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Pencil Patents: John Lee Love’s Portable Pencil Sharpener

Before 1894, pencils sharpeners were massive: Source OK, they weren't all that big, but the only pencil sharpener available was the rotary blade sharpener, a pencil sharpener using the same mechanism as that old hand crank sharpener mounted…
Pencil Artist TIffany Turrill

Pencil Artist of the Week: Tiffany Turrill

This week’s featured artist is Tiffany Turrill, a pencil artist, freelance illustrator and video game concept artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tiffany creates drawings that feature character, creature and environmental…
Pencil Artist Nikolaj Djatschenko

Pencil Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Djatschenko

This week’s featured artist is Nikolaj Djatschenko, a pencil artist who creates surreal pencil drawings of historic icons, classic fairytales and characters of his own design. Nikolaj uses Faber-Castell pencils and Faber-Castell ink markers…

Blackwing Volumes – Vol. 725 – The Sunburst Pencil

Yesterday, Palomino announced the first Volumes limited edition Blackwing pencil, Vol. 725., exclusively to subscribers of the Volumes program. Today, it's available to non-subscribers, and we have it here on Pencils.com. Below is an excerpt…

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