Pencil Artist of the Week: Lysaena (JelLysefish)
This week’s featured artist is Lysaena, a pencil artist from France who is studying at the EMCA animation school. Once she graduates, Lysaena hopes to attend ENJMIN, a school dedicated to video game and other interactive digital arts.
Lysaena creates drawings inspired by the fantasy genre using a combination of mechanical pencils, graphite pencils and digital tools. In fact, she gave us a list of her tools of the trade:
“I often use 0.3 / 0.5 criterium, HB / 4B / 7B graphite pen, and water color or Liquitex acrylics for traditional drawings, and I recently discovered a very useful software called Krita which has very similar brushes to real life pencils, so I can clean my traditional drawings with it!”
Lysaena’s recent drawings feature a style is reminiscent of Yoshitaka Amano, the artist known best for his work on the Final Fantasy video game series. The best way I can describe is that they look painted (and in some cases they may be), giving her subjects a soft, delicate look.
Drawings by Lysaena
If you’d like to see more of Lysaena’s work, you can check out her DeviantArt gallery here. You can also follow her on Facebook, where she posts much more frequently.
What do you think Pencils Blog readers? Do you know someone who should be featured as our Pencil Artist of the Week? Let us know in the comments, or hit us up on Instagram or Twitter @pencilscom!
Nice work. I really like the middle image! Very creative. I’ve been experimenting with pen and watercolor for the last few weeks and I find it highly enjoyable. Most of my artwork is done on sticky notes. I post a new sticky note drawing on my website each day. I would love to use watercolors, but due to the thin paper, I use highlighters as a substitute!