Ladies and gentlemen! Alexis Deacon’s musings on graphite, animals and meaning, and dancing… Alexis Deacon is a writer and illustrator of comics, picture books and children’s fiction. His books have twice been selected for The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award. In 2008 he was chosen by Booktrust as one of the ten best new illustrators of the last decade. Hi Alexis! Could you tell us a...
Laura Cochón is an illustrator from Spain whose delicate graphite works inhabit the page with an intimate rhythm and poetry all their own. A lover of literary things and the book as object and form, Laura’s work and methodology provoke a beautiful sense of layered narratives and tactile possibilities. Hi there. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us about your work. Could you tell us a bit about yourself an...
In illustrator and artist Page Tsou’s surreal kingdoms, the mechanical and the man-made feature heavily as juxtaposed subjects. Pair this concept with his background – Taiwan born and based with a London stint and an MA at the Royal College of Art – and you start to get a sense of the limitlessness of his drawings. His 2010 London project The And focused on the hairs of society and featured drawings of th...
Interview by Vicky Woo Claudia Piras is 27 years old and drew her first doodle in Cala Gonone, Sardinia. She is currently living in Urbino, where she finished her studies at PERF in animation and cartoons last summer. Claudia is one of the ten young cartoonists behind the recently released GAP zine. Hi Claudia! It’s wonderful to have this opportunity to talk to you about your art! Your work often features portr...
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Ho Sin Tung has made waves in the Asian art scene with her quietly subversive works, which usually take the form of paper-based paintings and pencil drawings (although she also tackles film and installation, on occasion). She continues to exhibit extensively in prominent Hong Kong galleries amongst various other cities. ~Interview by Ysabelle Cheung. How would you describe your work and...
Joe Fenton is a London-based artist who works mainly in monochrome. His lavishly scaled, surrealist drawings are produced almost exclusively in graphite on paper, and inhabit a world populated by humorous and grotesque Hieronymus Bosch-like figures. With a giant eye for darkness and detail, Joe’s work embraces the strange tensions between life and death. Hi Joe, thanks for taking the time to speak with us. Pr...
With several of their artists featuring in Tiny Pencil Issue No. IV, Vanessa Amianti, Assistant Art Director at De Dominicis, took some time to share some of their thoughts on drawing and graphite in today’s commercial world… De Dominicis Agency is a creative services agency, managing projects from commission to production. They partner with high-profile, international organisations with a keen interest ...
WARNING! PLEASE NOTE! CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT! James Unsworth practices art like an inventor who creates problems instead of solving them. Taking the world view that “all human production is problematic and we’re all part of one big problem that can’t be solved”, James makes sense of the world through drawing whilst trying to find amusement along the way… What appeals to you, or attra...
LAY SOME LEAD & BURN SOME RUBBER! Listen up folks! We’ve got some exciting news! To celebrate the release of Tiny Pencil IV: Death & Resurrection we’re having a #DRAWATHON with our friends at 64 Killigrew and Atlantic Press (Check out their gorgeous books here!)! We want to see YOU and YOUR comics and drawings! Send out and share with the world your doodles, dalliances and masterpieces in lead. Fr...
Fancy a little sand and sea to go with your lead this summer? Tiny Pencil is joining Atlantic Press in Falmouth for an exhibition and series of drawing events at 64 Killigrew Street! Featuring a specially curated exhibition of original drawings, this two week mini-fest also includes special drawing events! Comics marathons, book-making sessions, drop-in pencil-drawing, and a giant collaborative pencil drawing based o...
