Blackwing! yaaaasssss! After working with a pencil that only drew the faintest lines for YEARS, i discovered 1) blackwings are awesome! and 2) that I actually prefer a pencil with a darker mark. And now I almost exclusively draw with blackwings when I'm working in pencil. And to support them so they don't go out of business again, I subscribe to their quarterly pencil subscription and get a fun and unique color and story for each set of pencils I get (still with normal lead in one of 3 hardness options). The one I'm currently using is green with gold stamping, but i'm excited to finish that one and start using the purple pencil with the purple eraser that celebrates 100 years of women's suffrage! And the removable erasers are fantastic when I get hyper on erasing all my bad drawing lines. :)
Hey Gail, I love that you use the Blackwing! Do you not use a separate block eraser for getting rid of extra lines? How do you survive with just the nubby eraser?!
Most of the time I use a kneaded eraser so that I don't get any of the eraser detritus. Plus it minimizes the amount of smearing on my final artwork. But if I am not using that or don't have one handy, I do like the wide-but-narrow Blackwing eraser. I can erase a point or a whole section depending on how I hold it.
Blackwing! yaaaasssss! After working with a pencil that only drew the faintest lines for YEARS, i discovered 1) blackwings are awesome! and 2) that I actually prefer a pencil with a darker mark. And now I almost exclusively draw with blackwings when I'm working in pencil. And to support them so they don't go out of business again, I subscribe to their quarterly pencil subscription and get a fun and unique color and story for each set of pencils I get (still with normal lead in one of 3 hardness options). The one I'm currently using is green with gold stamping, but i'm excited to finish that one and start using the purple pencil with the purple eraser that celebrates 100 years of women's suffrage! And the removable erasers are fantastic when I get hyper on erasing all my bad drawing lines. :)
Hey Gail, I love that you use the Blackwing! Do you not use a separate block eraser for getting rid of extra lines? How do you survive with just the nubby eraser?!
Most of the time I use a kneaded eraser so that I don't get any of the eraser detritus. Plus it minimizes the amount of smearing on my final artwork. But if I am not using that or don't have one handy, I do like the wide-but-narrow Blackwing eraser. I can erase a point or a whole section depending on how I hold it.