[HN Gopher] A Case for Pencils: Interview with Cartoonist Tom Gauld
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A Case for Pencils: Interview with Cartoonist Tom Gauld
Author : sohkamyung
Score : 30 points
Date : 2021-12-23 05:51 UTC (3 days ago)
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| doe88 wrote:
| What's funny is that several of his New Yorker covers are -
| amazingly - more than _simple_ drawings.
| throwawayboise wrote:
| I like pencils -- real wooden ones that you need to sharpen. I
| have a small collection of them in various hardnesses, mostly for
| note-taking and working out ideas. I'm not an artist; I don't
| sketch with them, excluding simple flowchart-type diagrams.
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| They always work, the lines don't fade or bleed, they can write
| in any position, when you use them up the stub is biodegradable,
| not a plastic shell that will sit in a landfill for 200 years.
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| I think pencils for everyday writing and refillable/fountain pens
| for stuff that really needs to be indelible are the best
| combination.
| Daub wrote:
| > Tool I wish existed: A paintbrush with an undo setting.
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| Amen brother.
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| As regards the role of pencils in the creative process, the
| author seems to primitise it's role as a tool for development,
| less so for authorship. I can concur. Working things out seems so
| much easier in pencil than in digital anything. For me, this is a
| tactile thing... graphite is after all, a lubricant, and paper is
| pretty much a skin.
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| Anything past the development (sketching) stage is pretty much
| post-Morten. For the last 100 years, finalization has required
| mediums which reproduce effectively using photo-reproduction:
| pen, ink and suchlike.
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