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Traces of graphite – Massimo Fecchi update 2020

Traces of graphite – Massimo Fecchi update 2020

I have a small update for my 2016 blog post about Massimo Fecchi, the Italian artist who draws comimcs with the, in my opinion, best proportions, shapes and lines with beautiful variations.

Fecchi with his Rotring (Image © Massimo Fecchi)

When I asked Massimo about his pencils in 2016 he used a Rotring Tikky II for his initial drawings. Recently, he posted a photo of himself drawing for…

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Traces of graphite – Oriana Fenwick

Traces of graphite – Oriana Fenwick

Today: a very special traces of graphite post that has been in the making since April. I won’t introduce the artist – if you don’t recognise the name you will soon find out where you might have seen her work. Bleistift Blog: Thank you very much for agreeing to answer these questions. Could you please introduce yourself and your work and tell us where people might have seen your work? Oriana…

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Traces of graphite – Paul Kidby

Traces of graphite – Paul Kidby

It’s time for another Traces of Graphite blog post. All the previous blog posts in this series were Disney themed (Barks, Rosa and Fecchi), but this time the blog post is Discworld themed. Paul Kidby‘s very impressive pencil point from my previous blog post made me want to find out more about the pencils he is using to create his drawings. Paul Kidby’s pencil (image © BBC Scotland) Luckily Paul…

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Traces of graphite - Massimo Fecchi

Traces of graphite – Massimo Fecchi

Time for another traces of graphite post. As I kid I spent most of my pocket money on buying comics. Just to point it out though: in Europe the common comics at that time were not superhero comics, like in the USA. Instead the popular comics were Disney and Franco-Belgian comics. I read a lot of comics, but despite there being so many artists there’s probably no other single person that has…

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