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Pencil Facts: How Erasers Work

We know pencils work thanks to graphite molecules breaking off and catching onto the fibers of paper.  Today, we’re going to figure out how erasers work to remove those bits of graphite when you make a mistake.  As it turns out, erasers…
Pencil Artist Lysaena

Pencil Artist of the Week: Lysaena (JelLysefish)

This week’s featured artist is Lysaena, a pencil artist from France who is studying at the EMCA animation school. Once she graduates, Lysaena hopes to attend ENJMIN, a school dedicated to video game and other interactive digital arts. Lysaena…

Pencil Patents: John Lee Love’s Portable Pencil Sharpener

Before 1894, pencils sharpeners were massive: Source OK, they weren't all that big, but the only pencil sharpener available was the rotary blade sharpener, a pencil sharpener using the same mechanism as that old hand crank sharpener mounted…
Pencil Artist TIffany Turrill

Pencil Artist of the Week: Tiffany Turrill

This week’s featured artist is Tiffany Turrill, a pencil artist, freelance illustrator and video game concept artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tiffany creates drawings that feature character, creature and environmental…
Pencil Artist Nikolaj Djatschenko

Pencil Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Djatschenko

This week’s featured artist is Nikolaj Djatschenko, a pencil artist who creates surreal pencil drawings of historic icons, classic fairytales and characters of his own design. Nikolaj uses Faber-Castell pencils and Faber-Castell ink markers…

Blackwing Volumes – Vol. 725 – The Sunburst Pencil

Yesterday, Palomino announced the first Volumes limited edition Blackwing pencil, Vol. 725., exclusively to subscribers of the Volumes program. Today, it's available to non-subscribers, and we have it here on Pencils.com. Below is an excerpt…
Pencil Artist Jana Heidersdorf

Pencil Artist of the Week: Jana Heidersdorf

This week’s featured artist is Jana, a pencil artist and illustration student from Germany. Jana creates macabre drawings using a combination of analog and digital tools. Jana was kind enough to give us some insight into her creative process. “For…
Chelsea MFG Co. Blade Sharpener

Vintage Pencil Sharpeners In All Their Glory

Vintage pencil sharpeners are exciting.  Though I never thought I would make that statement, it’s true – old pencil sharpeners vary from sleek and fancy to wild and zany in their designs. Panasonic Pana-Point KP-22A This 1970s pencil…
Pencil Artist Stephen van den Burg

Pencil Artist of the Week: Stephan van den Burg

This week’s featured artist is Stephan van den Burg, a pencil artist from the Netherlands who creates non-traditional drawings in a style that is completely his own. And the best part? He creates them entirely out of graphite. Stephan worked…