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Those who are curious about the tools part.. He uses Mitsubishi Uni pencils. His recommendation of sharpening the pencils "[Make the exposed pencil lead long]
by achow 2y ago
Those who are curious about the tools part..
He uses Mitsubishi Uni pencils. His recommendation of sharpening the pencils "[Make the exposed pencil lead long] By making it sharp and long, the sharp will continue and it is easy to re-sharpen"
His YouTube video [1] shows his collection of pencils (the various grades) and the meticulous attention to pencil sharpening - which seems to be in two stages, the first is using a normal mechanical pencil sharpener and then the second stage is handcrafting the length of the lead.
[1] https://youtu.be/gSXBsItNMcM https://youtu.be/gSXBsItNMcM
- kqr 2y agoI have always argued that knife is the best way to sharpen pencils. Glad to have at least a little support in that!
- smokel 2y agoTo make the point evenly round and extremely sharp, one can use fine sandpaper as a last step. For this kind of work with graphite the sharp point holds for quite a while. Color pencil artists tend to sharpen a lot more, and use automatic pencil sharpeners. And a lot of pencils. I prefer to sharpen a few pencils in batches. Especially when using charcoal pencils, things become messy real fast.