This week’s featured pencil artist is Yann Gobart, a pencil artist from France who creates mixed media drawings of pop culture icons. Yann uses a combination of pencils, digital tools, paints and non-traditional materials to create his finished works, which are unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Yann was kind enough to give us some insight […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Veronika G., a pencil artist from Germany who creates ink, graphite and Copic marker drawings. Her favorite pencil at the moment is the German-made Faber-Castell Grip 2001, but she uses a variety of soft and hard pencils, depending on what the individual work calls for. One stand-out drawing in […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Florian Jaensch, a pencil artist from Germany who specializes in creating portraits and time-lapse drawing videos. Florian’s DeviantArt gallery is filled with graphite, charcoal, and chalk drawings of celebrities and pop-culture icons, but my favorite of the bunch are the drawings he creates with ink. Now, I know what […]
Today, Palomino finally took the wraps off of the latest addition to the Blackwing family, the Blackwing Slate, with a full photo preview. Here are the main points: Wear-resistant polymer hardcover Dual-sewn binding (sewn bound twice for extra durability) Smooth, matte-black finish Durable black canvas spine High-grade elastic pencil holster 100 GSM ruled or plain paper […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Anais Vallée, a pencil artist from Canada who creates her drawings with the humblest of tools: a #2 graphite pencil and Crayola color pencil. Yes, you read that correctly. No graded graphite pencils. No blendable, artist-quality color pencils. Just regular, run-of-the-mill, everyday school pencils. And, frankly, the drawings she […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Robbie Wild Hudson, a pencil artist who splits his time between Berlin and the Lake District in England. Robbie has exhibited his work in the UK, Canada, and Turkey and, after taking one look at his gallery, it’s easy to see why. Robbie’s style features a combination of geometric […]
This week’s featured artist is Armalitire, a pencil artist and digital artist from the United States. Armalitire’s DeviantArt gallery is filled with characters of her own design, each with a unique look, name and backstory. Many of her drawings are of the digital variety, but we wouldn’t be here if her gallery didn’t feature some […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Bill Boyer, a retired professional artist who worked in the video game industry for the last 17 years. Bill is a self-taught 3D digital artist, but has spent his days in retirement getting back to his traditional art roots. Bill’s DeviantArt gallery (where he goes by the handle oldmanboyer), […]
At this year’s SXSW, I had the pleasure of meeting Matt Diffee, a cartoonist who is perhaps best known for creating the hilarious doodles found in each issue of the New Yorker. Matt was participating in a discussion titled “Turning a Blank Page Into a Winning Idea” and, as I listened to him share his […]
Our selection of mechanical pencils has grown in recent years (And may be getting some new additions soon. Stay tuned for more on that later.), and we can appreciate the subtleties of the woodcased pencil’s mechanical brethren. So, when I saw the “Mechanical Pencil Torture Test” go up on Boing Boing, I was both intrigued and […]
