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Introducing the Redesigned Pencils.com

Anyone who has visited Pencils.com in the past few days may have noticed a few changes. We’ve rebuilt the site from the ground up using as many of the Web’s best practices as possible to give you a cleaner design, shorter load times and…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Roos

Pencil Artist of the Week

This week’s featured pencil artist is Roos, a pencil artist and DeviantArt contributor from the Netherlands. Roos has been drawing, painting and creating since she was just a little girl and, as a result of her countless hours of practice,…

Football Art: An Update on Pixar Animator Austin Madison

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Last year, we profiled Pixar animator Austin Madison as one of our 52 weekly featured pencil artists. We noted that along with his impressive body of work for Pixar and his blog Austin Translation, Austin also runs an additional blog designated…

The Napkin Notes Dad and Writing to Connect

Pencil News

Remember when you were little and your mom would leave notes in your lunch box? Me too. So does Emma Callaghan. Every day, her father, Garth, writes a little slice of wisdom on a napkin in Emma's lunch. Known as The Napkin Notes Dad, Garth has…

PENCILS 101: All About Pencils and Why They Matter

The History of Pencils

The Unleaded Pencil

Graphite Grading Scales

How Pencils are Made

Forest Conservation

Pencil Buying Guide

What is a No. 2 Pencil?