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Building a Matchbox Microphone Using Pencil Graphite

Lifehacker recently posted this video uploaded by video blogger DaveHax that shows us how to make a simple matchbox microphone out of a few pencils, a matchbox and, well, little else. How a Microphone Works Microphones have little diaphragms…
Beginning Artist Mistakes to Avoid

10 Mistakes All Beginning Artists Make

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We all make mistakes, especially when we're learning something new. Below are ten of the most common mistakes beginning artists make, and what you can do to avoid them. 1. Using a pencil that's too hard The standard number two pencil we…
Pencil Artist Sandrid Navarro

Pencil Artist of the Week: Sandrid Navarro

This week’s featured pencil artist is Sandrid Navarro, a pencil artist from Colombia who creates color pencil drawings of people, animals and more. Sandrid uses a combination of Prismacolor color pencils, Faber-Castell color pencils and Fabriano…
CursiveLogic

An Interview with CursiveLogic’s Linda Shrewsbury

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Let's get this out of the way right off the bat: I love to write things out by hand. Even before I became entrenched in the world of pencils, pens, notebooks and the like, I loved scribbling in the margins of books, writing lists before a vacation…

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