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Finally Tombow Mono 100 Pencils

Well life has been pretty busy lately at work so the little time available has been spent doing something else other than sketching for distraction, you ever heard of that game… World of Warcraft? lol
Seriously, I have been trying to locate the Tombow Mono 100 pencils locally and as you read in the previous post, [...]

WonderCon 2009 and Kinokuniya San Francisco

( Art and Art Materials )

This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend WonderCon 2009 and after that I took a quick trip to the Kinokuniya Store in San Francisco, CA.
Saturday was practically a 12hr day for me, from getting up at 7am to getting back home at 7pm, and a lot of fun and discovery in between.
I purchased [...]

Cretacolor Pencils

I still have not had the chance to find the two brands of pencils mentioned in the previous post. Therefore I figure I should try other brands that the local art supply stores do carry, like the Cretacolor – Fine Art Graphite and the Cretacolor Monolith pencils.

These two have caught my attention a couple of [...]

Art Materials: A Discovery

( Art and Art Materials )

Greetings,
Ah those moments of discovery are priceless!
While reading  a post about pencil geekery in Enrico’s Blog (Founder of SketchCrawl), I became curious about the pencils he mentioned (both the Mitsubishi Hi-Uni and the Kuru Toga).
Initially I set to see if I could find the Kuro Toga (mechanical pencil) locally but no luck, not only that [...]