NGUYEN TANG THANH LE DINH TOAN DOAN ANH DUY CAO HOANG DUC DANG TRAN CHI TOAN

You can use pencils for writing, and drawing. Have you ever thought about what else can pencils be used for?

Do you believe in those amazing artistic works that are made from pencils?

PENCIL CARVING
Pencil carving is to carve in a pencils
graphite core to create specific pictures

BRIEF INTRODUCTION
A pencil which is mainly made from woods and graphite, and
very familiar to all of us everyday can become beautiful artistic work

With simple tools such as knives, one can create many pencilcarved works that can be a sweet gifts for their friends and even sophisticated statues of dragons, cartoon characters or a whole picture.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION
However, it was still not popular in Vietnam
until recently pencil carving has drawn huge attentions from young people and some of them have pioneered to practice this new kind of art with many amazing works.

Brazilian sculptors Dalton Ghetti is very

well-known for pencil carving

In Danang, a math teacher named DUONG

Van Kien has reached certain success in this kind of art, and many young people have started to follow this trend

SOME SORTS OF PENCIL-CARVED WORKS Carve writings out of pencil graphite (the simplest)

MAKING STATUES OUT OF PENCIL GRAPHITE

GENERAL PROCESS OF PENCIL CARVING

Pencil carving requires sculptors a lot of work and patience

Make a sculpture design in pencil graphite Use paper-knife to carve along the sculpture design Depending on the skillfulness of sculptors and the
complication of the work, it takes from a few days to years to finish a pencil-carved work

PROCEDURE
How to carve a pencil?

PREPARATION
Paper knife. CONTE pencil made in
France, with green outer shell and soft core.

Nail varnish or 502 adhesive.

CARVING STEP 1
Write onto the paper the words that you need to carve on the pencil, determine the width of each letter, usually the width will range from 6 mm to 1 cm.

CARVING STEP 2
Make the background.

CARVING STEP 3
Carving the letters onto the background.

CARVING STEP 4
After carving, apply the varnish or the 502 adhesive on the carved words.

PRODUCT INFORMATION
This type of products can be sold as gifts, souvenirs,
house decorating accessories

PRODUCT INFORMATION
Price: 20,000 VND (with simple designs) and the
price can flexibly vary from 50,000 to 500,000 VND depending on the complexity of each product.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ORIENTATION

Not only stop at making and selling these products at a small scale, we plan to start a business with the following strategy: In the very first year:

Open shop Sell products to individuals to seek a fame

Exploit personal relationships (friends, colleagues, relatives, )

Make a good use of Internet-based social networks like Facebook,
Twitter, Yahoo,

Use many popular websites to advertise the products and receive

order by emails

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ORIENTATION

In the upcoming year:

Adopt wholesale to sell products to customers with an order of a

large number

Diversify the products Expand the market to other cities, even to foreign markets (at
first only the countries in the region such as Laos, Cambodia & Thailand)

Co-operate with Tourism Companies to advertise the products Motivate marketing process

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