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The Big Draw Drawing Festival

The Big Draw – The World’s Largest Drawing Festival

One of the things that has made me fall in love with Philadelphia since moving here is all of the festivals. There are festivals celebrating holidays, seasons, neighborhoods - there's even a festival dedicated to bacon. If you have a fondness…
Drawings by Brad Tabar

Pencil Artist of the Week: Brad Tabar

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This week’s featured pencil artist is Brad Tabar, or Dokkalfr if you follow him on DeviantArt. Brad creates pencil drawings that are, in a word, fantastic, in both quality and subject matter. Brad’s DeviantArt gallery is divided into…

Link Between Childhood Drawing and Intelligence

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Researchers at King's College London have found a correlation between childhood drawings at the age of 4 and intelligence. Using what they called the "Draw-a-Child Test," researchers studied 7,752 pairs of identical and non-identical twins.…

The Best Pencil Artists on Instagram

Instagram is filled with talented artists who use it to show off their pencil prowess. Here's a list of some of the best pencil artists on Instagram. Alice Herring, @aliceandtheredherring Alice Herring is a story artist at Dreamworks Animation.…
Faber-Castell Print Ads

The Best Faber-Castell Advertisements

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Over the years, pencil manufacturer Faber-Castell has produced some genuinely inspiring print ads that blur the lines between ad and art.  One of our chosen best pencil print ads was from a Faber-Castell colored pencil campaign. Faber-Castell…
Pencil Street Art

Anonymous Artist Creates Pencil-Inspired Street Art

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An anonymous artist near Stroud, UK is drawing attention to a nearby field by painting its stakes into giant pencils.  This “Banksy-like” street art won the favor of the stakes’ owner, farmer Nick Dart, who had to install the posts upside-down…

The Esteemed Note-Takers That Inspired Field Notes

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Do you remember the rare joy of having class outside? My tenth-grade Biology class cherished our nature walks, which we were allowed to take every so often as long as we took copious notes while our teacher lectured on the local flora and fauna.…

Tips for Shading With Colored Pencils

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One look at my bedspread would be enough to tell you that I love colors - all of the colors, at the same time. In fact, my whole room is pretty colorful. Throughout college I took notes with different colored gel pens, and at work I post my…

Internetopia: How to Draw the Internet

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…
Visual Note Taking

A Guide to Visual Note Taking

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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…