Pencil Artist of the Week: Yann Gobart

This week’s featured pencil artist is Yann Gobart, a pencil artist from France who creates mixed media drawings of pop culture icons. Yann uses a combination of pencils, digital tools, paints and non-traditional materials to create his finished works, which are unlike anything I’ve ever seen.

Yann was kind enough to give us some insight into his creative process:

“My tools are… Miscellaneous!

[I use] graphite (H, HB, B) for the beginning of the portrait. I make a scan of my drawing, and after, I work on the textures with Photoshop. Then, I print the whole drawing in high definition on a big canvas (75cmX100cm). 

To finish, I rework the entire drawing with paint (acrylics, gouache), essentially in black and white, because that conveys poetry and a kind of timelessness in these portraits of pop légends… Sometimes I stick materials to the finished product (gold or silver leaves for example…).”

I can’t get enough of Yann’s work. I especially love his portrait of Marilyn Monroe. The gold leaves accent the piece beautifully, and give it a glamorous look that calls back to the golden age of Hollywood.

Drawings by Yann Gobart

If you want to see more of Yann’s work, you can check out his DeviantArt profile here. You can also check out his blog for more frequent updates.

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!