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Pencil Artist Nick Williams

Pencil Artist of the Week: Nick Williams

This week’s featured pencil artist is Nick Williams, an artist living in the United Kingdom. After spending a considerable amount of time exploring and admiring the works of artists on DeviantArt.com, Nick decided to take up drawing and contribute…
Pencil Artist Dino Tomic

Pencil Artist of the Week: Dino Tomic

This week's featured pencil artist is Dino Tomic, a tattoo artist, traditional painter, digital painter, and pencil artist living in Norway. Though his passion is his tattoo art (which is amazing, by the way), it was his color pencil portraits…
Palomino Drawing Pencils

Connect the Dots: Exploring the Link Between Drawing & Communication

Drawing & Communication Art as a form of communication and self-expression is nothing new, but it takes on a whole new level of importance when we consider the way that children use drawing. As a child, Garrett was diagnosed with autism.…
Drawn Album Art

The Best of: Hand-Drawn Album Art

I can appreciate a good photograph or a digital art piece on a record cover as much as the next audiophile, but there’s something extra special about album artwork that’s illustrated by hand. Here are five brilliantly sketched album covers…
Textbook Doodles

Countdown of the 7 Best Textbook Doodles

I was always an avid doodler, and an avid consumer of doodles in used textbooks. I especially enjoyed the textbook scavenger hunt. You know the one - on page 12 it says turn to page 45, on page 45 it says turn to page 26, etc., until you finally…
Pencil Artist Paul harmon

Pencil Artist of the Week: Paul Harmon

This week’s featured pencil artist is Paul Harmon, a comic artist, doodler and toy maker living in Brooklyn. Paul usually works with nib-tipped pens, but one drawing we found on his Deviant Art profile stood out from the rest. The drawing…
Outsider Artists

Outsider Artists: Exploring the Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness

Outsider Artists Much has been published on the link between creativity and mental illness, from scholarly articles to articles in HuffPo, the Harvard Gazette, and the New York Times. What is clear is that mental illness, and other conditions…
Editorial Cartooning Pulitzer Prize

Top 11 Editorial Cartooning Pulitzer Prize Winners

                            The winners of the Pulitzer Prize were announced last week. As artists and drawing enthusiasts, the…
drink and draw

Sketched, Not Stirred: Drink and Draw

Drink and Draw There are a lot of things NOT to do when you've been drinking - things like driving, going to work, or calling an ex. Fortunately, drawing is not one of those sober-only activities. In bars across the country, artists are meeting…
Pencil Artist Kelvin Okafor

Pencil Artist of the Week: Kelvin Okafor

This week’s featured pencil artist is Kelvin Okafor, a pencil artist based in the UK. Kelvin describes himself as a “passionate penciled artist… highly interested in detail and precision” and, judging by the work he does with a pencil,…