This week’s featured pencil artist is Mohammed Abbagana, a Nigerian artist who has gained a large following on Twitter with his breathtaking pencil art. His Twitter bio states, “My life is all about taking my pencil for a walk and the marks it leaves behind.” It just so happens that Mohammed’s pencil leaves behind marks […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Kelvin Okafor, a pencil artist based in the UK. Kelvin describes himself as a “passionate penciled artist… highly interested in detail and precision” and, judging by the work he does with a pencil, we’d have to say his description is, well, precise. The subjects of Kelvin’s drawings are mostly […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Liam Chestnutt, a pencil artist living in Southampton, England. Liam is one of our followers on Twitter whose pencil art caught our eye after he reached out to us with a pencil question. So, for all of you Twitterers out there, shoot us a tweet if you have any […]
This week’s featured artist is Mike O’Connell, a pencil artist living in a rural village in Staffordshire, UK. Mike has captured images of David Bowie, Jack Nicholson, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards and more in graphite form. On average, each drawing takes anywhere from 18 to 25 hours, but the results of this labor of love […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Stuart Clark, a pencil artist from the UK who specializes in creating large-scale, life-like, highly-detailed portraits of people and animals. We actually discovered Stuart on our Facebook page, where he shared one of his latest portraits of Marilyn Monroe. Stuart has captured everyone from John Lennon to Matt Bellamy […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Ced Nocon, a self-taught comic penciler and inker living in Los Angeles, California. Ced has worked in the comic industry for over 19 years and has had his work published by comic giants like Marvel, DC and Image, as well as several smaller, independent publishers, including Maximum Press and Boom! […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is June Wright, an animator, artist and designer from Dublin, Ireland. She has worked with studios ranging from Fox Animation and Don Bluth Studios, to Warner Bros. and MGM, and has on the feature films Anastasia, All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 and more. When June isn’t working on feature […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Austin Madison, an animator working at Pixar and the man behind the animation/drawing blog Austin Translation. Austin graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2006, and he has already built a portfolio that includes animating on the films Ratatouille, Toy Story 3, Up, and Brave. When Austin isn’t busy […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Julie Popowicz, a pencil artist living in Alberta, Canada. Julie was born in Germany (we all know the strong connection between Germany and pencils) and has been drawing for over 30 years. She experimented with both watercolors and pastels before settling on pencil as her medium of choice, and […]
Pencil Artist Katarina Wong This week’s featured pencil artist is Katarina Wong, a visual artist and curator based in New York City. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in museums ranging from the Bronx Museum in New York to the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, and is currently featured in several collections, including the […]
