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Have I Introduced You To My Favourite Pencil? [XXIII]

Or… Or counting the environmental cost of a mechanical pencil

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Splashy, not Unsplashy

I am attempting to re-kindle my love of drawing, so I decided to give up on stock photos (Unsplash was my default) and turn my hand back to drawing.

My tools:

• A gravity-fed lead pencil, and
• Pixelmator (sometimes I use ‘The GIMP’ as well)

The choice of pencil was partly spurred on by me buying a tin of 76 pencils, and within a couple of months, my children had lost most of them. So I did a lot of research and finally settled on the Pacific Arc H-1309. A joy to use.

The key feature for me was:

• Lead sharpener in the cap

It is an environmentally friendly choice and should last me a lifetime — no more buying pencils for me.

Interested in seeing what it looks like?

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