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Drawings by Rieven

Pencil Artist of the Week: “Rieven”

This week’s featured pencil artist is Vanessa, a pencil artist from Portugal who signs her work as “Rieven.” Vanessa creates hyper-realistic pencil drawings using a variety of tools from a number of different brands, including Faber-Castell,…

How to Sharpen a Carpenter Pencil

My dad is very handy, and when I was growing up he had a workshop in the garage where he would fix things that had broken and make things from scratch. As you can probably imagine, there were not very many things on my dad's workbench that I…
Drawings by Scarlett Royale

Pencil Artist of the Week: Scarlett Royale

This week’s featured artist is Scarlett Royale, a photographer, crafter and pencil artist from the United States. Scarlett creates drawings using a variety of techniques, but two techniques stood out to me while I was browsing her gallery:…

Pencils.com 20 Year Celebration

Today is a very special day in Pencilnalia (If you get that reference, thank you. You're the reason we're here in the first place.). March 20, 2015 marks the start of Pencils.com's 20th year in existence and we're ready to celebrate. "How?"…

Alan Turing’s Lost Notebook (And Other Million Dollar Notebooks)

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Alan Turing, the mathematician that founded computer science and broke Germany’s “Enigma” code to help win WWII, was recently immortalized by the Oscar-winning film The Imitation Game.  His story, once unheard-of outside of the world…
Pencil Artist Arunava Bid

Pencil Artist of the Week: Arunava Bid

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This week’s featured pencil artist is Arunava Bid, a pencil artist from India who recently entered into the world of hyper-realistic pencil art. He posted his first hyper-realistic pencil drawing, titled “Prayer of an old man,” in July…
Dot-Grid Paper

Types of Paper Prints and Their Uses

You may be familiar with different weights and textures of paper, but what about different paper prints? Each paper type has a different set strengths and weaknesses that makes it ideal for different purposes. Read on to learn more... College-Ruled…

The Best Wood for Pencils

We've talked before about the different materials used to make pencils, and how to identify the material your pencil is made from. But what makes a wood good for making pencils? Let's take a look at the two most popular woods used to make pencils:…

A Look Inside the New Blackwing Packaging

Today, Palomino began shipping Blackwing pencils in their redesigned packaging, and that means we get to start shipping the new boxes to you! The new design signals a departure from the folding, carton-style box that has been used since the…
Pencil Artist Kamila Hyzova

Pencil Artist of the Week: Kamila Hyzova

This week’s featured artist is Kamila Hyzova, an art student from the Czech Republic who is studying to be an art teacher. Kamila works primarily with pens, but she does inject some color into her drawings using Koh-I-Noor color pencils. “I…