u/Crafterandchef1993

So my cheap dollar store mechanical pencils are starting to give up the ghost after 4 years, which for dollar store isn't bad. For replacements I've ordered a few from pentel Canada, my pentel mechanical pencils, the twist erase and energize are still going strong even though I got those around the same time for around the same price point. So I just got some of those two models. I use the uni nano dia coloured mechanical pencil leads for my sketches (highly recommend for sketching, they combine high pigmentation with blendability and erasability and are actually fairly opaque, in many cases working better than the standard grey), so I do require a minimum of 7 pencils. I do have one pilot Eno, since uni nano Dia doesn't have a yellow, but it's far waxier and less erasable and opaque. I was actually pleasantly surprised how affordable ordering from pentel Canada's website was. With shipping it was only $15 for 4 pencils. And the factory is actually in my province, so I probably won't have to wait too long. In the meantime I can make do with my orange, blue, green and purple leads that are in my pentel pencils that I currently have

Inktober "stinky", an angy baby skunk done in various ink pens

Wanted to try out one of those monochromatic blue ballpoint pen drawings I've seen. So I did this Cooper's Hawk. Turned out ok, though I still prefer having contrast colours in my art

A sleepy flying fox I did with ballpoint pens, a white coloured pencil, a white gel pen and a blending pencil, I'm very happy with how the texture of the wings went

Excited to get my new pencils

Took a few days to fully build up the tonal values of this ballpoint pen portrait of an otter, but I'm rather happy with how it turned out.

Would alcohol marker art be accepted for inktober?

My previous multi pens spring misaligned, so I got a new one, this one is way better. I spent several hours rendering this fox with it, a blending pencil and a white gel pen

A titmouse I did with ballpoint pens

Wanted to do something colourful. So I went on my colour selection app, got a limited palette, picked out the alcohol markers that closely matched that palette, then turned my lioness reference image grey. I like how it turned out.

Just finished this vampire bat with alcohol marker, a white coloured pencil and a ballpoint pen, he was so cute with his blep I had to draw him

Hedgehogs are not easy to draw accurately, but I got this one I did with alcohol markers, a fine tip acrylic pen and a ballpoint pen to a point I like it

Homemade Nori wrapped onigiri stuffed with crab salad

I'm conflicted about the ml in "I got pregnant with the tyrants child"

This alcohol marker portrait of a rose faced parrot took forever with blending all those little feathers on the crown, but I'm fairly happy with it.

I figured out what I didn't like out my drawing. The blending pink i used was too warm, which made it look flourescent. I went over the pink areas with a neutral cool pink marker I have and like it much better

Not sure if I like this purple finch I did with alcohol markers.

I messed up the evenness of the eyes a little , but otherwise I'm happy with how this red fox I did with alcohol markers and a ballpoint pen turned out.

It took a while but all my markers are swatched on my paper. Though I may make individual cards for each set. But for now, this will work

I had originally planned this puffin to be a digital art piece, but I didn't like how it was looking. So I decided to use my neocolour 2s, I'm very happy I went with that. This painting looks pretty much exactly how I wanted

A peregrine falcon I just finished using alcohol markers and a white coloured pencil. Definitely proves that my paper is bleedproof with the amount of layers of dark colours that went into it. I do like it