Art products

Derwent - Producer of excelent pencils, in different sorts from watercolours to pastels, in a wide range of colours

Bruynzeel - Dutch pencil manufacturer, offers a range of products for kids and artists.

Lefranc et Bourgeois - Manufactor of many art products, under which Conté à Paris, a professional range of graphite products. The site provides a lot of additional information too, worth a visit

Image hosts

ImageShack - You can add place images here up to 1Mb, you don't need to sign up, but when you do, you can manage your images afterwards. Good host.

Picturehost - You have to sign up with your e-mail address here to upload images.

PicServer - You have to sign up with your e-mail address here to upload images.

Internet guides

Craft Site Directory - Directory site to all kinds of craft and art sites, also you can submit to the arts and crafts newsletter for free

Pencil Drawing

The Color Pencil Challenge - Contains very nice lessons, you can browse beautiful colour pencil artwork, and when you have colour pencil related questions, you can use the forum. Really worth a visit!

Scribble Talk - Forum for pencil artists

Drawsketch - This is an About.com page. It's loaded with good lessons on various subjects (about drawing of course :D). There is also a forum where you can ask for help, or opinions on your work. A valuable resource for all pencil artists!

Pencil Artists - A pencil community, wich has it's own webring, a mailing list, a forum, galleries and more. Worth a visit.

Artist site

Picturedraw - Portret drawing for sell, and tutorials on how to draw figures. Also a lot of drawings are include on this site

Mini gallery - Gallery with various artists, styles, mediums, subject, ect. On this site artists sale their products.

Shela Nye - Site of animal and portret artist with besides paintings, some very nice pastel and graphite drawings

Howard David Johnson Illustrator - beautifull and extremely detailed and realistic work. You must check out his site, even if you don't like the style at all.

Information about pencils

pencils.com - General information about pencils.

The Pencil Pages - This is a great site with loads of information about pencils. "The World's Most Comprehensive On-line Resource for Pencil-Related Information....", as described on the main page.

Museum/galleries

Cumberland Pencil Museum - Pencil meseum of Cumberland. The first pencils where made in this place, and you can learn about the history of the pencil at this museum. Also they have exhibitions.

Tutorials

Portrait Artist - If you're interested in portrait drawing, you must visit this site! It contains very good quality tutorials, very well illustrated. Definitely worth a visit!