebook.  No, really.  While services like Evernote turn paperless note-keeping into a tantalizing possibility, we’re champions of the tactile sensation you get from rifling through the pages…
Pencil Artist David Sirkoski

Pencil Artist of the Week: David Sirkoski

This week’s featured pencil artist is David Sirkoski, a pencil artist from Belgrade, Serbia who starts his drawings with traditional tools and finishes them on a computer. His DeviantArt gallery is filled with wondrous characters, landscapes…
Pencil Microphone

Building a Matchbox Microphone Using Pencil Graphite

Lifehacker recently posted this video uploaded by video blogger DaveHax that shows us how to make a simple matchbox microphone out of a few pencils, a matchbox and, well, little else. How a Microphone Works Microphones have little diaphragms…
Beginning Artist Mistakes to Avoid

10 Mistakes All Beginning Artists Make

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We all make mistakes, especially when we're learning something new. Below are ten of the most common mistakes beginning artists make, and what you can do to avoid them. 1. Using a pencil that's too hard The standard number two pencil we…
Pencil Artist Sandrid Navarro

Pencil Artist of the Week: Sandrid Navarro

This week’s featured pencil artist is Sandrid Navarro, a pencil artist from Colombia who creates color pencil drawings of people, animals and more. Sandrid uses a combination of Prismacolor color pencils, Faber-Castell color pencils and Fabriano…
CursiveLogic

An Interview with CursiveLogic’s Linda Shrewsbury

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Let's get this out of the way right off the bat: I love to write things out by hand. Even before I became entrenched in the world of pencils, pens, notebooks and the like, I loved scribbling in the margins of books, writing lists before a vacation…
Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson on Why You Should Always Carry a Pencil

This morning, one of my favorite pencil users, Austin Kleon, posted a link to video featuring another one of my favorite pencil users, Clive Thompson. The video features the keynote Clive delivered at one of Hubspot’s INBOUND Bold Talks titled…
Pencil Artist Don Gaconnet

Pencil Artist of the Week: Don Gaconnet

This week’s featured pencil artist is Don Gaconnet, a pencil artist from the United States who works graphite, acrylic paint, charcoals and color pencils. His DeviantArt gallery is filled with drawings created using a combination of these…