This week’s featured pencil artist is Christy (Twenty2High), an aspiring animator from Canada who creates gorgeous pencil and ink drawings. Christy’s drawings may appear simple at first glance, but further inspection reveals drawings that are filled with energy and character. Christy works primarily with pencil, but she has recently begun experimenting with pens, inks and paints. Christy […]
I live extremely close to Sutter’s Fort in Sacramento, California so, a few weeks back, my wife and I decided to take a walk over to the fort and brush up on our history. As we walked through it’s mud brick walls, we learned about role the fort played in the gold rush and how […]
This week’s featured artist is Andrew Joseph, a pencil artist from Canada who creates highly detailed drawings using a a variety of different tools and techniques. Through creative perspectives, drawing techniques and styles, Andrew’s drawings form a gallery that is diverse, yet cohesive, something that is no easy feat for an artist at any level. […]
This week’s featured artist is a pencil artist from Poland who goes by the handle “NakuNakuTenshi” on DeviantArt. NakuNakuTenshi’s gallery is filled with drawings of the Enneagram, a series of nine interconnected character drawings with each representing a different archetype of the human personality. The Enneagram was derived from the teachings of Oscar Ichazo and […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Vanessa, a pencil artist from Portugal who signs her work as “Rieven.” Vanessa creates hyper-realistic pencil drawings using a variety of tools from a number of different brands, including Faber-Castell, Derwent, Tombow and more. Vanessa was kind enough to give us a detailed list of the tools she uses […]
This week’s featured artist is Scarlett Royale, a photographer, crafter and pencil artist from the United States. Scarlett creates drawings using a variety of techniques, but two techniques stood out to me while I was browsing her gallery: stippling and the use of negative space. Stippling is the process of creating an image or shape […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Arunava Bid, a pencil artist from India who recently entered into the world of hyper-realistic pencil art. He posted his first hyper-realistic pencil drawing, titled “Prayer of an old man,” in July of 2014. He has since refined his technique, getting better and better with each subsequent piece. Arunava […]
This week’s featured artist is Kamila Hyzova, an art student from the Czech Republic who is studying to be an art teacher. Kamila works primarily with pens, but she does inject some color into her drawings using Koh-I-Noor color pencils. “I mostly use Faber-Castell Ecco Pigment liner pens, Sakura Pigma Micron liner pens, Touch twin […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Grelin Machin, a pencil artist living in Montreal, Canada who creates whimsical color pencil drawings that feature just a touch of the dark side. Grelin’s character designs are some of the most creative and inspired designs I’ve seen in some time and, after browsing the entirety of her DeviantArt […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is David Sirkoski, a pencil artist from Belgrade, Serbia who starts his drawings with traditional tools and finishes them on a computer. His DeviantArt gallery is filled with wondrous characters, landscapes and environments of his own design, and he has some awesome tips for artists looking to merge the analog […]
