If a painter paints, what do you call an artist who use pencils as his or her tool?

Answer 1

An illustrator. Sketches can be done in any medium so I'd not consider him or her a sketch artist. Illustrators, generally, do their work only in 2D forms and use pen and ink, pencils, or charcoal and, sometimes, markers, coloured pencils, pastels, water colours, gouache, or, even, thinned acrylics to add colour.

Answer 2

That's really a very good question!
I don't think there is a specific title for this type of creator, perhaps because most fine artworks are not not usually done in this media, and most artists do not specialize in pencil for their main body of work. (Although I did have a teacher who did some huge drawings in graphite, and also colored pencil, that were complete [fully realized] artworks).
I guess you would call this person an artist, and then qualify it with 'whose-media-is-graphite-pencil'.

Note: if the artist does not do fine art, then it is appropriate to use the label 'illustrator', 'sketch artist', 'pencil artist' (i.e., for commercial art), whatever fits.

Answer 3

Well, I'll try to give you a few quick pointers. You need to prime your canvas (coat it with gesso) before you paint on it to keep acidic oils away from the canvas fibers. If you are buying pre-stretched canvases, they are already primed. Fat over thin refers to using paints with faster drying properties under those that take longer to dry so that your surface doesn't crack. Painting with paints straight out of the tube applied with a palette knife is a perfectly acceptable technique. But, you might want to consider thinning your oils and experimenting with other methods. You thin oils with a number of substances, but you can use straight turpentine, if you like. However, this will make the surface dull, and possibly more brittle. The fluid you use to thin your paint is called a medium. I use two parts turpentine, one part stand oil and one part damar varnish. As the painting progresses, I decrease the turpentine until the composition is 1-1-1. Other artists have different formulas; some include exotic things like walnut oil, or cobalt siccative. You can use anything you like to put the paint on the canvas. Most of us use brushes, and, incidentally, just because a brush is labeled "watercolor" doesn't mean it can't be used for oils. You can use sponges, rags, teaspoons, just about anything. But, it's best not to use your fingers, as some of the materials you're working with are not the best thing to get into your bloodstream (and, turpentine makes it possible to absorb these things directly through the skin!). Sorry if I've gone on, a bit. Feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions, and I'll do my best to point you in the right direction. Good luck!

Answer 4

An artist is an artist... regardless of the means he uses to create art. But using paint doesn't make you an artist. Just because a painter can reproduce a scene perfectly, does not make him an artist. That just makes him/her a Xerox machine.
Art should say something in way that conventional ways of communication does not adequately say.

Answer 5

Sketch artist.

Answer 6

Sketch artist.

Answer 7

A sketch Artist or a cartoonist in my case.

Answer 8

"A draughtsman" is the technical term.

Really! That is the exact name for a person who draws!

Answer 9

SKETCH ARTIST

Answer 10

painter