/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

with a knife for life drawing and just with a regular pencil sharpener for animation.
I've been doing clean up with mechanical pencils at the moment because otherwise it's too hard for me to get a consistent line weight

The guy in your pic sounds mad, OP.

For sketching, I'll just sharpen my pencil with a regular pencil sharpener. Full pleibean, haven't been arrested by the Loomis police yet.

When I'm doing something more serious, I have a different set of pencils, sharpened with a razor. It may just be me being superstitious about muh pencils though.

This guy is fucking crazy

Since he is a cartoonist I feel like this is all just one big art project to show us how some people can obsess over small simple processes like sharpening your pencil and how some people will pay someone more money expecting he will deliver better quality even if it's not possible. Like paying premium for gold plated hdmi cables that don't have an advantage over cheap cables.

>>1560071
>paying someone to sharpen pencils
>fucking $15 a pencil
ಠ_ಠ
>Cutting into the shaft of a pencil and removing it's point can be an emotionally wrenching experience.
Ok this guy's a full blown wack-o-loon.
>mad about mech pencils
>returning the shavings because they're "part of the pencil"
>talking shit about people getting mad about it when he was just getting mad about mech pencils
lol. The autism is strong in this one.

>>1560201

I think he's just pretending

Or at least I hope all of this is a giant troll

>>1560201
He's tricking retards into paying stupid amounts of money for a sharpened pencil.

You also notice how he bought/rented an ENTIRE abandoned factory to do something you could do at your kitchen table?

>>1560184
this guy gets it

>>1560184
Dude gold plated HDMI cables aren't expensive and it differentiates the categories of cable which have different speeds. For certain monitors (like mine for example) you need a higher speed gold one or you won't see anything.

I wonder what the green crank sharpener was, if a self proclaimed artisan pencil sharpener used it it had to be pretty good

>>1560071
its just vice trolling people

>>1560323
http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rees_(cartoonist)#Artisanal_Pencil_Sharpening_service

>>1560333
my god

>>1560335

>If you think it's a joke, why don't you poke yourself with your newly sharpened pencil? Or better yet, don't -- because it'll really hurt. In fact, every pencil David Rees sharpens is shipped with a signed and dated certificate authenticating that it is now a dangerous object.

i like this guys personality, i would buy a sharpened pencil from him.

>>1560071
I am freaking out, man.

i don't get why you guys are so amazed by this...

i mean, this is /ic/, we work with pencil, a lot. you should know that sharpening them is a big fucking deal
i mean, yeah, it's still kinda amazing that this guy is taking it to a whole new level, but you guys are being edgy cunts with all your
>lol he is just sharpening pencils omg..... i mean dude just use a fucking pencil sharpener!! LMAO XD

i remember my teacher saying how much of a piece of shit pencil sharpener were and that the only correct choice was to use some sort of blade (like the one the guy uses at the beginning. i didn't know such refined pencil sharpener existed, though (that big one he also uses), i wonder if they are any good.

>>1560333

>>1560375
>i don't get why you guys are so amazed by this...
>i mean, yeah, it's still kinda amazing
...
>you guys are being edgy cunts
That word doesn't mean what you think it means.

>>1560375
>you guys are being edgy cunts

If you're going to use a buzzword try and at least use it in the correct context. The word edgy isn't a sentence enhancer to throw around when contrary opinions are voiced.

>>1560377
yeah, maybe out of context
but what i meant is that you would expect the people that visit /ic/ to agree with the guy on op's,video about sharpening pencil to be an important deal to the artist or at least that you get pleasure from sharpening pencils, but instead they are trying to be le epic edgy cunts who are shiting on it.

>>1560380
Sharpening pencils is important.

Paying $15 to a pretentious weirdo to sharpen them when you could easily do it yourself is stupid.
>edgy
Nope. Still doesn't mean what you think it means.

I actually can't sharpen a pencil to save my life. I much prefer the hassle of dip pens or fountain pens when it comes to traditional.

But it's nice to see a VICE video that isn't about drugs or wierd asian food.

>>1560383
what does it mean then
isn't it trying to be different/cutting edge to seem cool? because this is what i think most of you are doing by shiting on this.

maybe it's stupid to pay him... i don't know, i may be biased since i have a thing for these kind of things (lel).

>>1560396

I think you're missing that his whole business and his mannerisms during the video suggest he's taking a giant piss

>>1560396
>isn't it trying to be different/cutting edge to seem cool?
No. Edgy faggots are people who are trying to be offensive and dark because they think it's cool.
>because this is what i think most of you are doing by shiting on this.
It's not. We're shitting on him because he's a pretentious weirdo.
>maybe it's stupid to pay him
It is

>>1560184
He was a shit cartoonist though.

Did...did you all even watch the video? It's so obvious he's bullshitting they might have well just put a giant banner over his head saying "THIS IS A JOKE".

He wears a stately white collared shirt and black apron to sharpen pencils.

He reads a pretentious passage about the emotionally wrenching experience of sharpening pencils while standing in front of a wall covered in dick graffiti.

He goes to an abandoned factory for no discernible reason and waxes philosophical about how we're all going to die fighting each other in an apocalyptic wasteland.

He talks about how he started the pencil-sharpening business as his marriage was ending and how he latched on to it as he was "adrift" professionally and personally.

He says that his clients don't actually use the pencils he sharpens, but keep them as "inspirational talismans".

He explicitly states that he's into making fake advertisements and promotions.

And let us not forget, he charges fifteen fucking dollars to sharpen a pencil.

If you actually believe that he's serious with this then I don't know what to tell you. Congratulations that you've managed to get this far having no critical thinking skills?

>>1560451
B-But the Wikipedia article

>>1560451
Poe's Law, in real life

Also, sad to say, I would not be surprised if it were completely serious.

>>1560379
But that's exactly what it is, that's the way 4chan has been using this buzzword ever since it's inception.

>>1560234

The best part is that you believed the guy at Best Buy who told you this.

>>1560534

>Higher Speed....

>Electricity

>HIGHER SPEED

>C

>SPEED OF LIGHT

Depends. For my 2B ,HB and F/H pencils that i snag for cheap, I use this little electric sharpener my sister got me a couple years ago. Gets them to a nice, sharp point without snapping them.

I do use a blade for my Pilot Croquis (mostly because its just a thick piece of hard graphite that wont fit in sharpener) and some $15 branded hand sharpener for my soft graphites.

>>1560721
Sorry not H, 6H. Shit's super light, great for just sketching things down.

>>1560234
I'm gonna link your post on /g/.

>>1560534
>>1560550
Man I hope you guys are just having a giggle.

Just in case you are actually retarded;
>Category 1-certified cables, which have been tested at 74.5 MHz (which would include resolutions such as 720p60 and 1080i60), and Category 2-certified cables, which have been tested at 340 MHz (which would include resolutions such as 1080p60 and 2160p30).[111][119][120] Category 1 HDMI cables are marketed as "Standard" and Category 2 HDMI cables as "High Speed".

>>1560234
Oh man, they fucking got you good you fucker. You do realize a digital connection is either:

A. Yes
or
B. No

The gold-plated shit is a scam carry over from the analog days when it mattered.

Next time don't be a tard and buy a $2 cable from monoprice.

>>1560977
Well it's not like the gold plating has 0 advantages. It doesn't tarnish, so there's always a good connection. But neither does the regular zinc(?) coating, and it's all copper underneath, and the less-than-a-hair's-width plating isn't going to have a huge effect on speed.

>>1560743

Hertz is a frequency not "speed" it measures the frequency of cycles in an electrical signal.

You bought a gold plated cable because some snake oil salesman told you your TV wouldn't work without it, that's on you dumbass. I bet you also own a Mac.

>>1561858
It's a measure of how fast something happens, speed is a perfectly fine word to use. It would be different if it was "High Velocity".

Did you not actually read that line I quoted? Here's another that should spell it out for you
>Many HDMI cables under 5 meters of length that were made before the HDMI 1.3 specification can work as Category 2 cables, but only Category 2-tested cables are guaranteed to work for Category 2 purposes

And like I said already high speed cables are not expensive. They cost the same as just about any other kind of computer cable. You're a paranoid retard who doesn't know anything about electronics.

>>1562166
You're an illiterate idiot who still hasn't realized we aren't talking about category but about gold plating.

>>1562175
But the plating doesn't make the cables expensive, like I said it differentiates the types.

>>1562181
Yes. But people PUSH the plating as making a big difference and tack on huge price tags.

How are you not getting this?

>>1562182
Yeah my mistake that's what he originally meant, but some people seem to believe there's actually no difference with the gold category 2 cables.

It's just as dumb as people who buy the marked up ones.

>>1560234

Aaaah yes, someone gets it, good go- i mean guy.

>>1562184

Jesus christ i bet you actually use a plebian gold plated cable instead of this baby.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/audioquest-diamond-6-6-high-speed-hdmi-cable-dark-gray-blue/2383319.p?id=1218325919542&skuId=2383319

>>1560071
This guy is awesome. I've thought about mailing him one of my Faber-Castell jumbo HB pencils to sharpen.

>>1562236
Those reviews are hilarious.

Folding knife to roughly shape and sharpen (typically at a much gentler angle than most pencil sharpeners, so that more graphite core is exposed), then briefly smooth out the graphite tip on a piece of paper.