In spite of the consumer love affair with high-tech tablets and other digital devices, people are still enthusiastic about making their mark using low-tech, graphite-lead pencils. That gave pencil ...

EVEN in this day and age, pencils still remain the go-to writing implement for primary schools pupils. Artists still love to do sketches with pencils as they see it as a very versatile drawing media ...

The lowly pencil is not an elite or showy artistic medium. It doesn't have oil paint's gravitas, or plaster's endearing gauche. Instead, the pencil is accessible, plebeian and utilitarian. If put in ...