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Outsider Artists: Exploring the Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness

Outsider Artists Much has been published on the link between creativity and mental illness, from scholarly articles to articles in New York Times. What is clear is that mental illness, and other conditions like ADD and Autism, ...


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, ...


Creative Ways to Use Vine

Creative Ways to Use Vine

Twitter acquiredMark Weaver. He’s devoted a lot of time and effort to making a series of Lego Vines. You can see all of his Lego creations on Vine at SFMOMA? No need. Twitter user Adventure Time fame is using Vine to crea...


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Bringing a Musical Dream to Life

Matt Mongomery uses Blackwing pencils to create. And like great creators, he has taken his latest grand idea from his head, put in onto paper, and now he’s ready to bring it to life. Matt is trying to bring together 25 of...


The Blackwing Experience

The Blackwing Experience Comes to the West Coast

Pencils.com Partners with Palomino and the Chuck Jones Center to Bring the Blackwing Experience to Southern California Pencils.com and Studio 602 are excited to announce that we will be teaming up with Palomino and the Chuck Jo...


Standardized Testing

Pencils: The New Standard in Standardized Testing

Pencils: The New Standard in Standardized Testing The room is deathly quiet, except for the ticking of the clock. In front of you, a sealed test packet rests on your desk. Your fingers hover over two freshly-sharpened number tw...


Pencil Artist Scott Wilke

Pencil Artist of the Week: Scott Wilke

This week’s featured pencil artist is Scott Wilke, a color pencil artist, cartoonist and illustrator who was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He creates color pencil portraits of celebrities, athletes, loved ones and ...


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Pencil Sculpture Makes a Point at UNH

UNH Students Create Pencil Sculpture That Mirrors Student Debt We have featured many fantastic pencil artists who create everything from realistic pencil drawings, to tiny sculptures (Dalton Ghetti, Hungarian artist Cerkahegyzo...





 
Pencil Artist of the Week
  • 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, ...
  • Pencil Artist Scott Wilke

    Pencil Artist of the Week: Scott Wilke

    This week’s featured pencil artist is Scott Wilke, a color pencil artist, cartoonist and illustrator who was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He creates color pencil portraits of celebrities, athletes, loved ones and ...
  • 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 her portfolio on EBSQ and purchase prints from
  • Pencil Artist Mohammed Abbagana

    Pencil Artist of the Week: Mohammed Abbagana

    This week’s featured pencil artist is Mohammed Abbagana, a Nigerian artist who has gained a large following
  • Pencil Artist Kelvin Okafor

    Pencil Artist of the Week: Kelvin Okafor

    This week’s featured pencil artist is Kelvin Okafor, a pencil artist based in the UK. Kelvin describes himself as a “passionate penciled artist… highly interested in detail and precision” and, judging by the work he doe...
  • Pencil Artist Liam Chestnutt

    Pencil Artist of the Week: Liam Chestnutt

    This week’s featured pencil artist is Liam Chestnutt, a pencil artist living in Southampton, England. Liam is one of our followers
  • Pencil Artist Mike O'Connell

    Pencil Artist of the Week: Mike O’Connell

    This week’s featured artist is Mike O’Connell, a pencil artist living in a rural village in Staffordshire, UK. Mike has captured images of David Bowie, Jack Nicholson, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards and more in graphite form. On...
  • Pencil Artist Stuart Clark

    Pencil Artist of the Week: Stuart Clark

    This week’s featured pencil artist is Stuart Clark, a pencil artist from the UK who specializes in creating large-scale, life-like, highly-detailed portraits of people and animals. We actually discovered Stuart on our Faceboo...
  • Pencil Artist Ced Nocon

    Pencil Artist of the Week: Ced Nocon

    This week’s featured pencil artist is Ced Nocon, a self-taught comic penciler and inker living in Los Angeles, California. Ced has worked in the comic industry for over 19 years and has had his work published by comic gi...
  • Pencil Artist June Wright Featured Image

    Pencil Artist of the Week: June Wright

    This week’s featured pencil artist isthis one of Alfred Hitchcock is a personal favorite), but it is her color pencil art that really caught our attention. June’s color pencil drawings are incredibly realistic, using colors...
  • Pencil Artist Austin Madison

    Pencil Artist of the Week: Austin Madison

    This week’s featured pencil artist is Austin Madison, an animator working at Pixar and the man behind the animation/drawing blog Austin Translation. Austin graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2006, and he h...
  • Pencil Artist of the Week Julie Popowicz

    Pencil Artist of the Week: Julie Popowicz

    This week’s featured pencil artist is Julie Popowicz, a pencil artist living in Alberta, Canada. Julie was born in Germany (we all know the strong connection between Germany and pencils) and has been drawing for over 30 years...
  • Pencil Artist Katarina Wong

    Pencil Artist of the Week: Katarina Wong

    Pencil Artist Katarina Wong This week’s featured pencil artist is Katarina Wong, a visual artist and curator based in New York City. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in museums ranging from the Bronx Mus...
  • Silver Surfer by Pencil Artist Cory Smith

    Pencil Artist of the Week: Cory Smith

    This week’s featured pencil artist is Cory Smith, a graphite pencil artist and sculptor living in Illinois. When he isn’t out saving the world one convention at a time, Cory draws incredibly realistic and detailed r...
 
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