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Drawings by Andrew Joseph

Pencil Artist of the Week: Andrew Joseph

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This week’s featured artist is Andrew Joseph, a pencil artist from Canada who creates highly detailed drawings using a a variety of different tools and techniques. Through creative perspectives, drawing techniques and styles, Andrew’s drawings…

How to Score a Baseball Game

Filling out a scorecard by hand allows for a more engaging and personalized baseball experience.  Using each team’s batting lineup and a shorthand code for the defense positions, you can learn how to quickly record a game’s happenings.…
Drawings by NakuNakuTenshi

Pencil Artist of the Week: NakuNakuTenshi

This week’s featured artist is a pencil artist from Poland who goes by the handle “NakuNakuTenshi” on DeviantArt. NakuNakuTenshi’s gallery is filled with drawings of the Enneagram, a series of nine interconnected character drawings with…

Celebrating Caran d’Ache’s 100th Anniversary

This year marks the 100th anniversary of one of our favorite pencil manufacturers, Caran d’Ache (for an in-depth look at those 100 years, check out the timeline on their site). The company was founded in Geneva in 1915, but didn’t begin…
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…