Find the Pencil
by #1 Bronco Fan

Comment:
OK... I found it, now what?

Graphite Shadow
by vitsmak

Comment:
Neat... almost missed the hand drawn shadow!

dry with two olives please
by TerryGee

Comment:
byoootiful colour... pencil only plays a bit part, but good for 8!

A Pencil Star
by rocco22

Comment:
If only the colour would JUMP! Maybe a tighter crop... ? Opinions... opinions! ;)

My true Love
by Baldur

Comment:
But its a pen... !

Self-portrait with pencil
by GinaRothfels

Comment:
nice drawing... very expressive line useage... oh this is about the photo!

How Those Little Golf Pencils Are Made
by Bob

Comment:
6 for the cutesy factor!

Tufted Titmouse
by pnicholls

Comment:
Nice crisp shot

One #2 pencil 17,643 chickens
by boyte1

Comment:
Bizarre! yay for you!

Blacksheep
by whobee

Comment:
Thanks for the great comments...

Some of you ask how I did this... so here goes.

First, the red pencil was laid on a 10mm sheet of tempered glass above the blue pencils. The glass had a slight blue hue to it, giving the image the blueish gradient.

Second, to give the blue pencils a faded effect, I varied the exposure across the length of the pencils by creating a "shutter" with a sheet of paper. After releasing the camera shutter, I would quickly remove the sheet of paper... quite tricky when dealing with a max. shutter speed of 1/8!