mechanical pencils

A clutch pencil with a drawing of sweet peas

The best drawing pencils – the clutch pencil!

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Clutch pencils are my favourite type of drawing pencils. For the longest time, I thought you essentially had two choices for graphite pencils: a typical wooden drawing pencil or a thin mechanical pencil. I’ve always liked using mechanical pencils because of the way they felt while drawing with them – they had a nice weight […]

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A lead pointer and two lead holder mechanical pencils

How to use a lead pointer pencil sharpener

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I have a variety of different pencils in my drawing kit, including some mechanical pencils. The tricky part of using a mechanical pencil is so many of them are low quality and the pencil lead will break. I picked up some clutch pencils with 2mm wide leads, which have become an indispensable part of my

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