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Pencil Artist of the Week: Rick Ratchford
Pencil Artist of the Week, Pencil NewsThis week's featured pencil artist is Rick Ratchford. Rick is a US based graphite artist who creates lifelike portraits using an array of tools in addition to his graphite pencils. Including charcoal, blending stumps, kneaded erasers and more.…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Davide Rindori
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is Davide Rindori, a pencil and charcoal artist from Italy who creates stunning portraits of famous persons.
To help breathe life into his portraits, Davide utilizes an array of Staedtler graphite pencils. For…

Pencil Artist of the Week: The Scarlet Fox
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is The-Scarlet-Fox, a pencil and Charcoal artist from the UK who creates charcoal drawings of famous faces and domestic pets.
Scarlet Fox utilizes sketching pencils, charcoal and a carbon pencil to…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Victoria General
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is Victoria General, a pencil artist from Canada who creates drawings and paintings of landscapes, portraits and more.
Victoria’s subjects are depicted in what I can only describe as a haunting style.…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Martin Ohlsson
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured artist is Martin Ohlsson, a pencil and ink artist from Sweden who creates delightfully ghoulish drawings using a combination of ink, graphite, charcoal and pastels.
Unlike many pencil artists, Martin’s drawings often…

Charcoal Drawing Tips
ART, Drawing Lessons
Charcoal is one of the oldest art mediums, having been used for cave drawings by early man. Back then, charcoal was used in the form of the ends of burned sticks. Today's charcoal artists have more modern options: compressed charcoal, vine…

