Pencil Artist of the Week: Doménique Steverink

This week’s featured artist is Doménique Steverink, a self-taught pencil artist from the Netherlands who creates drawings using a variety of paper and pencil types. She gave us a breakdown of her tools,  including which pencil and paper combinations she uses to create her drawings:

“I make different drawings on different colors of paper and therefore my tools differ. When I am drawing a portrait on black paper I use paper of the brand Daler & Rowney and Faber Castell Polychromos pencils in white, a few shades of grey and black, and of course blending stumps for a smooth looking skin.

When I am drawing a normal graphite portrait I use Daler & Rowney “Bristol” paper. Further, I use Derwent Graphite pencils HB, B, 2B, 4B, 6B. A mechanical pencil .5 mm in HB lead and blending stumps and tissues.

My latest and newest try out was a drawing on Strathmore Toned Gray paper and I’ve used Faber Castell Polychromos in white, lots of different grey pencils and black.”

Doménique’s white on black drawings are absolutely stunning. Many white on black drawings turn out looking like a negative of a traditional drawing because the artist shades the drawing as they would any other, filling the shadows with white pigment rather than graphite. Domenique doesn’t fall into that trap. Instead, she does a sort of reverse shading, using white pigment to accentuate the subject’s highlights.

Drawings by Pencil Artist Doménique Steverink

If you’d like to see more of Doménique’s drawings, including her traditional graphite drawings, you can check out her DeviantArt Gallery here.

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