Category Archives: Pens and Markers

Kyle Platts Mixing the Macabre and the Humorous in his Comics and Editorial Illustrations

Posted at 7 pm on April 10, 2013 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Character Illustration, Comic Art, Pens and Markers

Mutants and decapitation are featured among Kyle Platts‘ enjoyably creepy characters.

While talking to us about his work he describes mixing dark themes with bright imagery for satire and fun. Drawings of the bizarre and all-out weird are definitely a good thing in our book, which is something Kyle provides in spades.

Interview with Daniel Fishel About Study, Work and his Editorial Illustrations

Posted at 7 pm on February 27, 2013 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Ink Illustration, Pens and Markers

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Daniel Fishel’s portfolio is full of interesting editorial illustration in inky textures. We like that the images he makes are driven by ideas but also the gritty strokes of the brush and his hand-drawn lettering. Other work on his site is described as ‘limited colour’.

Layers of Patterned Colour in Ryan Thayer Davis' Mixed Media Paintings and Prints

Posted at 8 pm on February 26, 2013 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Mixed Media, Painting, Pens and Markers

This collection of amazingly expressive images are a few examples from different series by Ryan Thayer Davis. Ryan currently lives and works in his home town of Austin, Texas, where he works with an abundance of colour, texture and creative marks. His portfolio includes oil paintings, lithographs and mono prints, as well as work in mixed media.

Interviewing Oliver Cartwright About Ballpoint Pens and Moving Around the World

Posted at 6 pm on November 6, 2012 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Digital Illustration, Ink Illustration, Pens and Markers

Oliver Cartwright makes the most out of the simplest materials. He creates his abstract designs using mostly ballpoint pens, finely drawing with them but also snapping them open for more energetic, organised chaos. We really like the idea and think its a testament to his skill with a pen that he can seemingly effortlessly use them to make something soft and subtle one moment, then something bold and explosive the next.

Patterned Cities and Imagined Worlds by Summer Graduate Ellie Rassia

Posted at 8 pm on September 6, 2012 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Ink Illustration, Pens and Markers, Photographic Illustration

Ellie Rassia is a recent summer graduate and produces these large, intense drawings. We like them for the unshackled use of bright colours, pattern, and sense of free-flowing pen on paper. She also sneaks in a little collage, which usually being figurative, adds too the psychedelia, like they are the main character and we are getting a glimpse of their trippy visions.

Sketchbook Sneak: Connie Lim's Expressive, Inky Figure Studies

Posted at 8 am on September 2, 2012 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Character Illustration, Pens and Markers, Sketchbooks

Here’s another Sketchbook Sneak, where we’re invited to look through Connie Lim’s great life drawing pages.

Apart from simply being beautiful figure studies, we like how free and expressive she is with her mark making. She manages realistic descriptions of the forms but doesn’t need to dwell too long on specific areas, keeping the pen or brush moving and the feeling light and easy. You can see her switching from a skilled observational style to quick, energetic marks over the top.

Peeled Faces, Retro-androids, and Hatching Techniques from Smithe

Posted at 4 pm on July 25, 2012 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Character Illustration, Ink Illustration, Pens and Markers

Illustrator, Smithe has mastered some pretty great hatching techniques, which he diligent applies by hand to create his surreal images. Although they are modern and bursting with his own style, his work includes more traditional mark making that shows that he really knows what he is doing.