This week’s featured pencil artist is Rick Ratchford. Rick is a US based graphite artist who creates lifelike portraits using an array of tools in addition to his graphite pencils. Including charcoal, blending stumps, kneaded erasers and more. Rick’s style involves laying down graphite in darker areas first and then using blending techniques to spread […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Sergej Bag, a german based graphite artist who creates highly detailed portraits as well as abstract pieces. Sergej starts his pieces with a basic outline using soft graphite pencils. Once the outline is complete he turns his attention to the details, starting broad and narrowing in on the more […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is DeviantArt contributor “Pencilir”, a graphite artist who creates portraits of cartoon characters, celebrities, and original creations. Pencilir is a self taught hobbyist focused on growing their creative skills by tackling different subject matter in their various pieces. Pencilir also utilizes blending stumps and kneaded erasers for blending, highlighting and additional […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Alex Ruiz, a US base graphite artist who creates portraits of horror and science fiction icons. Alex’s primary tools are Tombow graphite grades 4B-6B. In addition to pencils, Alex also utilizes water color tubes, color pencils, and white ink pens for highlights on his pieces. His portraits often feature several […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Joeri Van Royen, a graphite artist from Belgium who creates lifelike portraits from live figures and pictures. Joeri uses a wide variety of tools to make his visions a reality. They include Derwent graphite, Staedtler Mars Lumograph, Faber graphite aquarelle and Caran D’ache fixpencils.(Fun fact, this was the world’s first […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Davide Rindori, a pencil and charcoal artist from Italy who creates stunning portraits of famous persons. To help breathe life into his portraits, Davide utilizes an array of Staedtler graphite pencils. For parts that require wide areas of black, he uses charcoal as it speeds along the process. Davide also utilizes […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is The-Scarlet-Fox, a pencil and Charcoal artist from the UK who creates charcoal drawings of famous faces and domestic pets. Scarlet Fox utilizes sketching pencils, charcoal and a carbon pencil to bring these portraits to life. Charcoal is ideal for making many different lines very quickly. The use of a carbon pencil lends his […]
This week’s featured pencil artist is Derek Castro, a graphite pencil artist from Brazil who creates beautiful, yet haunting and surreal graphite drawings. Derek utilizes a mechanical pencil to create sharp detailed lines that allow his figures and objects to stand apart from each other. He uses an airbrush to create soft touches that enhance […]
This week’s featured artist is Megan Humphries, a UK based pencil artist who creates graphite and color pencil portraits of household pets and wildlife using color and graphite pencils. Megan is a self taught artist who uses Faber Castell Polychromos color pencils primarily. Using photographs of her subjects, Megan’s specialty is creating highly detailed, realistic […]
This week’s featured artist is Ebony-Blade a mixed media artist from the US who creates wonderful portraits of people, wildlife and scenery. EB primarily uses a range of woodless and traditional graphite pencils ranging from 2H all the way to 8B. She also utilizes an ebony pencil for creating thick, dark lines. In addition to […]
