Overview
Have you ever wanted to ask a famous artist to create something for you? Thanks to artist Benjamen Redford, you can pledge a dollar and get a piece of custom-tailored immortality on Internetopia.com.
Redford launched his Internetopia…
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This week’s featured artist is Armalitire, a pencil artist and digital artist from the United States. Armalitire’s DeviantArt gallery is filled with characters of her own design, each with a unique look, name and backstory. Many of her drawings…
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Are you a big notebook doodler? Here’s a new note-taking trend that may help you put that creative spirit to a productive use.
Visual note taking is a new method of taking notes that encourages the writer to stray away from traditional…
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I write a piece of trivia on my whiteboard at work every morning. It started as a way to lure visitors to my remote cubicle without bankrupting me the way a candy bowl would. Then I moved closer to the rest of my department, and everyone looks…
Hunan province’s local chemical plant wants the world to think that something is in our children’s pencils. Over 300 children in the Chinese province have tested positive for high levels of lead in their bloodstreams, Salon reported last…
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This week’s featured pencil artist is Bill Boyer, a retired professional artist who worked in the video game industry for the last 17 years. Bill is a self-taught 3D digital artist, but has spent his days in retirement getting back to his…
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At this year’s SXSW, I had the pleasure of meeting Matt Diffee, a cartoonist who is perhaps best known for creating the hilarious doodles found in each issue of the New Yorker. Matt was participating in a discussion titled “Turning a Blank…
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An artist’s materials are essential to their craft. For those that work with drawing mediums – pencil, charcoal, watercolor, ink, pastel – paper is vital to creating of lasting work.
Having trouble finding the right paper for sketch…
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The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) Office of Science User Facility kind of made diamonds out of graphite this past February. In a study entitled “Interlayer Carbon Bond Formation Induced by Hydrogen Adsorption in Few-Layer…
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Our selection of mechanical pencils has grown in recent years (And may be getting some new additions soon. Stay tuned for more on that later.), and we can appreciate the subtleties of the woodcased pencil’s mechanical brethren. So, when…
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Internetopia: How to Draw the Internet
ARTPencil Artist of the Week: Armalitire
Pencil Artist of the WeekA Guide to Visual Note Taking
ART, Pencil News10 Little-Known Pencil Facts
Most Popular, Pencil NewsPencils Slandered in Lead Poisoning Case
Pencil NewsPencil Artist of the Week: Bill Boyer
Pencil Artist of the WeekMatt Diffee’s World Cup Doodle Nails it
ART, Pencil News, SPORTSHow to Choose Your Drawing Paper
Pencil NewsScientists Create Diamonds Out of Graphite. Sort of.
Pencil NewsBoing Boing’s Mechanical Pencil Torture Test
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