Photoshop CC 2017 tutorial showing how to transform photos into the look of soft graphite pencil drawings and how to replace the photos without having to redo the effects. ➤ Get 15% off BORIS FX ...

The Graphite Pencil was discovered before 1565, when a deposit of graphite was discovered near Grey Knotts of Seathwaite in Cumbria, England. The locals being traditional farmers found that it was ...

Some coloured pencils are water soluble - water can be brushed over them to blend colours. Water-soluble pencils are usually softer than ordinary coloured pencils and will go blunt more quickly.

"Lead pencils" achieve the same effect without needing ink. Or, indeed, lead - they actually contain graphite. The idea of graphite on a stick of wood is about 450 years old. The pencil has a ...

Here’s another fun weekend project for the hacker younglings, a musical synthesizer that plays different musical tones based on the resistance of your conductive graphite drawing! Like our ...

The pencil “lead” is actually a mixture of graphite and clay. More clay in the mixture makes the lead harder. A harder lead has a higher number. Pencils are numbered from 1-3 but most people use a ...

Today, graphite has a bewildering range of applications, appearing in everything from pencil leads to electrodes for smelting aluminum. But the newest and perhaps biggest market for graphite is in ...

A batch of graphite has just been delivered to this pencil factory in Germany. Once it’s been thoroughly mixed with clay, it’s ready to go into production, with around 550 pounds of the stuff ...

The “lead” of a pencil is actually made of a substance called graphite which is made of carbon atoms. The picture shows a close-up of one carbon atom. A hydrogen atom has one proton as the nucleus and ...

the Czech company Koh-i-Noor Hardtmuth started making pencils using the best graphite sourced from China. To really sell themselves as the best, they painted their pencils yellow, which is used to ...

Learn more As someone who's been drawing since I could hold a crayon, I've been through my fair share of graphite pencils, sketchbooks, and paint sets. I've tried dozens of different brands over ...