#pentel mechanical pencil

[noxcaelestia]

If I decide to nerd out over mechanical pencils and techniques I like please don’t stop me.

I do have a secret that I can prove personally that if you’re using mechanical pencil leads from 0.2mm to 0.9mm, it doesn’t always matter the size if you’re aiming for super thin lines.

However there are many different factors at play such as the brands and hardnesses you’re most comfortable with of pencils and leads, the surface you’re drawing on and your drawing stance/position that’s most comfortable also. Oh and if you’re looking to finely polish minute details.

I grip the pencil firmly in my most comfortable position and lightly glide the pencil on the surface. The harder you press (carefully since the lead will break), naturally the thicker the lines. You just get more range with larger pencils.

Also a universal technique, gently sand down the pencil lead on a surface diagonally then you get an even smaller point on one end and you cover more surface area on the other end.

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

Pentel Automatic Pencils Refill Erasers

1990s

Found on Ebay, user ourfinefinds

[lycomorpha]

If I could only have 1 pencil to use for the rest of my life it would be a Pentel P203 mechanical pencil.

(Realistically tho... I have uh, a few of those...)

Any fellow spoonie/disabled artists with creaky hands? That grey pencil holder is made from hardware shop pipe lagging. Super-cheap, fits every pencil & pencil extender I own better than any other things I've tried! 💖✏️

[brunostracqua]

[eggbunni]

Beauty shots of my current favorite mechanical pencils in my collection. 😍 They make me a better artist. 😏 … Just kidding. But they sure do look pretty and feel nice + premium to hold. 🤩

[databent]

its just me and my favorite pencil against the world...

[forgottenbones]

Pentel Sharp is Everything You Need To Start Drawing

[idrawprettyboys]

"Charles Kissing Edwin's Neck"

Charles looks rather vampire-like here, doesn't he? I like how sweet and steamy this picture turned out.

Tools used: Canson watercolor paper, Pentel Click 0.7 mechanical pencil, Pentel Polymer eraser, Sakura Pigma Micron 01 pen, Mei Liang watercolor paints, Sakura Koi watercolor paints, Sakura GellyRoll white pen, Pentel Aquash brush

Reference Pose

You can watch the time-lapse video of my painting process on YouTube!

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[bleistiftblog]

Latex-free grip ‘pips’ for added comfort and control

Latex-free grip ‘pips’ for added comfort and control

I really like my Christmas gift: a set of Graphgear mechanical pencils in 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.7 and 0.9. The official price for one in the UK is £26.68 ((except the 0.4 mm version which isn’t officially available in the UK)), but you can get a set of five, with different lead diameters, for under £35. Pentel’s Orenz is a mechanical pencil I use often, but I haven’t had the pleasure of using…

[orlandrake]

Last One in the chamber, make it count.

I’m down to very last lead of my Pentel 0.9mm Blue lead, which is no longer in production and impossible to find online. Virtually no one else but a Chinese company I found on Amazon makes 0.9mm colored lead.

So I sketched a little tribute with what little I’ve got left of my favorite lead to my favorite lead.

[morningstarbee]

the office job being a parody of The Office is very funny to me

lmao what the hell is going on

i love them

them arguing about eliot's sandwich i love them

artist brain recognizing the Pentel Col-Erase pencils, the copic sketch markers, the sharpies, and the pencil parker was using earlier was either the Pentel P205 drafting/mechanical pencil, or the Staedler Mars technico lead holder in blue.

THEYRE STILL ARGUING ABOUT THE SANDWICH

to be fair, that sandwich sounds delicious and i would also be mad if someone ate it

parker can actually draw well too??

so hardison can do fucking oil paintings and statues and forgeries, and parker can actuall do really cute cartoons and lettering???

hardison and eliot both yelling at the documentary crew director to leave parker the fuck alone and come with them

eliot saving hardison from falling off the building

"Nobody throws Hardison off a roof." (After beating the fuck out of the guy who did)

parker and eliot giggling about the german filmmaker LMAO

NOT HARDISON ACTUALLY HAVING ATE TEH SANDWICH LMAO

"What? Boy can cook!" yknow if you ask your boyfriend im sure he'll make one for you instead of stealing his....

[jccatstudios]

do you draw these by hand? If not, what patform do you use? If you do, with what utensils :0?? asking for me. I wanna know

It’s a blend of both! Most of everything in black (save for a few edits here and there) is traditional. I draw on 11”x17” Strathmore smooth Bristol board. Here are my main tools.

Sketches are done with a .5 mechanical pencil with H lead. Characters outlines are drawn with the G-pen. Backgrounds are drawn with Copic multiliners and the Hunt 102. Dark shiny stuff is rendered with a Kuretake brush pen. Black shapes are filled in with brushes and Pentel pigment pens. Corrections and white effects are done with Copic opaque white ink (I have two bottles, a different consistency in each for different purposes). I use the Kuretake black ink 60 for nib and brush work.

After all the line art is done, I scan in my pages and the rest is done digitally. The gray tones were made from an ink wash I did. It’s just darkened and lightened to suit the value of whatever it fills. The speech bubbles and lettering are digital too. I do this all in Clip Studio Paint Pro. I use a Wacom Intuos Pro M.

[sha-biest]

Hello! First off, your comics are so FUDGING cute. And now, my question~

What kind of tools do you preferably use while drawing? (Pencil brand, sketch book brand, etc etc)

Thank you!! ❤❤❤ I typically order the same sketchbook off amazon (I'm from germany so idk if you'd be able to get the same one) It has thicker paper which makes it a lot nicer to draw on it and it just doesn't crumble up as easily!

For sketching I use mechanical pencils, mostly by faber castell and pentel Pentel colored mines in blue and red (I like to do rough sketches with those) and normal faber castell mine for normal sketches. I also like to use the pentel Orenz which is holds a VERY fine mine (0.2mm) You can see some of the red lines in this sketch:

My go to products when it comes to pencils is usually Faber Castell, I grew up using the brand and I love it to this day!

[foxglovefaun]

Hey yo!! I was just lookin over ur sketchbooks stuff, which is,,,,so grand and soulful I can’t put much words to it and wanted to ask do u use a specific type of pencil? Or any special thing like that?

thank you so much!! <3 ;0; my sketchbook is my safe place rn, so this means a lot. and i do! i have a lot of specific pencils. i have a series of tools that are in my everyday artbox, and i've narrowed down a collection that's been pretty reliable for me. i can introduce you! :) ...ok but r u ready for a infodump because

ok this is my everyday Graphite Mechanical Pencil Squad. I always have them in my box and i use them for just about every pencil drawing in my sketchbook.

(I added a post break because I didn’t think about it before :3 )

from top to bottom: - Steadtler: Mars Technico 2.0 -> used for longer pencil studies and anatomy stuff, as well as experiments with comic-style hatching. has a tiny built-in sharpener! I like using this for drawing the base for portraits coz it's got a real consistent value - Sakura: Sumo Grip 0.7 -> comfy. :) big. :) - Tombow: Mono Graph 0.5 -> my current baseline. I've used this pencil since 2021 when i first started recovering from burnout. I really like its weight balance, as the feed end is quite heavy. This pencil was engineered for writing though, so while it has a "rotating lead mechanism", it doesn't activate while I'm drawing. Apparently it's supposed to rotate the lead as you write so it stays sharp. :0 - Uni: Kuru Toga 0.3 -> very lightweight, sometimes feels fragile but is durable as hell. I use this for really fine lines, like details in the eyes or hatching around the nose in really small portraits. I used to use this size more in college, but I use it less nowadays.

speakin of that damb MonoGraph, i have S e v e r a l

I have six currently, which feels like a bananas number of mechanicals to carry at one time, but five of them carry different color leads that i use super regularly so i ignore this.

you probably are familiar with my multi-color sketches with blue and red and pink n stuff, and these are what i use for that. sometimes i use light blue to sketch, then clean it up with the dark blue, and then add portrait details with red. Other times i sketch with pink and then define everything with purple. anyway

i load them all up with Uni Nano Dia color leads. Historically I've used Pentel red leads and Prismacolor Col-Erase wood pencils, but these are my favorite now. They are all erasable and erase pretty well! (The lavender does not specify that it is erasable, but i assure you, it will submit to an eraser.)

speakin of erasers. This has actually been the most difficult squad to narrow down, as erasers are all super different from one another, even within the same brand. Sometimes they smear my shit, sometimes they rip up the paper, sometimes they lift okay but still leave a ghost. not these. These guys are reliable. They help me move. They text me back. - Muji: plastic eraser, hard type, black -> this was my biggest most recent surprise. Muji has very affordable minimalist materials that can look cheap on the surface level, but tbh I've never had an eraser serve me so well. When it comes to erasable marks, it lifts EVERYTHING off of my Talens sketchbook. I wish it came in a stick format for more control, but the brick will have to do for now. - Tombow: Mono Stick, plastic eraser -> bless. Soft to the touch but doesn't need a shit ton of pressure to lift stuff out and clean up. Performs consistently and creates a super clear surface. My favorite standard-sized stick eraser, hands down. - Tombow: Mono Knock -> badass. I've had this thing in my arsenal since 2008. I found my first pink one in Japantown San Francisco and carried it all the way to QC with me in 2020. It was finally put to rest after it broke in 2022, and was immediately replaced with the green one. It's kind of hard for an eraser, which is good because the skinny ones can tear under pressure, but it's precise, clean, and usually lifts everything out. Excellent for portraiture. It's also great for drawing on its own and I'll draw highlights or carve out shapes in big smudgy fields of grey. I highly recommend this tool. - Tombow: Mono Zero, elastomer eraser -> weird. so smol. does cool shit tho. This is my smallest eraser ever, and it took a while to find one in stock. It is so very fine that it has its own refill method and part of it is reinforced with plastic. It's clean tho, and so goddamb precise. - Kneaded eraser, brand ???? i dont remember, probably Mars : I love my kneaded eraser. I've always used it to press and lift when it comes to sketchbook stuff, but i recently learned that you can just kinda ROLL IT across your surface and it will lighten EVERYTHING, EVENLY. I lost my shit tbh, nobody ever told me I could use it like that and now I get legit excited to use it. Very satisfying. But also very sticky and sometimes Bad Texture, so I keep it in a little tin. along with the whole series i described, I also carry these with me in my box. Just misc tools that also live here. Tiny sharpener, blenders, supplementary erasers and pencils.

I also have a small frame-style box that I keep my basic wood drawing pencils in, as well as the tiny eraser and the 2.0 pencil because they fit. :)

Everyone lives in here, and i like that the box can sorta serve as a work surface too, using the lid like a lil table. It's also easy AF to just toss everything in there, so cleaning up my workspace takes less than a minute now.

i use all of these whenever doin sketchbook stuff. I always keep them in my newest travel box, which has served me very well when going down the avenue to draw outside. :)

i hope this gives u some feedback for choosing your own tools! :D I get my materials from all over the place, but when I was picking up the Mono Graphs en masse I was getting them from Stationery Pal at a pretty significant discount.

thank u for ur interest. :3 I have been wanting to assemble a post like this for a while and it felt good to just sit n think about my tools for a little bit. anyway. :3 take care. thanks <3 Hope this answered your question! (and hope it wasnt too much lmao sdfjkgskdjhfkjshd)

[isbahstudio]

Backpack Essentials

Here's what I keep in my backpack for un:

🟣 Water Bottle - always stay hydrated.

🟣 Multi-Subject Spiral Notebook - I hate clunky binders. Carrying many notebooks becomes heavy quickly. Multi-subject notebooks were the best in between.

🟣 Yellow Legal Pad - I make review sheets and practice for exams on this.

🟣 Pencil Case - with gel pens, specifically Pilot G2 and Pentel Energel X pens, pastel highlighters, and mechanical pencils.

🟣 Post It Notes & Sticky Notes - to annotate and tab.

🟣 Planner - to plan and schedule deadlines and important reminders.

🟣 Book - a book to read for leisure in breaks.

🟣 Multi-Pocket Folder - one folder to carry it all.

🟣 Girly Pouch - makeup, hygiene, mini skincare, hair accessories, etc.

🟣 Keys & Wallet & Phone & Headphones

🟣 Small lunch or snack

[vaxxman]

How good are Muji pencils actually? I don't have a Muji shop where I live but I keep seeing people using them and I'm considering ordering one.

Oh. I'm a bit of a bad person to ask this.

As in you activated my trap card, mechanical pencil trivia be upon you.

I know people will swear by Muji stationery, but I am picky about them. The Muji pencil in the previous picture is one that is extremely reminiscent of another pencil that is actually made by LAMY and specifically balanced for designers and architects. So that MUJI pencil that looks like it, I can recommend that one.

I rotate between that MUJI ABS Resin 0.5, a (vintage) ROTRING Tikky Special 0.5, a PENTEL Orenz Nero 0.5, and a FABER CASTELL GRIP 1345 0.5. That's 4 mechanical pencils I like using.