Pencil Artist of the Week: Anais Vallée

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 creates with them are pretty awesome.

I would say Anais’s style is best described as “realistic caricature.” Her drawings feature realistic elements that are heightened for emphasis, most notably the size of her subjects’ eyes. This gives her drawings an animated look without delving into cartoon territory.

In addition to her trusty #2, Anais also uses a hard charcoal pencil for deep blacks and shading. You can see the full range of tools she uses in her DeviantArt gallery.

Anais is hosting an Indiegogo Campaign to fund her University studies. For a small donation, you can score one of her awesome drawings, and help an aspiring artist further her education. If there was ever a win-win situation, this is it.

If you want to see more of Anais’s work, you can check out her Deviant art gallery here.

What do you think Pencils Blog readers? Do you know someone who should be featured as our Pencil Artist of the Week? Let us know in the comments.