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Author Archive for: Alexander_P

Entries by Alexander Poirier

Pencil Artist of the Week: Jake Sumbing

This week’s featured artist is Jake Sumbing, a graphite and ink artist from the Philippines who creates comic spreads for some of his favorite characters. Jake uses graphite and ink (the usual suspects) to create his drawings, but the method he delivers them onto the page is a bit out of the ordinary. Instead of […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Martin Ohlsson

This week’s featured artist is Martin Ohlsson, a pencil and ink artist from Sweden who creates delightfully ghoulish drawings using a combination of ink, graphite, charcoal and pastels. Unlike many pencil artists, Martin’s drawings often lack hard lines and focused detail. Instead, his drawings feature a hazy structure as ephemeral as the subjects depicted. That […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Sandrine Sakkalis

This week’s featured artist is Sandrine Sakkalis, a pencil artist living in Brussels, Belgium who creates graphite, wax and water color pencil drawings. Sandrine describes her style as “set between surreal and fantasy,” and her subjects range from celebrities to characters and creatures of her own creation. Sandrine draws to “bring emotions, smiles, tears” to […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Andrea Urosevic

This week’s featured artist is Andrea Urosevic, a pencil artist from Serbia who creates graphite pencil drawings in a number styles and with a wide assortment of tools. Her drawings range from simple doodles to extremely detailed sketches and she claims she will “draw/paint with everything [she] get[s] [her] hands on.” Andrea uses Koh-I-Noor, Staedler, […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Oleshnikova Anastasia

This week’s featured artist is Oleshnikova Anastasia, a pencil artist from St. Petersburg, Russia who creates drawings of motorcycle stunt riders. Oleshnikova’s style is inspired by Makoto Endo, a Japanese artist who draws and paints with chopsticks, but she uses more traditional tools to create her drawings. Oleshnikova uses Koh-I-Noor graphite pencils ranging from 2B […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Corrina Thurston

This week’s featured artist is Corrina Thurston, a pencil artist from the United States who creates drawings using color, graphite and charcoal pencils. Corrina turned to drawing as a constructive outlet after she began suffering from the symptoms of Chronic Epstein-Barr virus in 2010. Since then, she has developed into a pencil artist with a […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Kolobok1969

This week’s featured artist is Kolobok1969, a pencil artist and painter from Canada who creates paintings and drawings of subjects pulled from mythology and world religions. Kolobok’s drawings feature elements of surrealism but, unlike many surreal drawings, his drawings are filled with an astounding amount of detail.  Kolobok uses Staedtler Mars Lumograph pencils ranging from […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Wilfrid Barbier

This week’s featured artist is Wilfrid Barbier, a pencil artist from Canada who creates color pencil drawings based on photographs taken during his travels. Each drawing in Wilfrid’s gallery features a short caption describing the subject depicted and when/how the original photograph was taken. These captions give a bit of insight into the artist’s creative […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Inga Mrazauskaite

This week’s featured artist is Inga Mrazauskaite, a pencil artist from Lithuania. Inga works primarily with oils, but she has been known to pick up a pencil from time to time. Inga’s drawings and paintings feature an abstract and surreal style that calls back to the futurists and surrealists of the early 20th century. In […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Patrick Honnen

This week’s featured artist is Patrick Honnen, a pencil and ink artist from Germany. Patrick is an industrial product designer by trade, but he has a passion for creating surreal monochrome drawings. Patrick shared his tools of choice with us: “For my drawings I use black fineliners and felt pens of Stabilo. If I want […]