Awesome Pencil

Artist Tomasz Biernat has incredible penmanship. He specializes in creating hand-drawn logos and illustrations which incorporate detailed lettering and flourishes. In this video, you’ll see how he drew the words “Focus and Practice” with style and precision using a 0.2mm mechanical pencil.

Illustrator DP Truong chose Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow as the subject of a pencil drawing. After he finished the 21 cm (8.26 in) black-and-white portrait, he kept going. Only for the next drawing, he went with a smaller piece of paper. Then he repeated the task over and over until he got down to a 0.2 cm (0.07 in) image.

Artists, doodlers, architects, and anyone else who likes to draw in graphite will love this collapsible 2.0mm mechanical pencil which hides inside of an aluminum tube on your keychain until you need it. Available in pitch black or shiny chrome.

Jeff Gray of Scene3Designs makes all sorts of nifty items by stacking, sanding, and laminating layers of cutoff wood from a skateboard maker. One of our faves is this pencil holder. We’d love to see him make a version that holds tools too.

Joel Daniel Phillips lives in the Tenderloin in San Francisco and creates astounding life-size drawings of his fellow community members from charcoal and graphite, which you can view live at Hashimoto Contemporary from 9/6-9/27/14.

Artist Alessandro Diddi effectively uses light and shadow techniques along with cutouts and folds to create flat pencil illustrations that appear to jump from the page. No 3D glasses required.

Vimeo user qwaqa takes the moving picture game to another level in this amazing pencil-drawn animation filled with lots of talent, lots of running and cameos galore.