3 – BEST DRAWING PENCILS FOR GESTURE, SKETCHING AND REALISTIC PENCIL DRAWING

So Free Art Podcast Episode 3 - Best Drawing Pencils, with Transgender Artist, Sophie Lawson

Welcome to episode three of the So Free Art Podcast, a lil podcast about Art and tings :) This one’s all about DRAWING PENCILS, not so much the best pencils for drawing, more my personal favourite pencils for: 

  • gesture drawing,
  • figure drawing,
  • sketching,
  • and realistic pencil drawing.

LINKS

FUN PENCIL FACTS
Pencils.com – 10 little known facts about pencils

Discover Magazine – 20 things you didn’t know about pencils
igentry – interesting facts about pencils

PENCILS
Recommended Art Tools Page

STAEDTLER MARS TECHNICO 2mm CLUTCH PENCILS
5.6mm KOH-I-NOOR HARDTMUTH 6B CLUTCH PENCIL
5.6mm KOH-I-NOOR HARDTMUTH MAGIC CLUTCH PENCIL
SAKURA SUMO GRIP PENCILS – WHITE LEAD (Jackson’s Art Supplies)

PENTEL ARTS 8 COLOR AUTOMATIC PENCIL (Amazon) – can’t find the coloured Pentel mechanical pencils I use, but this one looks so cool, I might have to buy it :)

EXTRAS
YouTubevideo of the worlds largest pencil – not the one mentioned on the show, that one is no longer the largest :)

LESLIE SAETA’S 30 IN 30 PAINTING CHALLENGE :)
• MY WHITE PENCIL DRAWING – created with the Sakura Sumo Grip Pencil

” ART ENABLES US TO FIND OURSELVES, AND LOSE OURSELVES AT THE SAME TIME

– Thomas Merton