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Of course, the show already had an armadillo character ...named 'Armadillo'.\n\nSo I drew from what I saw (though this is not meant to be the same armadillo). ^^\n\nReturning to the source of inspiration, Armadillo is from 'Franklin and the Green Knight', AKA 'Snail Emerges From the Closet' (how progressive)!. XD\n\nAnyway, my KuruToga pencil is overdue to arrive, albeit I'm aware this corona crisis has everything slowed.\nAh-ha, but I have plenty of weird, vintage pencils to draw with yet. For this armadillo piece, I thought to use this 'Hospital' pencil by the Ruwe Pencil Company.\n\nI'm unsure what vintage this pencil is---my guess is 1960's. Either way, I like this one!\nThe drag is smooth, the lines are dark and (best of all) they erase easily.\n\nOf course, the Eberhard-Faber Blackwing has been the best I've tried so far, but this Ruwe pencil is in my top five---it's equal to (if not better than) the Quill T-812-2 (which was better than it had a right to be, considering it was a 'budget' pencil).\nIf I had any complaints about the Ruwe, it's that its lines are a bit dusty. Though defined as a 2, it's more a 2B (the lines are, again, dark, and the point is soft---I had to sharpen it once during this draw).\n\nOf course, I'm glad to end on a negative note, where these vintage pencils are concerned, for the simple fact that buying more would be difficult and costly (a box of these could cost $50 USD or more). :P\n\nAnyway...\n\nArmadillo! ","description_bbcode_parsed":"I decided to try drawing a 'Franklin style' armadillo. Of course, the show already had an armadillo character ...named 'Armadillo'.
So I drew from what I saw (though this is not meant to be the same armadillo). ^^
Returning to the source of inspiration, Armadillo is from 'Franklin and the Green Knight', AKA 'Snail Emerges From the Closet' (how progressive)!. XD
Anyway, my KuruToga pencil is overdue to arrive, albeit I'm aware this corona crisis has everything slowed.
Ah-ha, but I have plenty of weird, vintage pencils to draw with yet. For this armadillo piece, I thought to use this 'Hospital' pencil by the Ruwe Pencil Company.
I'm unsure what vintage this pencil is---my guess is 1960's. Either way, I like this one!
The drag is smooth, the lines are dark and (best of all) they erase easily.
Of course, the Eberhard-Faber Blackwing has been the best I've tried so far, but this Ruwe pencil is in my top five---it's equal to (if not better than) the Quill T-812-2 (which was better than it had a right to be, considering it was a 'budget' pencil).
If I had any complaints about the Ruwe, it's that its lines are a bit dusty. Though defined as a 2, it's more a 2B (the lines are, again, dark, and the point is soft---I had to sharpen it once during this draw).
Of course, I'm glad to end on a negative note, where these vintage pencils are concerned, for the simple fact that buying more would be difficult and costly (a box of these could cost $50 USD or more). :P
Anyway...
Armadillo! ","writing":"","writing_bbcode_parsed":"","pools_count":0,"title":"Armadillo","deleted":"f","public":"t","mimetype":"image/png","pagecount":"1","rating_id":"0","rating_name":"General","ratings":[],"submission_type_id":"1","type_name":"Picture/Pinup","guest_block":"f","friends_only":"f","comments_count":"0","views":"1","sales_description":null,"forsale":"f","digitalsales":"f","printsales":"f","digital_price":""}