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Author Archive for: Alexander_P

Entries by Alexander Poirier

Pencil Artist of the Week: WillowFelicity

This week’s featured artist is a pencil artist from Indonesia who goes by the handle WillowFelicity on DeviantArt. Willow creates drawings that combine black and white graphite elements with bursts of color from a variety of different mediums, including acrylic paints, watercolors and wax color pencils. Willow uses Faber-Castell pencils for the graphite portions of […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Jack Kaminski

This week’s featured pencil artist is Jack Kaminski, a pencil artist, comic illustrator, art director and concept artist from Brazil. Jack creates everything from hyper-realistic portraits, to surreal landscapes and, regardless of the subject or style, Jack executes each drawing with astonishing skill. In fact, many of his drawings are so meticulously crafted, it’s difficult […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Michele Parisi

This week’s featured pencil artist is Michele Parisi, a pencil artist from Italy who creates pencils drawings of dinosaurs, dinosaurs, and more dinosaurs. Ever since I watched the Jurassic World trailer last week, I’ve been on a bit of a dinosaur binge, so I was really excited when I stumbled across Michele’s DeviantArt gallery. All […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Steven G. Chipman

This week’s featured pencil artist is an artist from the United States named Steven G. Chipman. Steven creates graphite, carbon and color pencil drawings with a TON of texture, and even more character. Steven was kind enough to share the secret behind his drawings: “My color work is a mix of Prismacolor and Lyra Rembrandt […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: Phadme

This week’s featured pencil artist is Barbara, a pencil artist from Spain who creates drawings inspired by Japanese mange and anime. She goes by the handle Phadme on DeviantArt, and her gallery is filled with exquisitely lined pencil drawings of popular Japanese characters and characters of her own design. I use the word “exquisitely” to […]

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Pencil Artist of the Week: Erik Klaus

This week’s featured pencil artist is Erik Klaus, a pencil artist from the United States who is an aspiring comic book artist and illustrator. His DeviantArt profile is filled with drawings of comic book icons like Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as characters of his own creation. His drawings range from rough […]

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Pencil Artist of the Week: Andreas Mischok

This week’s featured pencil artist is Andreas Mischok, a pencil artist from Germany who creates high-contrast pencil drawings of orcs, elves and assassins. Being from Germany, Andreas has no shortage of high-quality, locally-made pencils to choose from. He recently switched over to Lyra pencils from Faber-Castell, and has been enjoying the feel of the full […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: BaileyT

This week’s featured pencil artist is BaileyT, a pencil artist from the United States who creates photorealistic color pencil drawings, oil paintings, and digital pieces. Regardless of how she finishes them, all of Bailey’s drawings start with graphite on simple toned paper that she cuts to size. Here’s a short excerpt from Bailey’s DeviantArt profile […]

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Pencil Artist of the Week: Brad Tabar

This week’s featured pencil artist is Brad Tabar, or Dokkalfr if you follow him on DeviantArt. Brad creates pencil drawings that are, in a word, fantastic, in both quality and subject matter. Brad’s DeviantArt gallery is divided into seven categories: “Scandinavian and Teutonic Myth and Folklore,” “British Islander Folklore,” “General European Folklore,” “World Folklore and Mythology,” […]

Pencil Artist of the Week: James Back

This week’s featured pencil artist is James Back, a pencil artist from the United States who goes by the handle Ysssk on DeviantArt. James creates some truly fantastic pencil drawings using a combination of a standard #2 pencil and some deceptively brilliant (and budget friendly) materials and techniques. James was kind enough to give me […]