Joshua is an illustrator working in Folkestone, Kent. A recent graduate from UCA-Maidstone, drawing has always been a great passion of Joshua’s for as long as he can remember. Nothing gives him more pleasure than sitting down and immersing himself in a piece of work. Creating imagery with a range of different media that frequently include pencil and Photoshop, his personal work has a resonant, emotional quality...
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...
Drawing reference from the glacial nomadic landscapes of Northern Poland to the bustling city streets of Paris, illustrator Joanna Concejo’s background is a major inspiration to her. This results in graphite and colour pencil works that bloom and breathe with nature’s movements and human narratives. She contributed to Death and Resurrection with a twist on the Red Riding Hood fairytale. ~Interview by Ysabelle Cheung....
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...
Okay folks it’s news-breaking time! We are finally able to announce the winning entries from our #DrawAThon – held with Atlantic Press and 64 Killigrew Street and featuring PRIZES from Derwent Pencils! But first, A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS and THANK YOU to everyone who joined us. We were blown away by all the gorgeous art and the sheer joy of sharing pencil love and had an enormously hard time trying to choos...
Born and raised in China, illustrator and animator Jun Cen is now currently based in New York. He received his MFA degree from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2013 and his work has been selected into Society of Illustrators, American Illustration and Society of Illustrators Los Angeles. Interview by Ysabelle Cheung. You studied in Guangzhou and then Maryland. Those two places couldn’t be more different – ...
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 ...
