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Pencil Artist of the Week: Kelvin Okafor
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis 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,…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Liam Chestnutt
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is Liam Chestnutt, a pencil artist living in Southampton, England. Liam is one of our followers on Twitter whose pencil art caught our eye after he reached out to us with a pencil question. So, for all of…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Mike O’Connell
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured artist is Mike O’Connell, a pencil artist living in a rural village in Staffordshire, UK. Mike has captured images of David Bowie, Jack Nicholson, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards and more in graphite form. On average, each…

Drawing Lessons: Creating Textures
Drawing LessonsLearn how to add texture to your drawings in this entry into Diane Wright's drawing lessons series.
Drawing Lessons: Creating Textures
So what is texture? We touch an object and can feel that it is smooth or rough, but how do we translate…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Stuart Clark
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is Stuart Clark, a pencil artist from the UK who specializes in creating large-scale, life-like, highly-detailed portraits of people and animals. We actually discovered Stuart on our Facebook page, where…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Ced Nocon
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week's featured pencil artist is Ced Nocon, a self-taught comic penciler and inker living in Los Angeles, California. Ced has worked in the comic industry for over 19 years and has had his work published by comic giants like Marvel, DC…

Pencil Artist of the Week: June Wright
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is June Wright, an animator, artist and designer from Dublin, Ireland. She has worked with studios ranging from Fox Animation and Don Bluth Studios, to Warner Bros. and MGM, and has on the feature films Anastasia,…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Austin Madison
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is Austin Madison, an animator working at Pixar and the man behind the animation/drawing blog Austin Translation. Austin graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2006, and he has already built…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Julie Popowicz
Pencil Artist of the WeekThis week’s featured pencil artist is Julie Popowicz, a pencil artist living in Alberta, Canada. Julie was born in Germany (we all know the strong connection between Germany and pencils) and has been drawing for over 30 years. She experimented…

Pencil Artist of the Week: Katarina Wong
Pencil Artist of the WeekPencil Artist Katarina Wong
This week’s featured pencil artist is Katarina Wong, a visual artist and curator based in New York City. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in museums ranging from the Bronx Museum in New York…

