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Hi everyone!
I’m Smitha from the blog Smiling Colors and today I am talking about one of my all
time favorite supplies- pencils.
As a design team member for Tombow USA I just got my hands on their new Mono Drawing Pencils
set and I am going to do a quick review of it in this video and also share a time-lapse
of me lettering some words.
Now a tiny history about me- My all time favorite tool to draw with has always been pencils.These
are few of my much much older pencil sketches- I used to love to do portraits of Bollywood
Stars, Ganesha’s and for some reason Tigers.
You will find pencils all around my house - because I love to write my to do lists,
my rough sketches and even all of my planning with pencils.
Okay I digress, lets get back to the new Mono Drawing Pencils that this video is aobut.
These pencils aren't new, they have been there for a while, but everything is packaged together
newly now with a nice sharpener and a brand new Light eraser.
There is a small pamphlet included with details of the product and some tips for achieving
great shading with these pencils.
There is a lot more information about this set on the Tombow website and I will leave
a link to it as well below so that you can read up more and see whether this set is something
you would find useful.
The set comes with 12 pencils.
The pencils come unsharpened, I went and sharpened them before shooting this video.
The pencils come in all shades from 6B to 4H.
The B’s are the darkest and H’s are the lightest.
There are a really high quality product and sharpen easily and nicely.
I love using the 4H pencil to start my sketch with always and then darkening as I go.
This eraser is really nice, I loved using it and it erases with the lightest of touches-
hence the name.
While I am talking about erasers, Tombow also just released a bunch of brand new styles
that are amazing.
I haven't even tried all of these yet, but am super excited about them.
Now I am going to dive into a quote I want to letter and use these pencils for it so
that you can see how the pencils are.
I am using my favorite sketchbook- this is by Pentallic and I love the size and the side
spiral binding.
I use this sketch book mainly for my ink illustrations and pencil sketches.
I start with the lightest pencil, the 4H one and am not pressing the pencil down too hard,
I just want a light guide for me to figure out how big I want each word to be and where
I want the words to sit.
The pencil marks look really faint in the video, but in real life you can see them a
bit more darker.
Once I like how everything looks, I actually go in with the light eraser and kinda erase
the whole thing, leaving just a really really light mark on the page.
I then use the HB pencil to darken everything and this time I am do press down my pencil
a bit.
For the final finishing touch I use the 5B pencil and add thicker downstrokes to some
letters and in general add more depth.
I love the B pencils- they are so smooth and the graphite in these pencils are of a really
good quality.
And this is how my final lettering looks and i like how it turned out.
I also did a quick sketch of some flowers.
This one I hadn't really planned out before hand, I just picked up my pencil and started
drawing because I love drawing flowers.
It needs a little more detailing but I think it turned out OK.
Ok so this was my quick review of the new Mono Drawing pencil set and I can’t wait
to draw more using these pencils.
If you would like to me share videos with pencil and color pencil shading tips leave
me a comment below and let me know what you would like to see more of.
Thank you for stopping by today.
If you enjoy coloring and drawing you might be interested in some of my previous videos
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Have a great day and happy crafting!