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A Case for Pencils: Interview with Cartoonist Tom Gauld
- Daub 5y ago> Tool I wish existed: A paintbrush with an undo setting. Amen brother. As regards the role of pencils in the creative process, the author seems to primitise it’s role as a tool for development, less so for authorship. I can concur. Working things out seems so much easier in pencil than in digital anything. For me, this is a tactile thing… graphite is after all, a lubricant, and paper is pretty much a skin. Anything past the development (sketching) stage is pretty much post-Morten. For the last 100 years, finalization has required mediums which reproduce effectively using photo-reproduction: pen, ink and suchlike.
- throwawayboise 5y agoI like pencils -- real wooden ones that you need to sharpen. I have a small collection of them in various hardnesses, mostly for note-taking and working out ideas. I'm not an artist; I don't sketch with them, excluding simple flowchart-type diagrams. They always work, the lines don't fade or bleed, they can write in any position, when you use them up the stub is biodegradable, not a plastic shell that will sit in a landfill for 200 years. I think pencils for everyday writing and refillable/fountain pens for stuff that really needs to be indelible are the best combination.
- doe88 5y agoWhat's funny is that several of his New Yorker covers are - amazingly - more than simple drawings.
- viraj_shah 5y agoFor my analog fans and family. Check out Blackwing pencils. Get the sampler or the 602 (most popular).