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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…

Pencil History: J.B. Ostrowski’s Aluminum Ferrule

Here's a bit of pencil history for you: before 1964, Pencil eraser ferrules were made with brass because brass had the appropriate strength to hold a pencil with its eraser. Pencil manufacturers opted for the more expensive brass instead of…
Pencil Artist Anatolij Grebnev

Pencil Artist of the Week: Anatolij Grebnev

This week’s featured pencil artist is Anatolij Grebnev aka Tolik, a “self taught, bearded, animator [and] illustrator” from the Ukraine. Tolik creates whimsical drawings using a wide variety of tools, including Marco graphite pencils,…
Blackwing Volumes Limited Edition Pencils

Blackwing Announces “Volumes” Limited Edition Pencil Program

Yesterday, Blackwing announced "Volumes," a limited edition Blackwing pencil subscription program. Blackwing also informed retailers that each edition will be made available to select retailers once the subscriptions have been sent out and…