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10 Pencils That Disappeared and Why We Wish They Hadn’t

We’re no strangers to out-of-print pencils.  Many pencils have come and gone over the years – many pencils disappear for good reason.  There are, however, many great pencil models that went out-of-print before their time. (For more information…
Pencil Artist Sara Elena Meloni

Pencil Artist of the Week: Sara Elena Meloni

This week’s featured artist is Sara Elena Meloni, a pencil artist from Italy who creates realistic pencil drawings using a variety of graphite sources. In fact, according to Sarah, she uses “too much graphite,” but I think she uses just…
Bonded Lead

Obscure Pencil Terms and What They Mean

If you’ve spent time lurking through the Pencil Internet, you’ve probably come across some terms that have made you scratch your head. Like most enthusiast scenes, the pencil world is full of obscure pencil terms and jargon that can intimidate…
Pencil Artist David Belli

Pencil Artist of the Week: Davide Belli

This week’s featured artist is Davide Belli, a pencil artist, illustrator and student of comic art living in Milan, Italy. Saturday was Free Comic Book Day in the United States, so I’ve been in a comic book kind of mood lately, and Davide’s…
Nick Sickelton

Interview with Illustrator, Letterer and Art Director Nick Sickelton

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Last month, we launched our 20 Year Celebration commemorating the 20th anniversary of the founding of Pencils.com. To celebrate, we worked with former Pencil Artist of the Week Nick Sickelton to create a timeline chronicling the history of…
Colonial Pencil History

American Pencil History at Sutter’s Fort

I live extremely close to Sutter’s Fort in Sacramento, California so, a few weeks back, my wife and I decided to take a walk over to the fort and brush up on our history. As we walked through it’s mud brick walls, we learned about role the…

How to Score a Baseball Game

Filling out a scorecard by hand allows for a more engaging and personalized baseball experience.  Using each team’s batting lineup and a shorthand code for the defense positions, you can learn how to quickly record a game’s happenings.…

Celebrating Caran d’Ache’s 100th Anniversary

This year marks the 100th anniversary of one of our favorite pencil manufacturers, Caran d’Ache (for an in-depth look at those 100 years, check out the timeline on their site). The company was founded in Geneva in 1915, but didn’t begin…

Pencils.com 20 Year Celebration

Today is a very special day in Pencilnalia (If you get that reference, thank you. You're the reason we're here in the first place.). March 20, 2015 marks the start of Pencils.com's 20th year in existence and we're ready to celebrate. "How?"…
Pencil Artist Arunava Bid

Pencil Artist of the Week: Arunava Bid

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This week’s featured pencil artist is Arunava Bid, a pencil artist from India who recently entered into the world of hyper-realistic pencil art. He posted his first hyper-realistic pencil drawing, titled “Prayer of an old man,” in July…