Hello friend! I’m Kat, and I like to make stuff! Sometimes we’ll draw together, sometimes we’ll paint, sometimes we’ll sculpt or sew or build or even cook! Whatever it is we’re in for, we’re in it together, and that’s the most important part. ❤️
Nice, I just pulled out everything from the back end of my Faber, tried to sharpen for decades - nothing. Then I hear you say, it doesn't have a sharpener... meh
Thank goodness, you are the first person (and I watched several videos on this!) who was helpful! I absolutely hate my blocks, when I bought them I didn't realise that it would be so hard to remove the sheets of paper! I damaged several using a blade. After watching your video I used a small ruler and it worked! Thank you so much!
Oh man, I was looking for a water brush that'd fit in a little 3.5" tin with a few half pans, and this one looks like it'd be near-perfect. Only thing is, there'd be no room for the bottle to fit in alongside. Do you think it's flat enough to fit _on top_ of the pans, inside the tin you showed at the start?
The online store , Wet Paint (or Painters?), sells this lityle tin. They are by Richeson. And, the Watercolor Essentials by Daniel Smith set has a perfect set of the primaries in both warm and cools versions, leaving you with two more colors of your choice to add if you use an eight well tiny palette. So glay you are having fun! Love your paintings and the tension pocket. Have fun
Hellos. Jose from Puerto Rico. Yeap... I like these lead holders and I've got a couple of them. Even the stubby Koh-I-Noor Versatil 5311. I recently got a GraphGear 1000 mechanical pencil set and 0.5 mm 4B leads. I love to draw and I can't get enough of these things. Oh.. and I also got some over-engineered Japanese sharpeners. So I guess you're not alone.🤣
Thank you so very much. I was starting to get aggravated because I didn’t want to damage my first watercolor block .And this is the first time trying hot pressed paper.Thanks again
Thanks for this. Funilly enough I am not looking for one to draw with, technically. I am in my 40's and studying mathematics. I prefer pencil over pen when I am working and I have been trying to use a mechanical pencil and it just snaps so much.
Oh my gosh I have that exact same orange clutch pencil, I love it so much so I've held onto it for years; but I couldn't remember what brand it was because the writing on the side wore off. I forgot I used to have one of those spinny sharpeners too
This is amazing! I’ve not thought of a better way to keep my swatches with my palettes AND to keep them neat and unmarred to boot. Thank you. I’m going to grab my packing tape now!
I'm not an artist in the traditional sense. I've been working on making my own sewing patterns. I need a thick led pencil that I can erase. So I went on Amazon looking for pencils. I bought some of those preschool jumbo pencils. They are good, but I thought about mechanical pencils. I found a cheap set and so far I like them. Maybe I'll drop a few dollars more and get a quality clutch pencil. I didn't even know they had a name. I feel like my whole life of 55 years I missed out on decent mechanical pencils. The 0.7 don't work well for me. I usually press hard and break the led. I have a sketch book to figure out my sewing ideas. I just wish I could draw better.
I collect clutch pencils and my favorites are the 5.6mm leads in the e+m pencils, Kaweco, and Worther brands. These companies have colored, highlighter, and metallic leads for this size too. I love thick leads that don't break easily, 1.0mm and over, and I prefer the softer leads, 2b and higher.
I'm 15 and its took about 9 months for me to get diagnosed with idiopathic hypersomnia. It sucks having this because my brain just kind of.... Shuts down completely, but my body would be awake. Its like the two were fighting, and my body can fight back for a little, but eventually i just pass out. This is the first video ive seen thats actually described what ive been going through fully, and i thank you for that. One of the meds that i've been on has worked, however i lost 8 pounds in a week, so im off that medicine now 😅. But thank you for making this, i feel heard finally.
Thank you for your fab swatching. To be clear, Miyazaki may have used this palette for sketching, but the actual anime frames were painted with poster paints ( eg Nicker) before digitizing the image. Poster paints have all the attributes that are needed as you mentioned, are more like gouache but much more fluid and not so portable and suffer from poor lightfastness.
People don’t listen, or at least not till it’s too late and the help you needed before isn’t enough anymore, and the help you need now is too much. This is wonderful… but humans aren’t.
I knew about the spinny sharpeners and clutch pencils, but did not know some of them have booty sharpeners. I like the idea of them, I like the way they feel in my hand, and they make sense, but I'm afraid I'm too attached to the lacquer-coated graphite sticks to abandon them for clutches. I'd have to get a bunch of them for each hard/softness of lead. Doable, but I probably won't. Maybe.
Btw, I found out June Gold has a lot of 2mm lead in a lot of colors and hardness. I love their 0.5mm leads, so i would redirect their 2mm to be good as well
Didn't know about these until I got a huge one in the jazza sketch pack. Now I find out they come in other sizes and colors? And booty sharpeners?! I have to try these. Don't know if they'll ever replace my pentel 0.5 mechanical, but they aren't always the right tool. Thanks
This video may have been taken 4 years ago, and you are probably not going to see this comment but, I just got my first clutch pencil with a lead pointer, (I’ll skip to the point) YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON ONLINE TO EXPLAIN THIS BETTER THAN THE STÆDTLER BRAND THEMSELVES!!!!!!!!!! ✏✒🖋🖊🖌🖍📝 (Your grading on this video: 📈)
I’ve just started getting back into manual draughting (drafting) and revived one of my fathers clutch pencils from his days as a draughtsman working on some very special projects for British Rail. I’m sat here watching your excellent video with my cat too who approves as much as yours does!
I just got one of these (a Staedtler one) and I'm mostly happy with it so far. I just need to figure out the sharpening, and then I will be golden. : ) Thank you for this helpful video. I didn't know there were so many different related things you could get, like colored lead. Sounds interesting.
