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Pencil Artist of the Week: Danielle Trudeau

This week’s featured pencil artist is Danielle Trudeau, a pencil artist living in Manitoba, Canada. We first discovered Danielle’s artwork on her DeviantArt profile, which is loaded with all sorts of awesome drawings. Danielle is still a…
Pencil Artist Monica Bouman

Pencil Artist of the Week: Monica Bouman

This week’s featured pencil artist is Monica Bouman, a pencil artist from the Netherlands. Monica taught drawing and painting to primary school students for a number of years before being inspired to create her own original pencil works, and…
Pencil Artist Jude Robinson

Pencil Artist of the Week: Jude Robinson

This week’s featured pencil artist is Jude Robinson, a painter, pencil artist, and all around inspirational person we discovered through Twitter. Jude has always had an interest in the arts, but it seemed the universe had different ideas: “In…
Tiny Pencil

Tiny Pencil: A Zine Dedicated to All Things Graphite

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For all of the lead lovers here at Studio 602, there’s a new biannual zine on the rise that specializes in art created exclusively using pencils.  The zine is called Tiny Pencil, and it’s put together lovingly by graphite enthusiasts Amber…
Pencil Artist Adonna Khare

Pencil Artist of the Week: Adonna Khare

This week’s featured artist is Adonna Khare, a pencil artist living in Burbank, California. Adonna creates large-scale pencil drawings depicting fantastically realized animals in fantastically absurd situations; sipping tea, supporting trees…
Pencil Artist Nicole Fekaris

Pencil Artist of the Week: Nicole Fekaris

This week’s featured pencil artist is Nicole Fekaris, a self-taught pencil artist and mirror writer living in West Virginia. She is a lifetime member of EBSQ, a group that provides its community of artists, artisans and photographers with…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Steve Mills

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This week's featured pencil artist is Steve Mills, an artist, photographer, guitarist and songwriter living in Hermiston, Oregon who spends his time "being creative 24/7."  Steve's realistic pencil portraits capture the essence of his subjects…

Drawing Lessons: It All Starts With A Mark

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In this entry into Diane Wright's drawing lessons, Diane explores the different types of marks you can make using a pencil. The anticipation of making that first mark on a blank sheet of paper for me is exciting.  Each mark builds upon the…

Get the Lead Out: How to Clean Graphite Stains

Here at Pencils.com, we use pencils on a daily basis (obviously!). One of the best things about using a pencil is the fact that you can always erase your mistakes, but when your pencil’s graphite ends up on something other than your paper,…
Pencil Artist Lissa Rachelle

Pencil Artist of the Week: Lissa Rachelle

This week’s featured pencil artist is Lissa Rachelle, a third-generation artist born and raised in Ottawa, Canada. Lissa works with both color pencils and graphite, using the strengths of both mediums to create captivating pencil creations. Lissa’s…