Before 1894, pencils sharpeners were massive:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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,…
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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…
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