#graphite/carbon pencil

[virtualmentalitydeer]

Pet Peeve

When people say that they need more pencil lead and not that they need more graphite

[jitteryjoedoodlez]

Portrait of Inay Deling

32x22 in

carbon and graphite pencils

[retroscifiart]

Art by Richard A. Kirk for a limited edition reissue of Dune by Earthling Publications, 2023 (graphite & carbon pencil and the wraparound cover in oils)

[feralforestgoblinn]

Reposting more old art from the old tumblr

18x24", graphite and carbon pencil

[palaeosinensis]

Chauvet-style cave art lions. I completely forgot I made this piece until I unearthed it digging for something else entirely. I actually deeply enjoy doing this kind of work but don't make much of it as A) it's a huge pain to store and B) it's heavy & challenging to ship. It'd be a dream to get to do these life-size; this one is roughly 11x14 I think. Will have to measure it. It's made by layering several kinds of materials together to make faux stone and then throwing everything but the kitchen sink at it. Watered down acrylics, airbrush, carbon pencil, graphite powder, gouache, conte...

[idkillbabynevillechamberlain]

My take on The Judge from Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian”. To make this, I used graphite and carbon pencils on paper, while I did the background digitally. I used photos of Marlon Brando in “Apocalypse Now” and Stellan Skarsgård for the facial features, as well as Clancy Brown in “Highlander”. I also used ai to create some reference photos by inputing descriptions from the book.

[idontknowreallywhy]

Resurface 17 - Redraw

Previous bits

Writing art is not my forte but Virg doesn’t have access to a piano right now so he insisted. I hereby blame any clumsy wording / inaccuracies on this being Scott’s POV so… yeah it’s the flyboy’s fault.

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It had been a little over 48 hours since Scott had last been in the same room as Virgil. While at one end of the feed a brother was happily chatting away to his invisible-to-everyone-else best friend, the unseen brother at the other huddled on the couch, curled protectively around his tablet lifeline and was politely rebuffing anyone who hovered with offers of irrelevancies like sustenance and reassurance. And company.

He felt bad about that. He had a nasty suspicion John was berating himself for revealing those details about the past and at some point very soon Scott was going to need to fix it. But it wasn’t now. The rest of them needed to concentrate on Virgil anyway.

Speaking of which…

Virgil had got fidgety and was stretching his arms behind his head in an achingly familiar way. Gordon, who was on duty again, was heavy-napping on one of the other beds and didn’t stir. The squid had taken the brunt of his brother’s care upon himself and he needed the sleep and so this was fine. Kayo and John were distracting Alan. Scott was keeping watch and could raise the alarm if the patient got out of bed. He didn’t though, merely shuffled his pillows around a while before appearing to notice the sketch pad and new set of pencils that had been left on his bedside table at his big brother’s insistence. Scott felt a little rush of justification as Virgil seized the pad and opened it to a fresh page, tapping his chin thoughtfully with the end of a pencil.

Scott watched as his brother began to sketch some light sweeping strokes across the page. The tension in Virgil’s expression melted away and Scott felt a little of himself beginning to thaw too.

After a few minutes, the artist laid the pad down beside him while he reached over to to select a different grade of pencil from the tin. Even upside down Scott recognised the sketch as the beginnings of one of Virgil’s many sky backgrounds - rays of sun peaking through soft clouds, the hint of a light wind mysteriously depicted through graphite on white. So many things could emerge next - a cityscape, a portrait, a whale leaping from the ocean… It could be an abstract of a solar eclipse or a detailed study of one of their ships. Perhaps a flock of birds over a silhouetted volcanic island. Whatever his eventual intention, Virgil so often began with the sky and everything else followed.

He picked the sketchbook up again and proceeded to add something smaller and more detailed. Scott entertained a hope that it might end up being Two and One flying home side by side - had three of those displayed in his suite - one watercolour, one acrylic, one mixed media collage and he was more than happy to add a pencil version too if Virgil allowed it. The eyebrows of intense concentration had been deployed and Scott had begun to smile at the familiarity of this when the merely concentrating look hardened into something else.

Virgil started to add much heavier lines, the knuckles of his right hand white as he held the book steady and the left almost a blur as he dug the pencil in hard and dragged it rapidly to and fro across the page. Scott wondered how the paper could possibly withstand such a ferocious onslaught of carbon - he half expected it to catch fire if his brother didn’t gouge a hole straight through it first.

Scott watched in helpless dismay as his the look of distress on his brother’s face deepened and was on the point of calling Gordon to wake him when Virgil seemed to run out of steam and slumped back into the pillows, sketchpad clutched to his chest. He closed his eyes and took a couple of breaths before propping himself up again and gazing at what he had drawn. He didn’t move at all for several minutes. Scott unconsciously leaned sideways as if he could change the angle of the security camera to see what it was then swore to himself. This was wrong. He should just be able to go and ask… he always asked and Virg always showed him… maybe somewhat shyly but he’d always show him. He didn’t dare defy Grandma, not when he was so clueless about all of this, but his gut told him she was wrong - Scott should be there by Virgil’s side.

This was wrong. She was wrong.

He had to try again.

He stood and started towards the stairs to go and reason with her when another movement from the screen caught his attention. Without removing his eyes from the sketch pad, Virgil leaned over to the bedside table and patted around until his fingers closed over a large eraser. He spun it in his fingers for a few moments then appeared to remove something then added some small detail, his expression intense but unreadable, even to the brother who knew him best.

Some small noise must have alerted Gordon who suddenly flung himself on to the bed and enveloped Virgil in a hug.

The sketchpad slipped to the floor and Scott slowly sat back down again.

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[materialsscienceandengineering]

Adding a small amount of solid carbon to copper boosts its conductivity

A common carbon compound is enabling remarkable performance enhancements when mixed in just the right proportion with copper to make electrical wires. It's a phenomenon that defies conventional wisdom about how metals conduct electricity. The findings, reported in the journal Materials & Design, could lead to more efficient electricity distribution to homes and businesses, as well as more efficient motors to power electric vehicles and industrial equipment. The team has applied for a patent for the work, which was supported by the Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office. Materials scientist Keerti Kappagantula and her colleagues at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered that graphene, single layers of the same graphite found in pencils, can enhance an important property of metals called the temperature coefficient of resistance.

Read more.

[saytrrose]

Tell me a mineral fact you mineral master

MINERAL MASTER I’m stealing this

uhhhhhhh did you know diamonds and pencil graphite are identical chemically, both are composed of carbon but ofc physically, very different

[fizzlepopcreationz]

so i may have gone a little crazy with this one. but this is one 18x24” piece of black paper! closeups and a short tutorial under the cut!

every line was made by cutting out the white parts! the portraits were made by tracing the dark areas of a photograph onto tracing paper. if you’d like to try something similar, i’ll line out a quick summary of how this was made :)

1. choose a photograph (optional, you can also just make a drawing!)

1.5. (if using a photo) using a light box or a window, trace dark areas of the photograph onto some tracing paper with a black marker. be sure that all of the black areas are touching at least 2 others!! this is so your design doesn’t fall out of the paper. leaving a border around the design helps.

2. place the tracing paper or drawing on some carbon paper on top of the paper you’re going to cut, or you can take a regular pencil or graphite stick and cover the back of the image so it’ll transfer.

3. trace all of the white/empty areas of your design with a ballpoint pen so the lines will be sharp. a pencil can also work, but the tip wears down if your design is large, making your lines thicker. use your best judgement!

4. when all of the white shapes are transferred, you can start cutting it out! be sure to use a cutting mat and sharp exacto knife. it’s a lot harder with a dull blade. you may need to change blades a few times, i sure did.

5. and then you’re done! i’m sure you can use this method for other projects too! this is just what we did in class.

as for the thought process behind my design, that could be a whole separate post. the short answer is that it’s an identity portrait, so i have elements of all of my long standing interests. the vines, mushrooms, clouds and rainbow are all symbolic of my love of nature. the lightning and sunshower are meant to represent my emotional landscape and how turbulent it can be, but also my love of weather. the sun is wearing sunglasses because i think it’s ok to get goofy sometimes, but also it is the shape of my state’s symbol. the flower guy sitting on top of the mushroom is just a little mascot dude i’ve included in other art of mine, he deserved to be included here :) there’s more but use your imagination!

[garadinervi]

Alison Knowles, by Alison Knowles, (series of ten sheets of paper with carbon copy, typewriter, ink, blue pencil, and graphite, with additions by Dick Higgins and unknown hands), ca. 1965 [MoMA, New York, NY. © Alison Knowles]

[this-is-not-a-slow-burn]

When you don't have carbon paper or transfer paper for applying an existing image to something else, you make your tracing with tracing paper, and then scribble on the back of that tracing with a very soft lead pencil. Then you lay the tracing paper scribble side down onto whatever you want to apply the image to, and trace over the traced lines again, with a bit of pressure so it transfers the graphite from the back onto the object underneath.

This is a tried and true method, used the world round.

I found out the fun way that sometimes this process can result in creepy accidental images

This is the back side of the tracing paper, where I scribbled the soft pencil.

[doctorhelena]

how does graphite work as a lubricant

Hey, anon!

So, I have chosen to assume that you are asking me (a Peggy Carter blog) this because I have an engineering degree and enjoy reblogging science posts, and not for any, uh, other reason, but just in case, please do not use graphite to lubricate any human body parts. I can't say that I know what would happen (I'm an engineer, not a biologist - and despite my blog name I'm not actually a doctor!) but there are probably several very good reasons it's not sold for that purpose.

ANYWAY. I am always up for discussing graphite!

Carbon can form all sorts of neat molecules made up solely of carbon atoms - diamonds, nanotubes, buckminsterfullerene (otherwise known as bucky balls - and yes, a lot of physics and engineering terms do sound dirty, although they are usually actually not!), and several others, including graphite.

(One cool fact about carbon is that two of its three naturally occurring forms are diamond, the hardest naturally occurring substance, and graphite, one of the softest known substances! And yes, with enough temperature and pressure applied, graphite will become diamond). 

So in graphite, the carbon atoms are very strongly bonded together in flat sheets, and then a whole bunch of these sheets are "stacked" on top of each other, held together by much weaker bonds. Since the bonds between the sheets are not nearly as strong as the bonds within each individual sheet, the sheets slide over each other quite easily. This makes graphite very slippery, which is why it makes a good lubricant.

(Brief pause for definition: a lubricant is a slippery substance used to reduce friction between moving parts (a) so they move against each other more smoothly, (b) to reduce the amount of heat they produce as they move against each other (which equals energy loss and can also cause its own problems), and (c) to stop the parts from being damaged and/or wearing down as quickly. And yes, the kind of lubricant you use on human body parts also fits that definition!)

One benefit to using graphite (rather than oil) as a lubricant for mechanical parts is that it doesn't leave a sticky residue, so it's a good choice when you might get dust and dirt getting into the works (which, if mixed with oil residue, will gunk things up and eventually make them stop working). So graphite is a good choice as a lubricant in things like locks, hinges, gears, conveyor belts, etc. It also has a high temperature and pressure tolerance, which is one reason it's widely used in the aerospace industry. 

However, although you will often apply graphite lubricant by mixing it with a solvent (that will later evaporate once the graphite is in place), you would not want to use graphite as a lubricant in a situation where it might come in contact with other solvents, oils, water, etc., because they might wash the graphite away.

(Side note: the slippery property of graphite is also what makes it good in pencils - the layers of graphite easily slide off each other and onto the paper as you drag the pencil tip along!)

Anyway, anon, I hope I have answered your graphite question and you have enjoyed today's installment of Science With Doc. 

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[captain-alex-grayson]

Nobody has permission to use my art. Don't repost it. Don't save it. Don't fucking cross post it. Do not fucking use my art. Unless I give explicit consent nobody can use my art. Anyways...

Just a painting of Dante that I did. Used a screenshot I took when I inevitably went down during the Vergil boss fight. I was testing out my new Cotman Watercolors. I got the smaller travel case bc I was on a budget. I also used Windsor and Newton titanium white and lamp black to mix the greys. As well as zenacolor watercolor pencils for ya boi's hair.

Basically I can't draw realistic people, I do a lot of tracing to help with that. I used Canson tracing paper and a pencil to trace over my screenshot of Dante after flipping the image. Then I went over the tracing and added as much graphite as possible. I taped the tracing down graphite side to watercolor paper. Then, I traced over the image again to do a carbon transfer. I did it this way instead of scribbling over the tracing bc scribbling like that can leave indents that can't be hidden should I need to use my watercolor pencils. When I thought I had traced well enough I removed the tracing sheet and set it aside, still haven't decided if I'm going to reuse it. I taped my border down (first time ever doing that bc it never occurred to me that I really don't need to fill a whole 9x12 page). Then I went over what I had transferred to my paper; basically drawing Dante yet again. After making that sketch and adjusting for things that didn't completely transfer I used my General's kneaded eraser to gently lighten the sketch to prep for painting over. I worked left to right since I have known myself to fuck up and smear my paint. It took me 20 minutes to mix as close to his skin tone as possible and I believe I made at least 7 different shades of grey. I was going to do more shading and little details but quickly realized if I didn't chill on the details, I would start to fucking hate my painting. I used Strathmore 400 series watercolor paper, I don't remember what kind of press the paper is but I do know it's not cold press. I used a set of watercolor brushes that I got for Christmas (all the packaging is written in Japanese) and two really really tiny 0000 and 000 cotman round watercolor brushes.

I will say the Windsor and Newton colors carry a lot of pigment so less is very much more. I was constantly replacing my water and diluting my colors.

[idkillbabynevillechamberlain]

“Also Sprach Zarathustra: In Vibrant Technicolour”

“My drawing of astronaut Dave Bowman (portrayed by Keir Dullea) in the Stanley Kubrick film “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Done in black and white using graphite and carbon pencils back in September of last year, I’ve digitally hand colourised it using Adobe Photoshop.