Editing The Pen Addict 17/transcript (section)

== Faber-Castell Pencil ==


'''Mike Rohde:''' Yeah, it does. It seems to, and as far as pencils go, I can mention that there is a favorite pencil that I use. It's the Faber-Castell E-Motion, which I think they produce pens as well, and I haven't explored that, but it's got that funky, tear-shaped barrel. Yeah. It's sort of thick in the middle and thin on the ends. It's really comfortable, and I use, it's got a really thick, the leads in there are like 1.4 millimeters, so they're really thick. And I typically get an H quality, so they're very slippery and really, you know, they kind of loosen you up. But again, there's that point of the tool at changing how you work, you know, using a pencil. It gives a whole different feel and makes me think differently than when I use a pen. So, but that's been a great pencil. I've used that for many years and recommend it to a lot of people. And I should probably explore their pen line and see if there's anything they have that's, you know, can use a drop of gel insert into.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, really. I haven't used any of their pens, I don't think. But I was actually going to ask you about that pencil because I've noticed you're doing a lot of the process posts for your sketchnote handbook that's coming out soon in pencil. So I want to talk about that. But first, let's do our second sponsor real quick because I really want to get into the sketchnote handbook thing. So what's our second sponsor today, Myke?

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Awesome. Awesome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Let's see if we are. Where are we going to now, Brad?