When I was little, my favorite activity was reading the Sunday morning comics with my dad. In fact, I'm pretty sure I can thank Peanuts for a large percentage of my literacy. Comics are still an important part of my life - in fact, my dad saves…
This week’s featured pencil artist is Danielle Trudeau, a pencil artist living in Manitoba, Canada. We first discovered Danielle’s artwork on her DeviantArt profile, which is loaded with all sorts of awesome drawings. Danielle is still a…
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Have you ever been in the situation where you start doodling a popular character for fun, but with no point of reference you realize you aren’t quite sure what the character looks like? Does Mickey Mouse wear suspenders? Does Porky Pigs have…
This week’s featured pencil artist is Rob Hassan, a freelance artist and pencil artist living in the Chicago area who goes by the handle “GraphixRob.” Rob is an artist who is skilled in a number of different art forms, as the brief biography…
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Why Cursive Handwriting is Still Relevant
If you read my Scantron article, you may remember that the increasing use of technology in classrooms was threatening to edge out the old way of test-taking. This week, technology takes on a new opponent…
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Creativity is often born out of the ashes of tragedy. Modernism took its form in the wake of World War I, the Beat Generation in the shadow of the Bomb, so it comes as no surprise that the tragedies of the past 15 years have inspired art as…
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This week’s featured pencil artist is Monica Bouman, a pencil artist from the Netherlands. Monica taught drawing and painting to primary school students for a number of years before being inspired to create her own original pencil works, and…
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If you’re an active Pencils.com reader, you know that we frequently advise keeping a thought notebook or journal around to keep track of daily activities and ideas, and we do so with good reason. Research has indicated that keeping a notebook…
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Remember meeting people in college? You'd always ask/get asked the Big Three: 1. Where are you from? 2. What dorm are you in? 3. What's your major? Nothing said more about you - for better or worse - than the answer to #3. I spent four years…
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Over the weekend, CBS News and their weekend morning series Sunday Morning ran a segment about pencils and our favorite pencil sharpener. No, I’m not talking about the Blackwing long point sharpener, I’m talking about artisanal pencil sharpener…
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Five Awesomely Hilarious Webcomics
ARTPencil Artist of the Week: Danielle Trudeau
Pencil Artist of the WeekBad Toon Rising: Creating Cartoon Characters from Memory
ARTPencil Artist of the Week: Rob Hassan (GraphixRob)
Pencil Artist of the WeekIn Defense of Keeping Cursive in the Classroom
Pencil NewsThe Art Inspired by September 11th, 2001
ARTPencil Artist of the Week: Monica Bouman
Pencil Artist of the WeekSix Famous Notebook Users
Pencil News10 Things Only An English Major Will Understand
TV, FILM & BOOKSDavid Rees and Musgrave Pencils on CBS Morning
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