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Pencil Artist Bill Boyer

Pencil Artist of the Week: Bill Boyer

This week’s featured pencil artist is Bill Boyer, a retired professional artist who worked in the video game industry for the last 17 years. Bill is a self-taught 3D digital artist, but has spent his days in retirement getting back to his…

Matt Diffee’s World Cup Doodle Nails it

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At this year’s SXSW, I had the pleasure of meeting Matt Diffee, a cartoonist who is perhaps best known for creating the hilarious doodles found in each issue of the New Yorker. Matt was participating in a discussion titled “Turning a Blank…
How to Choose Your Drawing Paper

How to Choose Your Drawing Paper

An artist’s materials are essential to their craft.  For those that work with drawing mediums – pencil, charcoal, watercolor, ink, pastel – paper is vital to creating of lasting work. Having trouble finding the right paper for sketch…

Scientists Create Diamonds Out of Graphite. Sort of.

The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) Office of Science User Facility kind of made diamonds out of graphite this past February. In a study entitled “Interlayer Carbon Bond Formation Induced by Hydrogen Adsorption in Few-Layer…

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