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I used to do a LOT of sketching in ball point pen. The inks of recent ballpoints isn't as good for it, as the stuff from the 60's, though the 90's. I must have found a suitable pen, back in 2007, so I drew this picture of Asheru. More of a finished value studyI like how this sketch turned out. Ballpoint Pen on Cardstock. R U G G E L S / 2 0 0 7.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Portraits
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There was an old brand my Dad had boxes of from work called, Black Feet Indian Pencil”. They had a simple plastic tube body and a hemispheric cap on the back, and a long brass tip. Those were the best but I haven’t seen those since the early 70’s those were the best for sketching.
sounds a bit like some cheap "giveaway" ball pens you can find in germany. I guess they werent six-edghed like the BIC?
in 2008 I had to lay low in hospital (managed to smash a big toe through laziness and stupidity, and then it got infected, too) I asked my brother to bring me a block of my papers and a good, reliable ball pen. when TV was too dumb, and reading became a bit too much, I'd scribble some furry persons on the side. I kept it SFW, and everybody liked the results. :) I don't remember the brand anymore, though.
in 2008 I had to lay low in hospital (managed to smash a big toe through laziness and stupidity, and then it got infected, too) I asked my brother to bring me a block of my papers and a good, reliable ball pen. when TV was too dumb, and reading became a bit too much, I'd scribble some furry persons on the side. I kept it SFW, and everybody liked the results. :) I don't remember the brand anymore, though.
I like the over-her-shoulder glance, and of course svelte Lupine loins add to the interest. Lupus, by the way, isn't really a Latin word; the Romans borrowed it from their Sabine predecessors.
Ballpoint pens! I've had a love-hate relationship with them for well over fifty years. I grew up with BIC pens (as did most Americans) but always found they became unreliable at critical moments. My nights were haunted by memories of blobs of ink that would never dry, streaking and smearing treacherously... (* ahem *) Papermate and its better-quality competitors ate up my allowance. Then came the Asian pens: Pilot and its ilk. One major problem exists with Asian ballpoint pens: until recently, Americans and other folks writing in European-based languages tend to write in cursive longhand. Asians generally use short, single characters, and while the Japanese Kanji contains perhaps thousands of logographic characters, they are still built of many brief strokes.
Instead of a long, swooping line, Asian pens are made for making very short, repetitive marks, as each character is built of many minuscule strokes. This suits me fine, as I usually write in a modified print hand of all capital letters, with upper and lower case distinguished by size. People used to writing in cursive will be frustrated because the new, imported pens don't support the long, continuous lines they are used to. They skip if you try to pull a line of more than 3/4 of an inch with them.
So, it sounds like you found an American or European pen, ten years or so ago.
Ballpoint pens! I've had a love-hate relationship with them for well over fifty years. I grew up with BIC pens (as did most Americans) but always found they became unreliable at critical moments. My nights were haunted by memories of blobs of ink that would never dry, streaking and smearing treacherously... (* ahem *) Papermate and its better-quality competitors ate up my allowance. Then came the Asian pens: Pilot and its ilk. One major problem exists with Asian ballpoint pens: until recently, Americans and other folks writing in European-based languages tend to write in cursive longhand. Asians generally use short, single characters, and while the Japanese Kanji contains perhaps thousands of logographic characters, they are still built of many brief strokes.
Instead of a long, swooping line, Asian pens are made for making very short, repetitive marks, as each character is built of many minuscule strokes. This suits me fine, as I usually write in a modified print hand of all capital letters, with upper and lower case distinguished by size. People used to writing in cursive will be frustrated because the new, imported pens don't support the long, continuous lines they are used to. They skip if you try to pull a line of more than 3/4 of an inch with them.
So, it sounds like you found an American or European pen, ten years or so ago.
that would explain things, as nowadays everything is made in china, and we have to take what they produce after killing off our own producing businesses.
(Steiff used to produce their plushies in china for a while, at the cost of quality and design, but for the same stiff pricetag. there is a witness of a bus full of chinese tourists going into the company shop, returning with arms full of plushies, and driving off. only to return a wee bit later and returning every item they bought. "We can buy that shit at home, for a fraction of the price tag! This isn't what we came here for!" Steiff since then has rethought their ways and is again producing in germany.)
(Steiff used to produce their plushies in china for a while, at the cost of quality and design, but for the same stiff pricetag. there is a witness of a bus full of chinese tourists going into the company shop, returning with arms full of plushies, and driving off. only to return a wee bit later and returning every item they bought. "We can buy that shit at home, for a fraction of the price tag! This isn't what we came here for!" Steiff since then has rethought their ways and is again producing in germany.)
some Steiff plushies are near-indestructable. :P
here in germany we have a bank that specializes on long-term loans for house-building purpioses, and their mascot is a fox-with-glasses. feral in the beginning, humanoid later. they also had giveaway plushies for the kids when parents signed a contract above a certain sum.
the firsat ones were feral, and filled with straw. supposedly made by Steiff, they had glasses made of black plastic foil.
one day I found two of them on a flea market for cheap, and later gave one to Mayfurr, when he made it to a little german furry con. since then the little plush accompanies him on travels. :)
here in germany we have a bank that specializes on long-term loans for house-building purpioses, and their mascot is a fox-with-glasses. feral in the beginning, humanoid later. they also had giveaway plushies for the kids when parents signed a contract above a certain sum.
the firsat ones were feral, and filled with straw. supposedly made by Steiff, they had glasses made of black plastic foil.
one day I found two of them on a flea market for cheap, and later gave one to Mayfurr, when he made it to a little german furry con. since then the little plush accompanies him on travels. :)
Oh, how familiar am I with the "Knopf im Ohr" plushies! My Mom received one as a Christmas present from a relative in 1929. It disappeared in the process of moving house a few years later and she never found it. When we were in our teens, she started collecting teddy bears. My sister and I bought a couple of Steiff bears for her, I think they wound up with my niece after Mom passed away.
There still are American made pens ( and occasionally South American made pens) available, but you need to go to office supply stores and know your brands. The DOD had their own pen contractor who made a great pen, butI think after Reagan was out of office, the military just bought off the shelf pens. But yes different pens for different jobs. I use a fountain pen for writing ( cheap, and Asian made but performs well) but for sketching these days, it’s a 2mm lead holder with soft HB leads, or any variety of .05, or .07mm mechanical pencils. Inking tools are a wide open subject on their own.
SKILCRAFT pens! I still have few from when I was a DoD contractor 1987-'90. I grabbed a pen out of my nightstand the other morning and started writing, then realized it was almost 30 years old.
My dad turned me on to mechanical pencils when I was in high school. I still keep a 0.5mm or 0.7mm around at all times, even though I don't write on paper much any more. I'm looking at the Sanford Logo 0.5 on my desk. It's laid out a carpentry project in the past week, but sitting and making notes, I usually to that on the computer (or my phone).
My dad turned me on to mechanical pencils when I was in high school. I still keep a 0.5mm or 0.7mm around at all times, even though I don't write on paper much any more. I'm looking at the Sanford Logo 0.5 on my desk. It's laid out a carpentry project in the past week, but sitting and making notes, I usually to that on the computer (or my phone).
ABILITY One is a sheltered workshop. A lot of the gummint office equipment came from one or another -- Lighthouse for the Blind come to mind. The office furniture was once made in Federal prisons, too.
I would suggest prudence buying the pens, of course. Whatsoever is as good today as we remember from the past?
I would suggest prudence buying the pens, of course. Whatsoever is as good today as we remember from the past?
I have to use Ezekiel bread, because of the Dire Beat Mes. It has a low Glycemic Index (GI) and takes a long time to metabolize, so my glucose levels stay more even. It's expensive, but it toasts really, really well (the English muffins are pure Heaven) and if grilling it with Muenster cheese is an indication of the afterlife, I'm okay with this mortality thing.
Well the recent medical issues have slowed me down. I am drawing Lupines but not so much Asheru herself. Part of it is working on Lupine art for an RPG book I am working on, and she is not in it. Part of it is because I can’t seem to resolve her story satisfactorily, so a lot of the motivation has seeped away. I willndra h rnagain, Injustncant way when.
Thank you! Growing up with dogs, and once been around wolves, I draw on that experience. They have their own language of expression different from humans, so I use that. The body poses are human though. Dogs have subtle expressions. Wolves are much more direct in making their feelings known. People. A lot of artist don’t see that. Mixing canine expression with human body posing makes the characters not quite human but still comprehensible
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