Pencil Artist of the Week: Sara Elena Meloni

This week’s featured artist is Sara Elena Meloni, a pencil artist from Italy who creates realistic pencil drawings using a variety of graphite sources. In fact, according to Sarah, she uses “too much graphite,” but I think she uses just the right amount.

Sara uses a combination of Lyra, Koh-I-Noor and Cretacolor pencils, micro line pens, and graphite powder to create her drawings. Her favorite tool, however, is the Koh-I-Noor graded graphite pencil ranging from HB to 8B. 

Most of Sara’s drawings are extremely realistic, full-sized portraits, but Sara has been uploading images to DeviantArt for over seven years, so there are a number of surprises/experiments to be found while browsing her gallery. One of these surprises comes in the form of a series of drawings no larger than a 2 Euro coin. The level of detail she is able to recreate in such a small space is amazing, and really shows off her ability to recognize and recreate the essential details of a subject.

Drawings by Pencil Artist Sara Elena Meloni

If you’d like to see more of Sara’s drawings, you can check out her DeviantArt profile here. You can also follow her on Facebook or Instagram, where she posts her works in progress.

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!