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How Pencils Inspired Bob Dylan

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How Pencils Inspired Bob Dylan Often, the hardest part about creative expression is trying to get started.  It’s a challenge everyone faces at one time or another, including the great Bob Dylan. While Dylan is known first and foremost…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Steamkid

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This week's pencil artist is an anonymous blogger with the Tumblr moniker Steamkid, perhaps a reference to the steampunk sub-genre of science fiction and fantasy. Though her blog's archives are short, you can see the progression from horizon-line…
Pencil Artist Kyle Bean

Pencil Artist of the Week: Kyle Bean

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We love featuring pencil artists who are using pencils, though not necessarily drawing with them. One such example is Kyle Bean. With several photos of his portraits featured over at Blink Art, Kyle shaves down colored pencils to use the shape…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Pat Perry

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This week, we ran across this pencil artist on Tumblr (linked from Big Eye Doll). It's Pat Perry, or P@ Perry, according to the doodled header on the top of Pat's website. At this point, we're not sure of Pat's age, location, or even gender,…
Pencil Artist Cath Riley

Pencil Artist of the Week: Cath Riley

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Pencil artist Cath Riley has created many, many works in pencil, and almost all of them have a special emphasis on texture, shading, and shape. This picture, for example, very expertly portrays the wrinkles and crannies of the hand of an elderly…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Andrew Madrazo

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Today's Monday Pencil Artist is Andrew Madrazo from Cebu City in the Philippines. A software engineer by day, his Tumblr blog, Dru-ing features, among other things, pencil-drawing figures cut out and interacting with the artist somehow. This…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Wim Heldens

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Okay, so this one isn't so much a pencil drawing, as it is a painting of a model holding a pencil. But you like pencils well enough to forgive that, right? We read over at Pencil Points the other day about this portrait, by Wim Heldens. Heldens,…
Pencil Artist Creative Native

Pencil Artist of the Week: The Creative Native

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This week's featured pencil artist, 23 year-old Ashleigh Brown, has a Tumblr blog, Creative Native, where she posts all sorts of sketches, illustrations and artwork. Our favorite of her work are the doodles she creates, like this one. Despite…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Cheryl Chapman

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I attended an event Saturday evening in my hometown (Fort Wayne, Indiana) called "Drop Your Avant Garde," a night combining local bands, art, food, and drink downtown. Often times it showcases artists who aren't as well known in the community. A…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Audrey Kawasaki

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This week's featured pencil artist is Audrew Kawasaki. This piece was featured on graphic designer Soraan Latif's Tumblr blog, called Blarggggg (I hope I have enough "g"s in there). It's a geisha, drawn in contemporary Japanese style, on a block…