This week’s featured artist is Tiffany Turrill, a pencil artist, freelance illustrator and video game concept artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tiffany creates drawings that feature character, creature and environmental designs in a variety of mediums. Tiffany was awesome enough to share her list of tools with us: “I use […]
This week’s featured artist is Nikolaj Djatschenko, a pencil artist who creates surreal pencil drawings of historic icons, classic fairytales and characters of his own design. Nikolaj uses Faber-Castell pencils and Faber-Castell ink markers to create his drawings. His subjects feature soft lines and features, and he makes liberal use of cross-hatch textures to shade […]
This week’s featured artist is Jana, a pencil artist and illustration student from Germany. Jana creates macabre drawings using a combination of analog and digital tools. Jana was kind enough to give us some insight into her creative process. “For my ‘clean’ drawings I use Faber-Castell graphite pencils (3B-8B) and a Derwent charcoal pencil. The […]
This week’s featured artist is Stephan van den Burg, a pencil artist from the Netherlands who creates non-traditional drawings in a style that is completely his own. And the best part? He creates them entirely out of graphite. Stephan worked with Firehose, a Blackwing pencil retailer in the Netherlands, to create an exhibition of works […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Anatolij Grebnev aka Tolik, a “self taught, bearded, animator [and] illustrator” from the Ukraine. Tolik creates whimsical drawings using a wide variety of tools, including Marco graphite pencils, 2mm clutch pencils, Faber-Castell PITT artist pens and Mitsubishi Uni Pin fine line pens. Tolik’s style is fun and fanciful, utilizing […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Pauline Jaine Palita, a pencil artist from the Phillippines who creates “wibbly wobbly artworks” using a combination of graphite pencils, color pencils and paints. Pauline uses Faber-Castell color pencils and mechanical drafting pencils for most of her drawings. Her style ranges from hyper-realistic, to stylized realism, to Japanese animation-inspired […]
This week’s featured artist is Sara Elena Meloni, a pencil artist from Italy who creates realistic pencil drawings using a variety of graphite sources. In fact, according to Sarah, she uses “too much graphite,” but I think she uses just the right amount. Sara uses a combination of Lyra, Koh-I-Noor and Cretacolor pencils, micro line […]
This week’s featured artist is Davide Belli, a pencil artist, illustrator and student of comic art living in Milan, Italy. Saturday was Free Comic Book Day in the United States, so I’ve been in a comic book kind of mood lately, and Davide’s drawings definitely satisfied my cravings. Davide shared his list of preferred tools, […]
Last month, we launched our 20 Year Celebration commemorating the 20th anniversary of the founding of Pencils.com. To celebrate, we worked with former Pencil Artist of the Week Nick Sickelton to create a timeline chronicling the history of the Pencils.com domain. I sat down to chat with Nick about what it was like to work on […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Anna Eglantine, a freelance artist and illustrator based in Lyon, France. Anna creates extremely detailed drawings using a variety of tools, including pencils and pens: “I like to create detailed and contrast drawings. I mostly use Faber-Castell and Prismacolor colored pencils, as well as Pigma Micron Fineliners and black […]
