Pencil Artist of the Week: Martin Ohlsson

This week’s featured artist is Martin Ohlsson, a pencil and ink artist from Sweden who creates delightfully ghoulish drawings using a combination of ink, graphite, charcoal and pastels.

Unlike many pencil artists, Martin’s drawings often lack hard lines and focused detail. Instead, his drawings feature a hazy structure as ephemeral as the subjects depicted.

That isn’t to say Martin is unable to create drawings packed with realistic detail. He proves he can answer that call in his ink drawings. He just chooses not to.

Martin uses a selection of Staedtler graphite pencils ranging from 2B to 6B, a blending stump and kneaded eraser for his graphite drawings. For ink drawings, he uses a Staedtler 0.7mm pointer pen. For his charcoal drawings, he uses vine charcoal and Faber-Castell Pitt charcoal pencils.

Drawings by Martin Ohlsson

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

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