ICM - Leeds Design Agency

Cath Riley has got the sort of skills with a pencil that are so good it is hard to comprehend exactly how she does it…these stunning pencil illustrations are truly exquisite. She has an amazing grasp of the subtilties of the human form, especially the texture and elasticity of human skin and the proportions of complex features like faces and hands.

Check out other drawings at www.cathriley.com...

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Paper – the thin material mainly used for writing, printing, drawing on or used in packaging. Produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, then drying them into flexible sheets. Paper is a versatile material with many uses. Whilst the most common is for writing and printing on, it is also used in many cleaning products, in a number of industrial and construction processes, and even as a food ingredient.

But what type of paper do you use: Wove, Smooth, Laid, Linen, Laser, Coated, Uncoated, Coated One Side, Coated Two Sides. What Weight, Opacity and Brightness. Do you need Offset, Cover, Tag or Index stocks, it can go on and on.

Me, I like things a bit different like the paper sculptures of Jeff Nishinaka.

Check out other creations at www.jeffnishinaka.com/...

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Dalton Ghetti’s idea is to bring people’s attention to small things, like items you sometimes take for granted. Most of the pencils and materials he uses are found just discarded on the streets. To create the sculpture, he holds the pencil in his hand under a strong light source and carves it mostly with a sewing needle and a very sharp, triangular, small, metal blade. He works very slowly by removing specks of graphite at a time. It therefore takes months or sometimes years to complete a sculpture.

Check out other pencils at www.daltonmghetti.com...

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