Sophie Alda is an illustrator, painter, and prop-maker based in East London. She also makes comics, and she likes gouache (and also pencil of course). Hi there! Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? I live in London and I make a living making stuff and painting stuff for other people and myself. I also like some typically good things like cycling and eating. I just bought a riso printer with my cool n...
Pedro Campiche, also known as AKA.CORLEONE is from Portugal. He works as a freelance designer and illustrator and draws inspiration from graffiti. “Born on the wrong side of the tracks, the once called ‘chuck norris of the underworld’ soon learned how to survive and prosper from illegal acts, but the constant menace of sleeping with the fishes forced this upcoming mafioso to embrace the less dangero...
Helen Entwisle is a freelance illustrator and screen printer. Whilst up to her eyeballs in black coffee she creates stationery designs inspired by her collections of mid-century kitsch. Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? Hi I’m Helen. I recently move to Kendal, had a retired greyhound come to live with me, and set up a screen printing workshop at home. Its been a busy few months. Are you righ...
Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? Hi! I’m James and I’m a Yorkshire born illustrator. Are you right or left-handed? Right! What appeals to you, or attracts you to, working in pencil? I love the immediacy of making a mark in pencil and the array of textures and tones you can create. Could you tell us a bit about your creative process, from the initial image or idea to the finished piece? I find inf...
Could you tell us a bit about yourself and your work? I’m never quite sure whether ‘illustrator’ is the right word for what I do, because the majority of my work is personal and not in response to a brief or text. I like to tell stories, and I simply like to draw. My preferred forms are zines and epically long graphic novels. Are you right or left-handed? Right, despite my best efforts when I was a kid and thought be...
Alright folks, it’s time to put your pencils down! It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for… MAMMALS! MONSTERS! MARS! (and DICE!) After months of hard work and amazing contributions from all the artists involved, we are super proud and super excited to finally show off the latest Tiny Pencil project: a special all-ages, all-comics, and all-activities mini-zine special! This extremel...
Rachel is an artist from Montréal who is currently installed in the heart of Acadia. She’s a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design where she majored in fine art studio, art theory and criticism yet was always seduced by the simplicity of a pencil. Her degree was partnered with a lengthy Kafkaesque off-campus gallery internship. She was twice awarded the Joseph Beuys Memorial Scholarship and a handful ...
Nick Sheehy is an Australian-born artist and illustrator living in the south-east of England. After studying bronze sculpture in the wilds of Tasmania, Nick gave up on art only to re-discover his love of drawing whilst living in London, sparked by an interest in the city’s low brow art, illustration, street art and graffiti. In his work, Nick explores the dreamlike, sometimes semi-autobiographical scenes and oddball ...
