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Drawing Lessons: A Lesson in “Circulism” with Brian Duey

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Drawing Lessons: Circulism "Circulism" is a technique that many artists use in attaining a realistic skin texture in drawing. People's faces are not perfect and should not be rendered so. Circulism is basically drawing very tiny overlapping…

Drawing Lessons: A Lesson in Negative Drawing with Brian Duey

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Drawing Lessons: Negative Drawing When negative drawing, you shouldn't focus on the shape of the object itself, you should focus on the shape of the space around the object. When all the space around the object is shaded, the object will…

Drawing Lessons: A Lesson in Shading with Mike Theuer

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Learn how to properly shade your drawings to add depth and dimension in this entry into Mike Theuer's drawing lessons series. Drawing Lessons: Shading Before you start to draw remember that light travels in a straight line. Recall how…
Animators and Animation Studios to Follow

Animation: 10 Artists and Animation Studios to Follow

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Animation has always intrigued me. I was often glued to the television set, admittedly when I was supposed to be doing more constructive things, but the allure of well drawn artwork, as well as a good story, always had the power to keep my attention…

Sketchbook Buc’n With Pencil Artist of the Week Katie Sekelsky

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This week's Pencil Artist of the Week is Katie Sekelsky, the artist behind Sketchbook Buc'n. For those unfamiliar, Sketchbook Buc'n is a blog dedicated to chronicling every game of the Pirate's 2012 season with sketches, drawings and doodles.…
DIY crafts

Crafting Your Way to DIY Greatness – PPC

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Pencils and Pop-Culture: Crafting Your Way to DIY Greatness While channel-surfing the other night, I happened to stumble on TLC’s latest reality competition series, “Craft Wars.” Now, I’m not much of a DIY-er myself – I always seem…

The Pencil, Always in Style – PPC

Pencils and Pop-Culture: The Pencil, Always in Style I’ve written before about the inherent seductive qualities of pencils. However, for all my admiration of pencil skirts and, in limited instances, pencils mustaches, I had never seen just…

(Re)Introducing Pencils.com Teaching Artist Mike Theuer!

Hi Studio 602ers!  I’m Mike Theuer.  I’m a featured teaching-artist here on Pencils.com.  I also teach art at The Pennsylvania State University.  And I make art for a living at www.MikeTheuer.com.  My latest commission is this 8x10…

The Blackwing Pencil: Muse to the Masses

The Blackwing Pencil: Muse to the Masses If you've followed along, you'll know that those of us here at Studio 602 believe that a Blackwing pencil can be something sexy , something political , and something sporty . But it turns out we're not…

Are Video Games Art?

Are Video Games Art? I’ve been playing video games for as long as I can remember, so when Roger Ebert came out a few years ago and claimed “video games can never be art,” I was one of the many who voiced their objections. Are video games…