This week’s featured pencil artist is a self proclaimed “editorial cartoonist with bite.” His name is Ed Hall and he is the weekly cartoonist at the Baker County Press in Macclenny, Florida. He’s also an award winning cartoonist who has been honored by the Florida Press Association and The Society of Professional Journalists, among others, […]
“To all who come to this happy place; welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past…and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and the hard facts that have created America…with the hope that it will be a […]
How Low-Quality Pencils Impact Our Students’ Education There is a crisis facing our classrooms, and it revolves around the seemingly simple pencil. Schools across the country, unaware of the negative effects a poorly made pencil can have on our students’ educations, are choosing to purchase low-quality pencils and place these pencils in the hands of […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Shelby Brannin, a third generation cowboy living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His realistic pencil drawings draw inspiration from the natural beauty that surrounds him at the base of the Sandia mountains and his experiences growing up as a cowboy in the southwest. Shelby’s drawings feature subjects ranging from rodeos and […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is an artist and writer by the name of Laura Lee. She’s worn hats ranging from window display painter to middle school teacher, but it seems she’s found her calling in writing graphic novels. Laura’s first graphic novel, Page by Paige, has recently been nominated for an Eisner Award and […]
Making Amends with Superman This Saturday is the 74th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of Action Comics and the debut of Superman, and I have something I need to get off my chest. I have a problem with Superman. No, it isn’t because of his convoluted mythology or laughable origin story (every superhero […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Lissa Rachelle, a third-generation artist born and raised in Ottawa, Canada. Lissa works with both color pencils and graphite, using the strengths of both mediums to create captivating pencil creations. Lissa’s draws (pun intended) on her husband’s photography to create many of the realistic pencil drawings in her online […]
If there is one word that can sum up the work of this week’s featured pencil artist, it’s “unreal.” Federico Uribe is an artist who lives and works in Miami, Florida, creating pencil sculpture and pencil “paintings” that are beyond classifications. Federico was born in Bogota, Colombia and studied art at the University of Los […]
I met this week’s featured pencil artist at a Dare2Draw event at the Society of Illustrators in New York last month. His name is Jason Quinones, and he is a comic writer, penciler, inker and colorist all rolled into one. Jason attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art and has worked primarily as a […]
Yesterday marked the start of the Electronic Gaming Expo (E3), one of the biggest (if not the biggest) gaming events of the year. Gamers around the world are tuned into their favorite video game website or blog for updates from the show and salivating over the new trailers, release dates and hardware being announced. I […]
