This week’s featured artist is PurrfectDragon, a pencil artist from Germany who creates delightfully simple pencil sketches. Her sketches, which she numbers and posts on her DeviantArt gallery, feature creatures and critters both real and imaginary. PurrfectDragon was kind enough to share her tools of the trade with us: “I use a mechanical pencil from […]
This week’s featured artist is Ari, a pencil artist who goes by the handle Opheliac-Noire on DeviantArt. Her username is a homage to Shakespeare’s Ophelia and Emilie Autumn, a singer-songwriter, poet and violinist who influences her work. “For the colored pieces, I use Faber castell Polychromos, and sometimes Albrecht Dürer (FC watercolour pencils). I often […]
This week’s featured artist is Amy, a pencil artist from Jersey who goes by the handle peanutboota on DeviantArt. Amy primarily works with color pencils, but she has been known to pick up a graphite pencil from time to time: “I use Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils for my coloured pencil drawings, usually on card or cartridge […]
This week’s featured artist is Enys Guerrero, a pencil artist from Venezuela who is influenced by the artists of the Renaissance and Victorian age and inspired “by mythological beings, magic and faerical creatures.” Enys shared her favorite art supplies and why she appreciates a quality tool when she finds it: “I normally use H4 and […]
This week’s featured artist is Asen Iosifov Tasev, a pencil artist from Bulgaria who creates stylized portraits using a combination of graphite pencils, watercolor pencils, ink and coffee. Asen graduated from the “St. Kliment Ohridski” University of Sofia with a bachelor’s degree in the arts. Each of his drawings features a style that is catered […]
This week’s featured artist is Sam Jones, a pencil artist from the UK who creates sketches, drawings and doodles using a combination of analog and digital tools. Sam explained which tools he uses and why, and gave some insight into why he prefers analog over digital in some situations (and vice versa). “I prefer the […]
This week’s featured artist is Ed McNeil, a pencil artist from the United States who creates drawings, sketches and paintings of animals and pop-culture icons. Ed broke down his favorite tools for creating his traditional drawings: “The types of pencils I use are Prismacolor Premier, General’s Charcoals and Derwent Watercolor pencils. I also use Strathmore […]
This week’s featured artist is Jekaterina Dancheva-Ustrikova, a pencil artist from Estonia who creates biological taxonomy drawings of fish, lizards and other wildlife. Jekaterina’s drawings would be right at home in the pages of a naturalist’s field notebook, and her tools are simple but effective. “My tools are usually Derwent Watercolour pencils (I use them […]
This week’s featured artist is Doménique Steverink, a self-taught pencil artist from the Netherlands who creates drawings using a variety of paper and pencil types. She gave us a breakdown of her tools, including which pencil and paper combinations she uses to create her drawings: “I make different drawings on different colors of paper and therefore my tools […]
This week’s featured artist is Lysaena, a pencil artist from France who is studying at the EMCA animation school. Once she graduates, Lysaena hopes to attend ENJMIN, a school dedicated to video game and other interactive digital arts. Lysaena creates drawings inspired by the fantasy genre using a combination of mechanical pencils, graphite pencils and […]
