Pencil Artist of the Week: Andreas Mischok

This week’s featured pencil artist is Andreas Mischok, a pencil artist from Germany who creates high-contrast pencil drawings of orcs, elves and assassins.

Being from Germany, Andreas has no shortage of high-quality, locally-made pencils to choose from. He recently switched over to Lyra pencils from Faber-Castell, and has been enjoying the feel of the full range.

“For the basic sketches of the drawing I use an HB pencil. I start shading with a middark pencil like 3B or 4B (in rare cases 2B or 5B, if I’m tending to go darker), and for dark areas I use 5B or 6B pencils.”

Andreas was kind enough to share some of his techniques with us, including the techniques he uses to draw the most challenging of all features: hair.

“There are few ‘special techniques’ that I use, but I vary my techniques pretty often. Hair for example: at first I drew them only with lines of my pencil, then on some later drawings I started to put a basic layer of graphite below the hair. Sometimes I use erasers to pull out a single hair (especially bright hair) or on some drawings I scratch hair-marks with the tip of a mechanical eraser in the paper and then I shade over it.”

Drawings by Andreas Mischok

If you’d like to see more of Andreas work, you can check out his DeviantArt profile here. You can also follow him on Instagram or like him on Facebook.

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.