Pencil Artist of the Week: Juan Marzocca

This week’s featured pencil artist is Juan Marzocca, a pencil artist from Argentina who creates photo-realistic pencil portraits. I had a blast browsing through Juan’s DeviantArt gallery over the weekend because Juan practices the seemingly lost (but rapidly reemerging) art of showing his work. Juan’s gallery is not only filled with finished pieces, but with snapshots of his drawings during the creative process.

Speaking of the creative process, Juan gave us some insight into his:

“I usually use Faber-Castell Polychrome pencils. A single graphite pencil. I use a tissue paper to blend the pencil, and sometimes I use a brush to smooth [the graphite].”

Juan’s drawings all feature a photo-realistic style that attempts to recreate photographs in graphite form. For the most part he is successful, especially when it comes to the mouth and eyes of his subjects.

Drawings By Pencil Artist Juan Marzocca

If you’d like to see more of Juan’s drawings, you can check out his DeviantArt profile 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!