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Some sketches with Mitsubishi Hi-Uni 8B and 6B pencils.
This is supposed to be a fancier pencil than the 4B used in the previous sketches. At least on this paper, these softer leads don’t glide with the same buttery smoothness. Also, I can’t tell any difference between the 6B and the 8B.
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I cannot stop loving this pencil–a Mitsubishi Uni 4B that’s been in the drawer for who knows how long since the last time I tried it. Some erasers can handle it well (though I used an inadequate eraser on one of the Felixes below).
I have a couple of dozen other interesting pencils I should try out too. I’m sure I drew test sketches with some of these pencils way back in the distant past.
Today is practice quick-sketching hand poses, and some test lettering for…some other project 🙂
That’s a tattoo I don’t actually have.
This pencil is so smooth and dark, I might try drawing a whole comic with it (no inking), see how it goes. It’s probably very hard to erase–I haven’t tested this pencil recently.
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A random Egyptian night, some years ago…
There’s evidence from the wear and scuffing on mummies (of ordinary Graeco-Roman-Egyptian folks) that they were kept upright in or near the home, or else were brought out and set up for special occasions, until eventually being buried, maybe after a generation or two.
Q&A from LJ:
esmerelda_ogg: Are those Felix’s little brothers or sisters next to Father? (We’re lucky. We can forget how many children didn’t grow up back then.)
It’s only mentioned in passing here and there, but Felix had an older brother who died young (Rufus) and a younger brother (name not mentioned) who died of the same illness as his parents. And, given the child and infant mortality rates, there are likely to have been more siblings.
Making Felix technically the middle child but raised as the older brother. That also isn’t mentioned specifically, but I had it in mind when Domitian tries to be all simpatico with Felix about both of them being oppressed younger brothers.
I found this while sorting used/unused/couple-of-pages-scribbled-in sketchbooks.
There are a lot of couple-of-pages sketchbooks lying around here.
It’s in a Fabriano Classic Artist’s Journal and is, not surprisingly, drawn at itty bitty size.
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