This week’s Pencil Artist of the Week is Kelli Swan, award winning pencil artist and owner of Cygnet Graphics. Her black and white pencil drawings feature subjects ranging from dogs and horses to people drawn in stunningly realistic detail, but it’s her interest in and insight into her own creative process that really caught our […]
Just last weekend, the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity launched a shiny new website to help share ideas, create discussions and share the history, philosophy and artwork of Chuck Jones with the world. Studio 602 and Pencils.com couldn’t be more excited to be a part of their efforts to inspire creativity and educate anyone willing […]
Today, Studio 602 is excited to introduce a member of the new generation of Blackwing artists and our latest Blackwing Featured Musician Ted Russell Kamp! Ted Russell Kamp is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer living in Los Angeles, California. He recently started a KickStarter project to help him complete his latest album Night Owl […]
Board Games and the Mobile Gaming Revolution Something has happened to your favorite board games. The next time you’re sitting on a bus, waiting in a doctor’s office or dining in at a restaurant, take a look around. What you’re sure to find is a sight that was once reserved for the pages of science-fiction, […]
This week’s featured pencil artist creates art that is unlike anything we’ve ever seen. His name is David, but he goes by the name of GhostPatrol, and he not only creates art with pencils, he creates art on pencils. Every GhostPatrol original starts as a row of pencils. Once in place, GhostPatrol sands the pencils […]
Are Video Games Art? I’ve been playing video games for as long as I can remember, so when Roger Ebert came out a few years ago and claimed “video games can never be art,” I was one of the many who voiced their objections. Are video games art? The answer is a resounding “yes.” In fact, […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Juan Rivera, an illustrator and graphic designer living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Even though most of his professional work is in the digital medium, he still finds time to sketch, draw and doodle in his sketchbook. The subjects of Juan’s drawings range from robots and bananas, to comic book […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Bonnie Jean Woolger, a sketchbook artist from Decatur, Georgia. She creates a breed of art that consists of images, shapes and patterns layered together to produce what she calls “collage art.” Call it what you like, Bonnie’s work is incredibly creative and a prime example of what great notebook […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is a notebook sketcher and Palomino Blackwing 602 user from New York. Her name is Nikira, and her brand of in-the-moment sketching has the ability to transport you onto the subway, into an apartment in New York or wherever Nikira happens to find herself when she is compelled to draw. […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Nicole Hamilton, a self-taught photographer and pencil artist with a background in graphic design. Nicole started out like most artists, sketching cartoon characters from TV, movies and comic strips in her spare time at school. Unlike many desktop doodlers, however, Nicole took the next step and turned her hobby […]
