Pencil Artist of the Week: Veronika G.

This week’s featured pencil artist is Veronika G., a pencil artist from Germany who creates ink, graphite and Copic marker drawings. Her favorite pencil at the moment is the German-made Faber-Castell Grip 2001, but she uses a variety of soft and hard pencils, depending on what the individual work calls for.

One stand-out drawing in her gallery is titled “Streichholz,” which is German for “match.” In the drawing, Veronika creates a feeling of total darkness by bleeding the color all the way to the edge of the paper. The pigment is almost suffocating, just as the dark can be. Then, as the darkness approaches the match, she fades it using a combination of crosshatches and soft strokes, creating the illusion of light and giving the paper (and viewer) room to breathe.

The images in Veronika’s gallery are not scans of her drawings, but photographs of entire pages of her sketchbook. Personally, I love it when artists choose to do this. I like seeing each drawing as a piece of something bigger, a pixel in a larger work of art.

Drawings by Veronika G.

If you’d like to see more of Veronika’s drawings, you can check out her DeviantArt 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!

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