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David Rees on CBS Morning

David Rees and Musgrave Pencils on CBS Morning

Over the weekend, CBS News and their weekend morning series Sunday Morning ran a segment about pencils and our favorite pencil sharpener. No, I’m not talking about the Blackwing long point sharpener, I’m talking about artisanal pencil sharpener…
Pencil Artist Lynn Spoor

Pencil Artist of the Week: Lynn Spoor

This week’s featured pencil artist is Lynn Spoor, a painter and pencil artist from the Netherlands who creates pencil portraits that are so realistic, you’d swear they were photographs. Lynn was an artist at an early age, drawing and…
Dark Souls Concept Art

The Best Video Game Concept Art of All Time

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Making a video game with iconic heroes, villains, and level-design is no easy task. That’s why gaming developers often need to draft and redraft their ideas to make sure they’ve settled on the right look and feel.  Thankfully, most gaming…
Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard’s Rules for Writing (And Why He’d Want You to Break Them)

If you loved Get Shorty, have watched 3:10 to Yuma a hundred times, read the Jack Foley books until the covers fell off, or watch Justified religiously, you can thank beloved writer Elmore Leonard. Although Leonard passed away on August 20th,…

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