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Pencil Artist Wolfgang Burgmayr

Pencil Artist of the Week: Wolfgang Burgmayr

This week’s featured pencil artist is a painter, illustrator and pencil artist from Germany named Wolfgang Burgmayr. Wolfgang enjoys “the challenge of trying different styles and different fields,” and this readiness to experiment with…
/r/pencils

/r/pencils: The Front Page of the (Pencil) Internet

There’s a Subreddit for just about everything these days.  Unsurprisingly, then, /r/pencils is the Subreddit for all the Internet’s fervent pencil hobbyists.  With daily posts and over 500 subscribers, /r/pencils is a lively community. …
Pencil Artist 00rej

Pencil Artist of the Week: 00rej

This week’s featured pencil artist goes by the handle 00rej on DeviantArt. Her DeviantArt profile is shrouded in mystery, containing very little information about the artist, with a half-cropped photo and cryptic quote serving as the only…

The Best Pencil Print Ad Campaigns

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Pencils and print ads go together like peanut butter and jam.  Usually, however, the print is not about the pencils that likely birthed the ads.  Here are our all-time favorite pencil print ad campaigns.  Some of them advertise pencils and…

Derwent Art Prize

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This year marks the second opportunity for pencil artists to compete for the Derwent Art Prize. Artists over the age of 18 from all over the world are invited to submit pieces done in pencil, pastel, graphite, charcoal or colored pencil. The…
Pencil Artist Monika

Pencil Artist of the Week: Monika

This week’s featured pencil artist is Monika, an artist from Poland who creates drawings, sketches and doodles using a combination of graphite and ink tools. Monika’s style is heavily influenced by Japanese animation and Manga, and her drawings…

Pencil and Paper Power Immigration Courts

On April 12, a disastrous hardware failure crippled U.S. immigration courts when the system that maintains the courts' dockets crashed. The system is still not fully functional after six weeks. Immigrants and their family members calling the…

The People, Stories and Ideas Behind Iconic Handwriting

What makes an individual's handwriting stand the test of time? Certainly the document it forms plays a role, but the truly iconic examples have something more to them. Here's a look at some of our favorite iconic handwriting samples and the…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Paul Murray

This week’s featured artist is Paul Murray, a pencil artist and photographer born and raised in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. While studying to become an architectural drafter, Paul decided to pursue his interest in animals and begin his…
Bob Dylan Drawn Blank Series

Bob Dylan’s “Drawn Blank Series”

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For over five decades, Bob Dylan has impacted the political, philosophical, musical and artistic world. The performer has sold more than 110 million albums on his way to becoming one of the most accomplished songwriters in history. Most notably…