Keeping a Road Trip Journal
Over at Timberlines, WoodChuck has posted an entry discussing his experience with one of our Journals Unlimited Road Trip journals. Journals Unlimited journals, which are made in the USA using soy-based inks, come…
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This week’s featured pencil artist is Nick Williams, an artist living in the United Kingdom. After spending a considerable amount of time exploring and admiring the works of artists on DeviantArt.com, Nick decided to take up drawing and contribute…
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This week's featured pencil artist is Dino Tomic, a tattoo artist, traditional painter, digital painter, and pencil artist living in Norway. Though his passion is his tattoo art (which is amazing, by the way), it was his color pencil portraits…
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Drawing & Communication
Art as a form of communication and self-expression is nothing new, but it takes on a whole new level of importance when we consider the way that children use drawing. As a child, Garrett was diagnosed with autism.…
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Last week, legendary songwriter and artist Guy Clark released his first studio album in four years. The album features eleven new tracks, ten of which were written by Clark along with a group of Nashville A-Listers, including Rodney Crowell,…
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I can appreciate a good photograph or a digital art piece on a record cover as much as the next audiophile, but there’s something extra special about album artwork that’s illustrated by hand. Here are five brilliantly sketched album covers…
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Songs find their way into literary masterpieces often times, adding context, capturing the mood of the story, allowing the reader to enjoy an external frame of reference grounded in the real world. I love discovering new music via literature,…
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This week’s featured pencil artist is David Bulle, a cartoonist, sculptor and comic artist living in Nancy, France. The subjects of David’s works are often gargoyles, golems, and other fantastical creatures from his imagination, but he has…
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3D sketches take the art of drawing to a whole new level (pun definitely intended). Artists like Alessandro, Ramon Bruin, and Fredo create mind-blowing 3D drawings that appear to jump right off the page through a combination of shading techniques…
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With a keyboard or touchscreen within reach at any given moment, handwriting is becoming something of a lost art. There are some aspects of handwriting, however, that other writing methods can never replicate or replace. Here are seven reasons…
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Timberlines: Keeping a Road Trip Journal
Pencil NewsPencil Artist of the Week: Nick Williams
Pencil Artist of the WeekPencil Artist of the Week: Dino Tomic
Pencil Artist of the WeekConnect the Dots: Exploring the Link Between Drawing & Communication
ARTInterviews with Guy Clark
MUSIC, Pencil NewsThe Best of: Hand-Drawn Album Art
MUSICSongs from Literary Masterpieces [Video]
TV, FILM & BOOKSPencil Artist of the Week: David Bulle
Pencil Artist of the Week3D Drawing Tips to Make Your Work Jump Off the Page
ART, Drawing LessonsThe Perks of Handwriting: 7 Reasons Every Writer Should Write by Hand
TV, FILM & BOOKS