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* This weekend is the opening weekend of the new Doctor Strange film. I've seen the first several dozen times. I used to intensely look forward to the next film. But, I've completely lost interest. I've lost interest so much that I meant to post about this Friday or Saturday, but just forgot.
I'm not going to list out the reasons why my interest in MCU is dead because some of you might still be into it. It's just... weird to think about how this was the thing I looked forward to so much.
* I did what I swore I'd never do: I bought some Blackwing pencils. My first impression was 'wow, do some people just not know how art pencils work and have never used a 2b or 4b?' Also, as soon I got them home I realized that you can't use a standard pencil extender on these very spendy pencils due to the overly designed eraser. Unless you break the eraser off, which I 100% will do. Turns out, Blackwing does make extenders that work with their pencils... but I think snapping the end and using a standard extender might work better.
Using them for sketching they are slowly growing on me. They don't smudge as bad or do the thing where it some of it transfers to the opposing page in your sketchbook when you close it. I had to rub two pages together to get the graphite to transfer. They also seem to leave like 0 loose graphite dust, and I am used to having to 'sweep' pencil drawings regularly. I have a goat-hair brush on my desk for this. I am still side-eyeing the price and the design choices, but I am grudgingly seeing why some people get attached to these. If sketching-on-the-go is your jam, these are good pencils for it. Or at least better than the art pencils I've used. I am using to thinking that well-shaded pencil drawings can't stay nice in a sketchbook, and ones using Blackwings might.
This may be another case of me being overly judgey of spendy art supplies being dumb and leading to me struggling with smudges and other stuff unnecessarily. In my defense, a store near me sells them for $14 a pop instead of the three bucks they should be. So, my initial impression was very 'what is this hipster bullshit?' But, that is also why I recently tracked some down to actually try them and see if they were hipster bullshit. The first thing I learned is that the tiny stationary store near me sells them for insaneballs prices.
I'm not going to list out the reasons why my interest in MCU is dead because some of you might still be into it. It's just... weird to think about how this was the thing I looked forward to so much.
* I did what I swore I'd never do: I bought some Blackwing pencils. My first impression was 'wow, do some people just not know how art pencils work and have never used a 2b or 4b?' Also, as soon I got them home I realized that you can't use a standard pencil extender on these very spendy pencils due to the overly designed eraser. Unless you break the eraser off, which I 100% will do. Turns out, Blackwing does make extenders that work with their pencils... but I think snapping the end and using a standard extender might work better.
Using them for sketching they are slowly growing on me. They don't smudge as bad or do the thing where it some of it transfers to the opposing page in your sketchbook when you close it. I had to rub two pages together to get the graphite to transfer. They also seem to leave like 0 loose graphite dust, and I am used to having to 'sweep' pencil drawings regularly. I have a goat-hair brush on my desk for this. I am still side-eyeing the price and the design choices, but I am grudgingly seeing why some people get attached to these. If sketching-on-the-go is your jam, these are good pencils for it. Or at least better than the art pencils I've used. I am using to thinking that well-shaded pencil drawings can't stay nice in a sketchbook, and ones using Blackwings might.
This may be another case of me being overly judgey of spendy art supplies being dumb and leading to me struggling with smudges and other stuff unnecessarily. In my defense, a store near me sells them for $14 a pop instead of the three bucks they should be. So, my initial impression was very 'what is this hipster bullshit?' But, that is also why I recently tracked some down to actually try them and see if they were hipster bullshit. The first thing I learned is that the tiny stationary store near me sells them for insaneballs prices.
