[Pen/Pencil Blog] Wooden Pencil Parade
I obviously didn’t get a blog done yesterday. This year…wow, this year. I’m exhausted. I ended up working the Day Job last evening and just didn’t have it in me to make this happen.
All of these are from Graphite Pencil + Paper – from two subscription boxes and our first trip out and about once pandemic reopening started. These are all higher end wooden pencils – still figuring out the Perpetuas. The others are great. A couple feel like 2B – and not just HBs. I love the softer, darker leads, so these make me happy. They’re more like drawing pencils than school pencils.
The ones on the right edge – the fluorescent and the white – are highlighter pencils and a chalk pencil for the black paper stuff. The fluorescent highlighter pencils work well on thinner paper or whenever you don’t want regular hightlighers bleeding through whatever you’re marking up.
There’s something weirdly visceral sometimes about wooden pencils. They’re warm. They’re basic. AND — there’s a weird sense of accomplishment when you use one up. Pencils are amazing. Check them out.