Drawing the OCs of others is always a harrowing experience---many things can go wrong, esp. when one (such as myself) has the artistic skills of an ameba, hence I used a reference ...and methinks I was looking at it a bit too hard: https://inkbunny.net/s/2256370
Also: glasses. Because the scale I draw at is so small, my lines don't vary much in thickness, so the specs are a bit hard to distinguish, but rest assured they're there. ^^
Hey, with One-Cent ACO, one gets what one pays for ...and this art was free, so that's really really true in this case! Anyway, my watchers aren't known for being picky (they can't be---they're watching me, after all), so yeah. ^^
Anyway...
One watcher asked about colored pencils: do I have any vintage ones?
Dear Lord yes, but I don't often feature them, for obvious reasons. That said, I have a particularly nice red Johann Faber I may feature before I die. Beyond that, insofar as the very oldest stuff goes, I have an assortment of red and blue checking/proofreading pencils (respectively). These were in production before any colored pencils were made for artistic endeavors, so some of mine predate the 1920s, when colored pencil art became a thing.
Our featured pencil...
The featured pencil is the 'Beldaire' by Western Pencil Co.
Western Pencil Co. is an insanely rare and obscure brand---I'm not likely to come across another of their pencils in my lifetime! The factory this pencil was made in burned to the ground in 1927 ...so this pencil is at least 95 years old, as of writing (mine would be a later model, given the standard length of its ferrule).
Reading the article you linked to I came to the part where they mentioned an InkPencil. I thought such an writing tool only existed in George Orwell's "1984" specifically where Julia hands Smith the "one he dropped" on the pretext to give him her note.
I'm sure that one is different from the one in the article but it's interesting to know it was based on a real item.
And as always the image is cute and the featured pencil is fascinating as always. :)
Reading the article you linked to I came to the part where they mentioned an InkPencil. I thought su
Ink pencils have special dyes mixed into the graphite. One of the more well-known ones are the NoBlots from Eberhard Faber, "A bottle of ink in a pencil"!
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Ink pencils have special dyes mixed into the graphite. One of the more well-known ones are the NoBlo
Now that you mention it I DO remember those. I might even have one somewhere in the mass of old drawing / writing instruments I'm STILL finding to share. (I really need to organize things!)
Now that you mention it I DO remember those. I might even have one somewhere in the mass of old draw
