Pens or pencils? What do you use?
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Topic: Pens or pencils? What do you use?
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Subject: Pens or pencils? What do you use?
Date Posted: 27 December 2005 at 6:08pm
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Yay another off topic thing! So what do you use and why? ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/"> 
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Posted By: Souly
Date Posted: 27 December 2005 at 6:35pm
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What ever is in my hand at the time. I love to sketch, I don't care what it's with. |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 27 December 2005 at 7:59pm
I work the same when i'm making a game and need concept art. But when making regular art I like the pencils yay for mechanical pencils. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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Posted By: Akira
Date Posted: 27 December 2005 at 9:41pm
| I use both. Sometimes on the same piece. I have plenty of tools for the job (100+ pens & a full set of mechanical pencils & leads & charcoals) though i stick with a black ballpoint and 2b mostly :P |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 27 December 2005 at 9:45pm
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Originally posted by Akira
I use both. Sometimes on the same piece. I have plenty of tools for the job (100+ pens & a full set of mechanical pencils & leads & charcoals) though i stick with a black ballpoint and 2b mostly :P Lol nice! I bet you have a huge professional set that has like 20 fold out compartments and special locked drawers. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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Posted By: iSTVAN
Date Posted: 27 December 2005 at 10:46pm
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I've drawn the last two episodes of my http://www.pixeljoint.com/istvan/blackhole.swf - Black Hole series entirely and directly with pen. It's just a cheap biro, but its perfect for what I want. It allows me to control the boldness/thickness of the line without bothering with any messy pencil rubbin' out. I've experimented with various methods, and my current one is by far the most effective. I also value the computer (even MS Paint) as a formadable friend to hand drawing. I edit many of my hand drawn cartoons using paint or graphics gale. Clean up this, rub out that. It's nice to know you can always save things incase you stuff up! I'd like to work a bit more in Photoshop, but I simply haven't yet. And Pixel Outlaw, I've seen far more pointless topics! |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 29 December 2005 at 7:18pm
Duuude the Black Hole gas a mega lump in his pants. Be it a man diaper or a Huge storage compartment? I shutter to think it is any other type or growth..... ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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Posted By: Lozzoling
Date Posted: 06 January 2006 at 12:19pm
| pencil still life = my speciality |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 06 January 2006 at 1:48pm
| stylus |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 12:07pm
MS paint doesn't have pens.  I use pencils in the real world or whatever they call it these days.------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: acrylicana
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 12:14pm
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I use a variety of media. My favorite is graphite, mos def. I use a range of types..from 6H - 8B, Ebony, woodless, colored Prismacolors, oil pencils, watercolor pencils, charcoal, and pastel pencils. Also, I'm fond of using charcoal (vine/willow/compressed) and pastel (Nupastel by Prismacolor are by far my absolute favorites). As for pens, they're great to doodle with in margins while taking notes in class (a habit I've been trying to kick for the past decade or so, but simply cannot). Faber-Castell makes these great sketch pens/markers, actually. They've got india ink in them, so they're quite vivid and do a great job for inking pictures on bristol board (so in love with that paper). I have to stop now...I might talk for hours on art supplies...oh, I can't wait until the new semseter starts..back in the studio again. :D (figure 2) |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 12:40pm
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Yeah my teckers and mom have screamed at me for doodles on my homework for years too.(my mom teaches 1st grade). I used to draw in the margins all the time. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 1:30pm
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i like a combo of HB 2B and 4B pencils. uhm.. fineliners and markers rule for silhouette stuff and i tried gouache but meh. graphite isnt my fav. either oh, and i got this way cheapass mech. pencil that i found somewhere in class on my last school last year, i dont know what size/hardness pencils it contains, but i love em and theśre still not out! YAY! ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Brian the Great
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 1:35pm
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I use pen. My pen is Christian so I use pencils on sundays.
My pen doesn't like my pencil. :( ------------- http://www.twoschizos.com"> 
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Posted By: Shark
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 2:51pm
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i use finliners or biros at my desk, however i prefer pencils. if
anyone is loving enough please post some pencils to me. |
Posted By: Skaterboy J
Date Posted: 07 January 2006 at 3:10pm
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sharp pencil, usually about 2-4b ------------- "I reject your reality and substitute my own!" |