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Entries by Alexander Poirier

Pencil Artist of the Week: David Bulle

This week’s featured pencil artist is David Bulle, a cartoonist, sculptor and comic artist living in Nancy, France. The subjects of David’s works are often gargoyles, golems, and other fantastical creatures from his imagination, but he has also produced movie posters, film storyboards and concept art, and comics featuring a wide variety of characters. Though […]

Help Comic Artist Neil Dvorak Fund His Easy Pieces Animated Short

Comic artist and former Pencils.com Pencil Artist of the Week Neil Dvorak has launched a Kickstarter campaign with the goal of transforming his Easy Pieces comic series into an animated short. On the project’s Kickstarter page, Neil describes what caused him to want to make the jump from comics to animation: “It’s been a great ride and […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Gemma Gylling

This week’s featured pencil artist is Gemma Gylling, a pencil artist living in Valley Springs, California who specializes in color pencil animal art. An avid traveler, Gemma uses her experiences and the photographs she captures to create captivating pencil art depicting everything from hippopotami and ostriches, to dogs and other pets. Gemma’s passion for animals […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Denis Chernov

This week’s featured pencil artist is Denis Chernov, an artist living and working in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He works in a number of different mediums, including paints and charcoals, but his favorite artistic tool is the graphite pencil, which he uses to create landscapes, portraits, architectural studies, and illustrations with breathtaking skill. Denis describes his tool […]

Blackwing Sessions: Good Music for a Good Cause

Blackwing Sessions Concert to Benefit K-12 Arts and Music Programs Last week, Palomino announced that the third night of the Blackwing Experience at the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity will feature a concert benefiting the Blackwing Foundation. Tickets for the concert went on sale last Thursday, and all funds raised will support innovative K-12 arts […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Paul Harmon

This week’s featured pencil artist is Paul Harmon, a comic artist, doodler and toy maker living in Brooklyn. Paul usually works with nib-tipped pens, but one drawing we found on his Deviant Art profile stood out from the rest. The drawing is a roughly sketched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Unlike most of his drawings, which […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Adonna Khare

This week’s featured artist is Adonna Khare, a pencil artist living in Burbank, California. Adonna creates large-scale pencil drawings depicting fantastically realized animals in fantastically absurd situations; sipping tea, supporting trees with their horns, bathing, etc. Her drawings are often over four feet tall, and filled with enough detail to keep viewers coming back for […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Scott Wilke

This week’s featured pencil artist is Scott Wilke, a color pencil artist, cartoonist and illustrator who was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He creates color pencil portraits of celebrities, athletes, loved ones and strangers using bold colors and a style that calls upon the genres of caricature, cartooning, impressionism and more. Scott was influenced […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Nicole Fekaris

This week’s featured pencil artist is Nicole Fekaris, a self-taught pencil artist and mirror writer living in West Virginia. She is a lifetime member of EBSQ, a group that provides its community of artists, artisans and photographers with the tools they need to self-represent their art. She also creates some of the most compelling and […]

Pencils.com Teams Up With Pencils for Kids

Pencils for Kids: Every Child’s Future Begins with a Pencil Pencils.com is excited to share that we have teamed up with Pencils for Kids, a non-profit organization dedicated to supplying children around the world with desperately needed school supplies. The organization, which was founded in 2005, believes in making a difference in the world by […]