My pencils draw worlds

An ode to an ink-pen: Mitsubishi uni Pin

November 21, 2018 by readydot

This might be a bit disappointing to people visiting this site in hopes of reading a new post about pencils. But for my first post in a long time I decided to write about the thing I use the most when drawing: my ink-pens. I have tried a lot of them and I will try to write about those in future articles, but I have been hooked on to the quality of the Mitsubishi “uni Pin”. So what makes these […]

Categories: Review • Tags: ink, Mitsubishi, pen, pin, review, test, uni

Renaissance…

November 2, 2018 by readydot

… is my favorite art-history period, but also what I plan for this site. There’ll be a lot of changes as I plan to put up a shop for my art on here. This place will see one or the other review and a few surprises. Stay tuned for 2019!

Categories: Uncategorized

Review: Pentel Multi 8’s

June 2, 2016 by readydot

During the time I was scanning the internets for interesting bits of stationery (still do it but not as extensive as last year), I remembered that somebody offered me a LAMY “tri pen” a long time ago and I almost forgot I had it. So I went looking for it in my storage (I’m really organised, but the chaotic type..) and was pretty happy to find it still as I remembered it although I remembered also that I’d like to have a multi-pen […]

Categories: Geekery, Review • Tags: function, holder, lead, mechanical, multi, pen, Pencil, Pentel, super

Review: Caran D’Ache Swiss Wood HB

May 23, 2016 by readydot

It was kind of difficult to find a store that had the Swiss Wood, when you try to find it in a physical shop that is. I found it in a really nice little shop in Cologne called Papier Pop-Up. Maybe I didn’t look hard enough in the past, but they had the Black Wood on display so I asked if they were also carrying the Swiss Wood. The pencil is really a beautiful one. A bit larger than average, with […]

Categories: Review • Tags: caran d'ache, Pencil, review, shop, swiss wood

I’ve been busy, but not here.

January 10, 2016 by readydot

A late Happy New Year to y’all!! I see that I still get a lot of traffic, like at least 500 visits a month. I thought I’d let this blog a bit to its own to see if people are still interested in pencils. And it shows that eventhough I was silent on here for quite some time, there’s still a lot of folks out there reading into pencils and what comes with it. My main focus was on my […]

Categories: Blog News

News: Jetpens’ Guide to Wooden Pencils

April 1, 2015 by readydot

Jetpens’ Guide to Wooden Pencils Check out this very thourough guide from the guys over at jetpens.

Categories: Blog News • Tags: jetpens, news, Pencils

Gearporn: 7 Janus

March 21, 2015 by readydot

Behold a sight of beauty. 7 Faber Janus in one shot! World-premier?

Categories: Gearporn • Tags: bleistiftspitzer, faber, Janus, seven, sharpener

Pencil Buyers Beginner’s “guide” (Part 3: Update)

March 18, 2015 by readydot

Following my recent posts about where to buy pencils some readers have suggested other places on the net for the pencil buying customer. So to make this series complete I’ll post these suggestions here. These are not “tested” by me, but I trust my geeky readership! Pedro suggested Pencils.com in the States. Now this is a brilliant suggestion, because that site is not only very dedicated in all things “pencils”, but also sports very interesting infos about pencils and they have an […]

Categories: Misc • Tags: buy, fredaldous, hobbycraft, Pencil, pencil.com, Pencils, pencils4artists, shop, whsmith

Pencil Buyers Beginners “guide” (Part 2: Europe)

March 16, 2015 by readydot

Continuing the series I’ll give you here some links to European online pencil shops. http://www.cultpens.com/ Well if you haven’t heard of Cultpens, you never shopped for pencils or pens on the internet. Cultpens has a enormous selection of everything that writes, sketches and draws. The selection is so huge that they offer thematic guides by color, themes or target group. The packages are always very well packaged. Their new sections called “Geek Picks” and “Rarities” are especially recommended! Highly recommended. […]

Categories: Misc • Tags: cultpens, journalshop, Palomino, pedlars, Pencil, Pencils, shop

Pencil buyers beginners “guide” (part 1: USA)

March 13, 2015 by readydot

I recently got a nice haul from cwpencils.com (view previous post). As it is rather difficult to come by most of the American brands here in Europe. I often buy pencils in the States. The cool thing about pencils and notebooks is that they don’t generate extra import taxes, so you just pay the pencils and the postage. If you buy more pencils in a go you logically pay less postage per pencil, so make sure to make it worthwhile. […]

Categories: Misc • Tags: American Pencil, bob truby, branded name, caroline weaver, enterprise, erasable podcast facebook community, guide, jetpens, new, notegeist, old, online, penci, Pencils, shop, vintage

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