Please write your name with a pencil.

The author of this article is a famous critic.

Pencil

And directly in front of you, you'll see an original copy of A Christmas Carol arguably one of Dickens' most famous books.

Pens and pencils are examples of writing tools.

Brush size

Attach Path

Style Script

I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after.

Your eyes, and then your brain, are collecting all sorts of information about the pencil its size, color, shape, distance, and more.

Pencil size

Writing the user manual

KritaShape Tool

Autowriting!

Isak Dinesen was a pseudonym adopted by Karen Dinesen, a Danish author who wrote Out of Africa.

Chinese Brush

I guess we'd call it medium long division

New paper. Have some pencils.

Yeah? I'm writting

I am of course quoting from a famous essay by Leonard Read, the economist in the 1950s, called I, Pencil in which he wrote about how a pencil came to be made, and how nobody knows even how to make a pencil, because the people who assemble it don't know how to mine graphite, and they don't know how to fell trees and that kind of thing.

Whose pencil is this?

He is a good correspondent.

And wouldn't you just sign your first name?

He's here to work.

I've lost my pencil.

I have lost my pencil.

Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

This is a pencil.

That is a pencil.

I'm sorry I have no pencil to write with.

I'm sorry that I have no pencil to write with.

A bad carpenter quarrels with his tools.

Anyone can make a mistake.

Even Kōbō Daishi's calligraphy is sometimes at fault.

There you go.

I don' t know what to write.

Great Calligraphy!

It's like Michelangelo won't paint.

Put down your pencil.

Whose pencil is this?

How long is this pencil?

Write it in pencil.

Sharpen your pencil.

I need colored pencils.

I need coloured pencils.