tom lynall carves miniature emojis and icons from colored pencil tips

tom lynall carves miniature emojis and icons from colored pencil tips
all images courtesy of tom lynall

birmingham-based jewelry designer tom lynall has veered from his wearable art making practice to focus on a unique brand of miniature craftsmanship: pencil carvings. etched and sketched into the tip of colored and lead pencils are tiny characters, creatures and landscapes — one example even sees a series of pacman figures lining an interior crevice carved into the side of a standard writing tool. lynall carefully carves and paints the minuscule figurines — most recently a smiling stack of emojis — and places them onto the very edge of a pencil, leaving nearby an x-acto blade or coin to give viewers a sense of their near-microscopic scale. 

a line of pacman figures are etched into a carved crevice in the side of the pencil 

a tiny instagram logo is made on the tip of a blue colored pencil 

two intersecting lighting bolts are secured onto the surface of a pink pencil 

a tiny smiling character is placed on the surface of the pencil 

a tiny heart is carved at the tip of the red writing tool 

a miniature artist’s palette sculpture is set atop a blue colored pencil 

a tiny landscape is carved into the surface of the pencil