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Pencil Artist of the Week: Stephan van den Burg
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured artist is Stephan van den Burg, a pencil artist from the Netherlands who creates non-traditional drawings in a style that is completely his own. And the best part? He creates them entirely out of graphite.
Stephan worked…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Anatolij Grebnev
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is Anatolij Grebnev aka Tolik, a “self taught, bearded, animator [and] illustrator” from the Ukraine. Tolik creates whimsical drawings using a wide variety of tools, including Marco graphite pencils,…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Pauline Jaine Palita
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is Pauline Jaine Palita, a pencil artist from the Phillippines who creates “wibbly wobbly artworks” using a combination of graphite pencils, color pencils and paints.
Pauline uses Faber-Castell color…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Sara Elena Meloni
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured artist is Sara Elena Meloni, a pencil artist from Italy who creates realistic pencil drawings using a variety of graphite sources. In fact, according to Sarah, she uses “too much graphite,” but I think she uses just…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Davide Belli
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured artist is Davide Belli, a pencil artist, illustrator and student of comic art living in Milan, Italy. Saturday was Free Comic Book Day in the United States, so I’ve been in a comic book kind of mood lately, and Davide’s…

Interview with Illustrator, Letterer and Art Director Nick Sickelton
ART, Pencil NewsLast month, we launched our 20 Year Celebration commemorating the 20th anniversary of the founding of Pencils.com. To celebrate, we worked with former Pencil Artist of the Week Nick Sickelton to create a timeline chronicling the history of…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Anna Eglantine
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week's featured pencil artist is Anna Eglantine, a freelance artist and illustrator based in Lyon, France. Anna creates extremely detailed drawings using a variety of tools, including pencils and pens:
"I like to create detailed and contrast…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Christy (Twenty2High)
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is Christy (Twenty2High), an aspiring animator from Canada who creates gorgeous pencil and ink drawings. Christy’s drawings may appear simple at first glance, but further inspection reveals drawings that…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Andrew Joseph
ART, Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured artist is Andrew Joseph, a pencil artist from Canada who creates highly detailed drawings using a a variety of different tools and techniques. Through creative perspectives, drawing techniques and styles, Andrew’s drawings…

Pencil Artist of the Week: NakuNakuTenshi
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured artist is a pencil artist from Poland who goes by the handle “NakuNakuTenshi” on DeviantArt. NakuNakuTenshi’s gallery is filled with drawings of the Enneagram, a series of nine interconnected character drawings with…

