Pencil Artist of the Week: Jana Heidersdorf

This week’s featured artist is Jana, a pencil artist and illustration student from Germany. Jana creates macabre drawings using a combination of analog and digital tools. Jana was kind enough to give us some insight into her creative process.

“For my ‘clean’ drawings I use Faber-Castell graphite pencils (3B-8B) and a Derwent charcoal pencil. The colour is added digitally.

For my messier, more painterly works I add whatever black acrylics are at hand, gesso, black and white charcoal and graphite powder.”

Jana’s “messy” and “clean” drawings both feature a style that is equal parts uncanny and unsettling (something I love). Her clean drawings feature vibrant digital colors on top of crisp pencil lines. Her subjects for these drawings include porcelain hearts and rope ribcages that are unsettling despite (or perhaps because of) their precision. Her messy drawings feature ghastly subjects drawn using imprecise lines and shades of gray and red.

Drawings by Pencil Artist Jana Heidersdorf

If you’d like to see more of Jana’s drawings, you can check out her DeviantArt gallery here and her website here.

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