This week’s featured pencil artist is Rob Hassan, a freelance artist and pencil artist living in the Chicago area who goes by the handle “GraphixRob.” Rob is an artist who is skilled in a number of different art forms, as the brief biography below can attest, but it was his skill as a pencil artist […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Monica Bouman, a pencil artist from the Netherlands. Monica taught drawing and painting to primary school students for a number of years before being inspired to create her own original pencil works, and she has been creating gorgeous color pencil drawings ever since. Monica creates all of her drawings […]
Over the weekend, CBS News and their weekend morning series Sunday Morning ran a segment about pencils and our favorite pencil sharpener. No, I’m not talking about the Blackwing long point sharpener, I’m talking about artisanal pencil sharpener David Rees. The piece features David Rees discussing his pencil sharpening trade with fellow humorist Mo Rocca […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Lynn Spoor, a painter and pencil artist from the Netherlands who creates pencil portraits that are so realistic, you’d swear they were photographs. Lynn was an artist at an early age, drawing and painting on anything and everything she could get her hands on. She started with the walls […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Jude Robinson, a painter, pencil artist, and all around inspirational person we discovered through Twitter. Jude has always had an interest in the arts, but it seemed the universe had different ideas: “In high school, art was my favourite subject and I was always inspired by the enthusiasm of […]
Never Make Your Own Pencils – watch more funny videos A few days ago, Funny or Die posted an awesomely hilarious video titled “Never Make Your Own Pencils.” The video is “a cautionary tale about pencil making” that tells the tragic story of a man who sets out to make his own pencils. I mean, […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is James W. Fry, an illustrator, comic penciler, and storyboard artist living in New York City. We met James at this year’s National Stationery Show, where he stopped by our booth and chatted with us about pencils, comics, and the comic industry as a whole. While he was sharing his […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Marcus Collar, a comic penciler and incredibly talented pencil artist living in Napa, CA. We met Marcus at this year’s Stockton-Con, where he was exhibiting his work and promoting his upcoming series with CCP Comics. Marcus’ portfolio contains drawings of pop-culture icons, nostalgic tributes to the 1980s and characters […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Nick Williams, an artist living in the United Kingdom. After spending a considerable amount of time exploring and admiring the works of artists on DeviantArt.com, Nick decided to take up drawing and contribute some works of his own. In 2011, he completed his first serious drawing in over 25 […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Dino Tomic, a tattoo artist, traditional painter, digital painter, and pencil artist living in Norway. Though his passion is his tattoo art (which is amazing, by the way), it was his color pencil portraits that grabbed my attention. Dino creates color pencil portraits that are so lifelike and vibrant, you […]
