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Pencil Artist Andrea Urosevic

Pencil Artist of the Week: Andrea Urosevic

This week’s featured artist is Andrea Urosevic, a pencil artist from Serbia who creates graphite pencil drawings in a number styles and with a wide assortment of tools. Her drawings range from simple doodles to extremely detailed sketches…
Pencil Artist Wilfrid Barbier

Pencil Artist of the Week: Wilfrid Barbier

This week’s featured artist is Wilfrid Barbier, a pencil artist from Canada who creates color pencil drawings based on photographs taken during his travels. Each drawing in Wilfrid’s gallery features a short caption describing the subject…
Inga Mrazauskaite

Pencil Artist of the Week: Inga Mrazauskaite

This week’s featured artist is Inga Mrazauskaite, a pencil artist from Lithuania. Inga works primarily with oils, but she has been known to pick up a pencil from time to time. Inga’s drawings and paintings feature an abstract and surreal…
Pencil Artist PurrfectDragon

Pencil Artist of the Week: PurrfectDragon

This week’s featured artist is PurrfectDragon, a pencil artist from Germany who creates delightfully simple pencil sketches. Her sketches, which she numbers and posts on her DeviantArt gallery, feature creatures and critters both real and…
Drawings by Asen Iosifov Tasev

Pencil Artist of the Week: Asen Iosifov Tasev

This week’s featured artist is Asen Iosifov Tasev, a pencil artist from Bulgaria who creates stylized portraits using a combination of graphite pencils, watercolor pencils, ink and coffee. Asen graduated from the “St. Kliment Ohridski”…
Pencil Artist Lysaena

Pencil Artist of the Week: Lysaena (JelLysefish)

This week’s featured artist is Lysaena, a pencil artist from France who is studying at the EMCA animation school. Once she graduates, Lysaena hopes to attend ENJMIN, a school dedicated to video game and other interactive digital arts. Lysaena…

Pencil Patents: John Lee Love’s Portable Pencil Sharpener

Before 1894, pencils sharpeners were massive: Source OK, they weren't all that big, but the only pencil sharpener available was the rotary blade sharpener, a pencil sharpener using the same mechanism as that old hand crank sharpener mounted…

Blackwing Volumes – Vol. 725 – The Sunburst Pencil

Yesterday, Palomino announced the first Volumes limited edition Blackwing pencil, Vol. 725., exclusively to subscribers of the Volumes program. Today, it's available to non-subscribers, and we have it here on Pencils.com. Below is an excerpt…
Chelsea MFG Co. Blade Sharpener

Vintage Pencil Sharpeners In All Their Glory

Vintage pencil sharpeners are exciting.  Though I never thought I would make that statement, it’s true – old pencil sharpeners vary from sleek and fancy to wild and zany in their designs. Panasonic Pana-Point KP-22A This 1970s pencil…

Pencil History: J.B. Ostrowski’s Aluminum Ferrule

Here's a bit of pencil history for you: before 1964, Pencil eraser ferrules were made with brass because brass had the appropriate strength to hold a pencil with its eraser. Pencil manufacturers opted for the more expensive brass instead of…