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Matt Diffee’s World Cup Doodle Nails it

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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…

The Best Pencil Print Ad Campaigns

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Pencils and print ads go together like peanut butter and jam.  Usually, however, the print is not about the pencils that likely birthed the ads.  Here are our all-time favorite pencil print ad campaigns.  Some of them advertise pencils and…

Derwent Art Prize

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This year marks the second opportunity for pencil artists to compete for the Derwent Art Prize. Artists over the age of 18 from all over the world are invited to submit pieces done in pencil, pastel, graphite, charcoal or colored pencil. The…
Bob Dylan Drawn Blank Series

Bob Dylan’s “Drawn Blank Series”

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For over five decades, Bob Dylan has impacted the political, philosophical, musical and artistic world. The performer has sold more than 110 million albums on his way to becoming one of the most accomplished songwriters in history. Most notably…

The Fan Art of Dark Souls & Dark Souls 2

While video games may be more popular today than they’ve ever been in the past, it’s rare to find games with as strong a community as the Souls series has. People who haven’t played the game but have heard of it know that these games are…
Pencil Artist Lamin Martin

Pencil Artist of the Week: Lamin Martin

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This week’s featured pencil artist is Lamin Martin, a pencil artist and digital illustrator living in Toronto. He is the founder and lead artist at Lamin Illustration & Design, a group that “specializes in creating conceptual fantasy…
Taysir Batniji

Taysir Batniji’s Stunning Pencil Shaving Installation

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Taysir Batniji is truly a jack of all trades in the art world. Born in Gaza in 1966, Batniji has studied and created art all over the world. He attended Al-Najah University in Palestine, the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Bourges Université…
John Lennon's Drawings

John Lennon’s Drawings To Be Auctioned

When you hear the name John Lennon, you probably hear "Imagine" playing in your head. The images his name calls to mind have more to do with making music and crossing streets in an iconic fashion than any other art form. And yet, John Lennon…

Interview with Alexandra Charmaine Ortiz

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Alexandra Charmaine Ortiz, M.F.A., is  a very busy artist! She is Artist in Residence at the Art Students League of New York’s Vytlacil Campus, has an exhibit called Collapsed Fields currently on display, and is launching her own pencil company…

Rafael Araujo’s Drawings Merge the Worlds of Math and Art

Math and Art are not two subjects that I often think of as being connected - at least, until I discovered the work of Venezuelan artist Rafael Araujo, who uses principles of Geometry to represent the mathematical complexity of nature on canvas. Ever…