Pencil Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Djatschenko

This week’s featured artist is Nikolaj Djatschenko, a pencil artist who creates surreal pencil drawings of historic icons, classic fairytales and characters of his own design.

Nikolaj uses Faber-Castell pencils and Faber-Castell ink markers to create his drawings. His subjects feature soft lines and features, and he makes liberal use of cross-hatch textures to shade his drawings. The textures give his drawings a sculpted, almost chiseled look that seems to be at odds with the soft lines of his subjects. The results, however, are anything but.

Nikolaj’s finished drawings remind me of the gorgeous sculpted characters created by Laika for their stop-motion films.

Drawings by Nikolaj Djatschenko

If you’d like to see more of Nikolaj’s drawings, you can check out his DeviantArt gallery here. You can also like Nikolaj on Facebook or follow him on Behance.

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