This week’s featured pencil artist is Sandrid Navarro, a pencil artist from Colombia who creates color pencil drawings of people, animals and more. Sandrid uses a combination of Prismacolor color pencils, Faber-Castell color pencils and Fabriano paper for her drawings. It’s how she chooses her subjects, however, that really drew me in. Sandrid only creates […]
Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat: I love to write things out by hand. Even before I became entrenched in the world of pencils, pens, notebooks and the like, I loved scribbling in the margins of books, writing lists before a vacation or project and generally recording my thoughts on […]
This morning, one of my favorite pencil users, Austin Kleon, posted a link to video featuring another one of my favorite pencil users, Clive Thompson. The video features the keynote Clive delivered at one of Hubspot’s INBOUND Bold Talks titled “How the Way You Write Changes the Way You Think.” The video begins with Clive’s […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Don Gaconnet, a pencil artist from the United States who works graphite, acrylic paint, charcoals and color pencils. His DeviantArt gallery is filled with drawings created using a combination of these mediums, but it is his work with color pencils and charcoals that stood out to this casual art viewer. Don’s […]
Notebooks, journals and sketchbooks present a troubling challenge for me. The shelves and drawers of my house are filled with Field Notes, Rhodias, Slates and other pads of all shapes and sizes. They’re lined up like volumes in a vast and varying library. They’re stacked in neat piles that go from largest to smallest, like miniature pyramids […]
This week’s featured artist is Shayna Reddick, a pencil artist from the United States who started drawing in ernest in 2012. When she first picked up a pencil, her drawings were crude and simple, but in just three years’ time, she has developed into an amazing photo-realistic pencil artist. Shayna was kind enough to give me […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Pyokola, a self-taught pencil artist who creates graphite sketches and watercolor paintings of creatures, critters and characters of her own design. Pyokola’s drawings feature a distinct style that is characterized by soft colors, subtle shading and fine details bound by the strong lines that make up the general shape […]
This week’s featured artist creates pencil art that is a bit different from our standard fare. His name is Nick Sickelton, and he is an art director, logo designer, letterer and multi-disciplined creative who loves to create with pencils. And, frankly, we love what he creates with them. Nick’s Instagram, Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is G.M., a pencil artist from Italy who goes by the handle ElectroHeart38 on DeviantArt. G.M. is a self-taught pencil artist who enjoys experimenting with a variety of styles and mediums, a creative quirk that is immediately apparent when browsing through his gallery. It’s filled with 3D perspective drawings, realistic […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Juan Marzocca, a pencil artist from Argentina who creates photo-realistic pencil portraits. I had a blast browsing through Juan’s DeviantArt gallery over the weekend because Juan practices the seemingly lost (but rapidly reemerging) art of showing his work. Juan’s gallery is not only filled with finished pieces, but with […]
