Pencil Artist of the Week: David Sirkoski

This week’s featured pencil artist is David Sirkoski, a pencil artist from Belgrade, Serbia who starts his drawings with traditional tools and finishes them on a computer. His DeviantArt gallery is filled with wondrous characters, landscapes and environments of his own design, and he has some awesome tips for artists looking to merge the analog and digital worlds to create their art:

“I’m mostly using Faber-Castell Goldfaber pencils 2B to 5B, Staedler MARS leads (6B) and a Faber-Castell art eraser. In addition to that I’m using a Faber-Castel Blue watercolour pencil which gives me the option to make it invisible after scanning an inked drawing. I have been using different kinds of paper in the past, ranging from kraft paper to pastel paper, [but I’ve been] streamlining my process back to standard A4 copy paper. All this before scanning and digitally painting.

A majority of my work is finished using [a] Wacom Bamboo tablet and Photoshop.”

Many of David’s drawings feature a style that is fluid and kinetic. You can see the flow of his stylus in these finished digital pieces, adding a sense of movement that wouldn’t otherwise be present. Other drawings, however, feature a comic-esque style that features blocks of static color and heavy shadows. The two styles contrast each other quite nicely, and show off the breadth of David’s talents.

Drawings by David Sikoski

If you’d like to see more of David’s work, you can check out his DeviantArt profile here.

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