A Community for People who Love Drawing on Location.
Penciljam is a community that gets together on weekends to draw. We fill our sketchbooks with drawings of places, people, culture and heritage across India.
It’s free to join, and you don’t have to be an artist – just bring a sketchbook, a pencil, and a curious mind.
Grab a Sketchbook and Come Draw with us.
Join our Community
Our online community is a great space for inspiration. Meet other artists, participate in workshops, share your art and join in each week for physical meet ups at various locations.
Upcoming Events
Penciljam Bengaluru at BlrLitfest (14th & 15th)
See our Events Page for upcoming events.
What our Community Members say
“Penciljam’s on location weekend jamming sessions, challenged me to work from live subjects. Apart from working on improving my skills, I also made a few friends who I keep in touch with and exchange ideas, artworks.“
Prasad Natarajan, Penciljam Member
Prasad Natarajan is a Wildlife Artist and the Founder of AWN-Artists for Wildlife and Nature
FAQs
Pages from our Journal
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Why are these nibs so weird? Meet the Fude nib
My tool of choice for drawing on location is the brush. This simple tool offers me so much variation that I always keep a brush pen of some sort close at hand. When I’m not drawing with a brush pen however, my next go-to art tool is a special kind of fountain pen. One with…
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All art is craft – Adolph Menzel
You’ve probably never heard of Adolph Menzel. Not many people have, however his views on the true nature of art are as real as it gets and his work backs it up.
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When a cheap ballpoint pen meets a talented artist
There is a certain charm to pen and ink illustrations. In a world filled with brash and garish digital illustrations, the humble pen and ink harks back to a simpler age. Once abundant in magazines, owing to their ability to reproduce well in print, this stark and exacting illustration style is fading in the Photoshop…