Our story
We are a unique community, designed to actually help you improve your sketching skills through a number of resources. The community also allows you to network with other skechers, illustrations, designers, artists while you learn, experiment, participate in events and much much more. You will find this website to be a resource and a compendium of information about sketching, drawing and painting. We recommend that you explore it systematically, and bookmark those sections that you find of value.
Penciljammers celebrating a decade of drawing, we had a lovely Picnic! (2019)
The Penciljammers community was started in 2009 for the love of drawing by Penciljam. Initially set up as an off-line group to draw in their sketchbooks with their friends. Penciljammers has held over 1000 weekend sketching meets in Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Kerala. Inspiring many more to set up their own weekend drawing clubs.
The community started with "Focus on objective and often representative visuals." We continue to encourage this line of thought as drawing from observation helps you form a good foundation. Figurative, observational or representational art allows us to evaluate our skills and techniques, and learn as we go along, which holds true even when sketch journaling or illustrating. Over the past decade penciljammers has evolved from purely representational art to sketching and sketch journaling. Digital, sheets of paper ,sketchbook anything that works for you!