About Pencil Jam

Pencil Jam is a drawing academy set up specifically to teach the art and science of drawing. We use classical and modern techniques to teach drawing as art, therapy, lateral thinking and even as strategy. Pencil Jam's instructors and course developers have years of experience in drawing and teaching our students to draw-see.

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Our drawing courses are designed to work in the favour of a wide range of people interested in drawing, but with neither the time or the facilities to pursue sustained drawing practise. Our classes are categorised into structured programs, on-site workshops, studio sessions and online training courses.

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The Pencil Jam Team. Sneha, George, Smitha and Prabha.

Pencil Jam is based out of Bangalore, India and is the brainbaby of Pencil Sauce, an illustration studio.

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Ideas

The Creative Idea

Where do Great Ideas come from? Why is creativity so difficult to define, plan for and achieve. Pencil Jam was set up to discover the ways in which visual-thinking can help us see the world around us with new eyes.

The process of drawing is not just to make great looking pictures; Those are just a side effect. The real reason for drawing is to train yourself to think visually, and to bring new context to the old.

This is why we do not call ourselves an art institute. The purpose of Pencil Jam is not to promote Art in the social sense of the word. Our mission is to study the ways in which people think, and evolve systems that help individuals and organisations apply creative thinking principles to every day life.

From our Blog

Our blog features loads of useful articles and resources on drawing. Here are the latest excerpts...

March 17th
Know what P3 is? It's ?Paper, Person, Perception. The holy trinity of drawing. It's because drawing is never one sided and it's something people tend to forget all too easily. Y'see, the process of drawing actually comprises a trinity. We usually assume ...
January 2nd
Comparing Apples to Lightbulbs This post is about categorisation errors, and about how confusing such fallacies are when applied without thought. Let’s start with a simplified example. mathematician: Understand Math? Other guy: Absolutely! mathemati...
June 29th
Saturday before last, we found ourselves bright and early (at 9:3o am, haha!) on the shores of the mind bogglingly HUGE Bellandur lake. Remember, it was World Environment day then? We had our eyes open and our sketchbooks out (wands at the ready!) We f...