While video games may be more popular today than they’ve ever been in the past, it’s rare to find games with as strong a community as the Souls series has. People who haven’t played the game but have heard of it know that these games are considered some of the most challenging video games to […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Lamin Martin, a pencil artist and digital illustrator living in Toronto. He is the founder and lead artist at Lamin Illustration & Design, a group that “specializes in creating conceptual fantasy art for film, television, apparel, books and other related merchandise.” Lamin has worked on projects for HBO’s Game […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Thiago, a pencil artist from Brazil who goes by the handle kikodv on DeviantArt. Thiago’s profile features a gallery dedicated to his non-colored originals and a gallery dedicated to their digitally-finished counterparts, giving his followers a look inside his creative process. Thiago creates his original drawings with a selection […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Michela, a pencil artist, t-shirt designer and painter living in Italy. Michela goes by the handle Mikyechelon on DeviantArt and, after browsing through her gallery, it’s apparent that she is extremely skilled in a variety of mediums. Michela’s DeviantArt profile features drawings that range from intensely detailed portraits to […]
The Erasable Podcast is back with their second episode and, unlike the Star Wars prequels, this Episode 2 is pretty awesome. Andy, Tim and Johnny discuss the pencil terms they’ll be using during their podcast episodes, dissect the anatomy of the pencil and issue a challenge for listeners to submit their best pencil puns with […]
This week’s featured pencil artist creates sketches of something very dear to my heart: classic Volkswagen vehicles. And, being that I spent a majority of my Saturday this weekend helping a friend pick out the latest addition to his VW family, this week’s post is particularly well-timed. The artist’s name is Roudy Courser, but he […]
We’re excited. Actually, let me rephrase that. We’re psyched out of our minds. Why, you ask? Let me tell you. Last week saw the introduction of The Erasable Podcast, a podcast dedicated solely to the love of wooden pencils. It’s the first pencil-specific podcast on the Internet, and it features our friends Andy Welfle from Woodclinched, Johnny Gamber from Pencil Revolution and Tim Wasem from The Writing Arsenal, making […]
This week’s featured artist is pencil artist Pablo Damas, a graphic designer, tattoo artist and apparel designer living in Los Angeles, California. Pablo creates works that are raw and expressive, utilizing deep blacks and soft greys to create his unique style. In his sophomore year of high school, Pablo was recommended to the Los Angeles […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Raigo Kannike, a pencil artist living in “middle of nowhere, next to nothing” Estonia. Raigo’s DeviantArt gallery is filled with charcoal drawings, works in progress and notebook doodles, but it was his portrait gallery that caught our attention. Raigo cites Armin Mersmann (a fellow Pencils.com Pencil Artist of the […]
This week’s featured artist is graphite expert and pencil artist Charmaine Ortiz. Charmaine is based in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, where she creates works that push the graphite medium to its breaking point (no pun intended). The following is the work statement Charmaine provides on her website: “I work with graphite and challenge its capabilities […]
