pencils
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Wooden Vases Show Pencils Have Other Artistic Uses Than Just Drawings
Grade school is an opportunity for budding artists to finally shed their cumbersome crayons and try their hand at making a masterpiece using the subtle shades of a box of coloured pencils. But artist Tuomas Markun Poika must’ve missed that class, since he instead uses pencils to create wooden vases with unique patterns made possible…
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These Colour Pencils Are Actually A Colour Drawing
This is not a photo of a box of colour pencils. It’s a digital drawing made from scratch in Photoshop. I wish the artist actually used colour pencils to make it — because I love when things come full circle — but I’m equally impressed with his digital brush skills.
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Pencils Are Even More Deadly When They’re Actually Steel Nails
The thing I appreciate about The Slingshot Channel is that it always brings projects two or three iterations past what I would ever think to pursue. The pencil shooter Joerg made last week was more of a curiosity. Not the most deadly thing we’ve seen by a long shot. See what I did there?
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Bottle Cap Pencil Sharpener Is Genius
If you prefer the feel of writing or sketching with a freshly sharpened pencil and are fastidious about keeping hydrated, this clever piece of synergy is going to blow your mind. Designed for use on standard plastic water bottles, this pencil sharpening bottle cap is a brilliantly obvious way to deal with pencil shavings.