/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2143453
In this context it's not about the art I can make as I know I suck, rather the marks the tool can make. A $10 mechanical pencil (with an additional $5-$6 for 90 lead refills) is simply a better deal for a beginning artist than a $5 felt tip pen that gets exhausted in 100 pages or so and I learned that the hard way. Peter Han basically demands his students use them in this video (this video that I really should have included in the image because manual dexterity is probably one of the first things any sincere aspiring artist should strive for) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgDNDOKnArk.. I'm not saying the pens are bad at all or that Peter Han is conspiring with Staedtler to make his students spend a marginally larger sum of money on art supplies, lol, but I am saying that an artist that won't make anything worth preserving for a while may as well milk his materials as best he can and hold the primpy stuff like leather-bound sketchbooks and so on at least until he can draw a convincing and proportional looking Loomis blook from FWAP without shitting himself.

Here are some not-great ellipses and oblong circles made with a .7mm bic mech pencil that feels like it could fall apart in my hand at any moment because you asked though. It is as capable of making a perfect circle or a straight line as any pen and something maybe slightly more robust would be a better deal for a novice in the end.