I feel bad wasting my Moleskine pages on such casual sketches, collecting peoples faces and gestures, people, who I may never see again in my life, for a few minutes appreciating their inner beauty, admire their movements, shapes of their nostrils, respecting their moods, getting richer in feelings and forgetting it all when my Subway stop comes or my name called to go to the doctor. But what is better than pull out Moleskine and Palomino Blackwing 602?
RP 11:32 pm on December 23, 2011 | #
That’s not a waste at all. Your trompe l’oeil effect with the imaginary Micron pen totally fooled me. I was wondering why you photographed a Micron on your Moleskine when you were bragging on the PB 602 you used to do the sketches. Only after I looked again did I realize you fooled my eye. Well done! (Oh, the Palomino Blackwing 602 is a great pencil.)
RP 12:47 pm on December 24, 2011 | #
And trying to understand both why I was fooled in the first place and subsequently was able to unravel the visual deception, I now realize that in the first case it was because of the extra dimensionality of the faux Micron pen virtually embodied above your graphite character sketches, and in the second case because one can see the underlying sketches through the Micron, albeit only translucently, as opposed to transparently. I hope you continue your fool-the-eye experiment–it is great fun for the viewer.
RP 12:58 pm on December 24, 2011 | #
Sorry to go on here, but also adding to the heightened realism and dimensionality of the Micron is the fact that it is done in color versus the underlying monotone of the drawings, and gives the appearance of light reflecting from a fully dimensional body. I’ll shut my yap now :^).
Nikira 10:57 pm on December 24, 2011 | #
Thank you very much RP. I often draw my art tools on the top of quick pencil sketches because I love, collect and appreciate old and modern pencils and pens, paints, paint boxes. I didn’t try to fool the eye. Just have great fun drawing pencils. I have some as old as a century, and use it for drawing. Now can’t get enough of Blackwing 602, Palomino and the old one, Eberhard Faber. Also it makes me feel that I use Moleskine’s paper to the fuller extend.
One day I want to brush primer over some people’s pages and do sketches in color on the top.
Margie 9:11 am on December 26, 2011 | #
Nikira, I, too, am addicted to the Palomino Blackwing pencils. I just bought some from Jetpens a month ago – best pencils ever! The erasers are great, too! If you don’t know about http://www.Jetpens.com, you will love the site.
Nikira 2:07 pm on December 26, 2011 | #
Hi Margie, I know JetPens, they awesome, I got a lot of stuff from them over years. Couple of times I was featured on their blog and won couple of certificates. I bought my Palominos (Bob was the one who introduced me to Palomino) on pencils.com. They overshadowed even the Perfect Pencil, by Faber Castell. (May be if I would have Graf von Faber-Castell Perfect Pencil for $400….) Original Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602 also awesome, a bit harder than Palomino Blackwing 602.
Margie 3:36 pm on December 26, 2011 | #
I’ll have to try the Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602… and pencils.com Thank you!
andrew 7:20 pm on December 29, 2011 | #
Nice