I started this one as a minimalistic photo for a local club. Suggesting the members look around the homes for something to shoot as minimalistic. Not too interesting for the UHH so I went a few steps further and finished with the second image.

First image.
Started with the pen & pencil pointing at one another using a small soldering holder devise. The background was some felt I purchased a Walmart. The image was shot using filtered window light only. Shot with a 105 macro lens, .03 sec, f/16, iso 250, on a tripod with wireless trigger, could have used a timer, for the long shutter speed need to keep everything still.

Second image.
1) Background layer
2) Made a copy image layer of the background.
3) Added a white layer between the Background image and the background copy
4) Made a mask for the pen and pencil on the Background Copy layer. When completed you have a white background.
5) Added squiggly lines using a png image I purchased on line. Positioned it for the pencil tip. set the layer to 75% opacity.
6) Added another squiggly line image for the pen. Positioned it toward the pen tip. this image is black so
7) Added a color layer of solid blue. Command click on my pen's squiggly line image then back to blue layer and added a mask. This made the line blue.
8) Didn't like the clean white background so added a paper texture image layer just above the solid white background. This will now be in the layer 3 position.
9) Went to the top layer and then hit command+Option on mac (Alt on PC)+ Shift+E to make a composite of all the layers.
10) Opened up Topaz and added a stylized filter to get the rougher look.
11) Saved and you see the final image

Not saying this image is outstanding by any means just letting photoshop users see steps use to get different results.

Thanks for asking.
I made a blank layer, then hovered over the pen and pencil mask and hit Command click. You will see the marching ants. Then went to top bar hit Select>Modify>Feather>set 1or 2 pixels>OK . Now move over to the blank layer you just made. Go to Edit>Fill>Black. Now go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur>set to about 7, I think, can't remember. Now hit Command T and move this new shadow down to appropriate shadow placement. I set the Opacity to 67%. If it doesn't look right you can move it some more or apply additional Gaussian Blur.