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Pencil Artist of the Week: Thiago (kikodv)
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is Thiago, a pencil artist from Brazil who goes by the handle kikodv on DeviantArt. Thiago’s profile features a gallery dedicated to his non-colored originals and a gallery dedicated to their digitally-finished…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Michela
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is Michela, a pencil artist, t-shirt designer and painter living in Italy. Michela goes by the handle Mikyechelon on DeviantArt and, after browsing through her gallery, it’s apparent that she is extremely…

Interview with Alexandra Charmaine Ortiz
ART, Pencil NewsAlexandra Charmaine Ortiz, M.F.A., is a very busy artist! She is Artist in Residence at the Art Students League of New York’s Vytlacil Campus, has an exhibit called Collapsed Fields currently on display, and is launching her own pencil company…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Roudy Courser
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist creates sketches of something very dear to my heart: classic Volkswagen vehicles. And, being that I spent a majority of my Saturday this weekend helping a friend pick out the latest addition to his VW family,…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Pablo Damas
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week's featured artist is pencil artist Pablo Damas, a graphic designer, tattoo artist and apparel designer living in Los Angeles, California. Pablo creates works that are raw and expressive, utilizing deep blacks and soft greys to create…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Raigo Kannike
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is Raigo Kannike, a pencil artist living in “middle of nowhere, next to nothing” Estonia. Raigo’s DeviantArt gallery is filled with charcoal drawings, works in progress and notebook doodles, but it…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Charmaine Ortiz
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured artist is graphite expert and pencil artist Charmaine Ortiz. Charmaine is based in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, where she creates works that push the graphite medium to its breaking point (no pun intended). The following…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Jason Rafferty
Pencil NewsThis week’s featured artist is painter, draftsman and pencil artist Jason Rafferty, a full-time artist living and creating in Asheville, North Carolina. Ever since he can remember, Jason has always sought a creative outlet. This outlet took…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Roos
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is Roos, a pencil artist and DeviantArt contributor from the Netherlands. Roos has been drawing, painting and creating since she was just a little girl and, as a result of her countless hours of practice,…

Football Art: An Update on Pixar Animator Austin Madison
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Last year, we profiled Pixar animator Austin Madison as one of our 52 weekly featured pencil artists. We noted that along with his impressive body of work for Pixar and his blog Austin Translation, Austin also runs an additional blog designated…

