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Pencil Artist of the Week: Armalitire

This week’s featured artist is Armalitire, a pencil artist and digital artist from the United States. Armalitire’s DeviantArt gallery is filled with characters of her own design, each with a unique look, name and backstory. Many of her drawings…
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…
How Pencil Sharpeners Work

10 Little-Known Pencil Facts

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I write a piece of trivia on my whiteboard at work every morning. It started as a way to lure visitors to my remote cubicle without bankrupting me the way a candy bowl would. Then I moved closer to the rest of my department, and everyone looks…
China Lead Poisoning

Pencils Slandered in Lead Poisoning Case

Hunan province’s local chemical plant wants the world to think that something is in our children’s pencils. Over 300 children in the Chinese province have tested positive for high levels of lead in their bloodstreams, Salon reported last…

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