# Scultping Pencilpoints.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scultping-pencilpoints/755039>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 17, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scultping-pencilpoints/755039 "2016-05-17T22:27:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scultping-pencilpoints/755039/1 "2016-05-17T22:27:45Z")

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> A man has painstakingly crafted amazing art from the humble pencil. Chien-Chu Lee, 42, has carefully carved minute sculptures into pencil lead

> **[Artist creates sculptures out of pencil lead, in pictures](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/16/artist-creates-sculptures-out-of-pencil-lead-in-pictures/)**

click through all of them.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scultping-pencilpoints/755039/2 "2016-05-18T19:16:13Z")

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That’s incredible. Usually, “pencil art” means sketches.

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**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scultping-pencilpoints/755039/3 "2016-05-18T20:02:53Z")

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That’s pretty amazing, so how about we post more examples of super intricate carvings.

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**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scultping-pencilpoints/755039/4 "2016-05-19T14:09:36Z")

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I’ve seen some of those before. Truly carved by a fellow with a great amount of skill. And good eyesight too.

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**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scultping-pencilpoints/755039/5 "2016-05-19T15:30:38Z")

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I knew a guy in Jr. High School who would do similar things with chalk. For you youngsters, chalk refers to a cylinder of calcium carbonate that was used to mark (of all things) a chalkboard. Teachers used such crude teaching implements in the olden days.

Anyway, this guy would take a straight pin and scrape away to make sculptures. I vividly remember one Easter Island Head he made that I thought was amazing, He also made a car, as well as many other figures. I tried doing one when he showed me how he did it, but I quickly grew bored (read, I wasn’t any good).

In thinking back, I don’t believe either of us understood that the chalk was, in all likelihood, supplied by the teacher and his pilfering the odd piece here and there for his “art” was actually steeling from the teacher.