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I like pens, but I hate making mistakes and not being able to remove them.

Well, you can shade with pencils, but for cartoon and charicature drawing I use a 0.4mm pen. I don't erase a lot, so really, using pen doesn't affect my life greatly. 

EDIT: That was a seriously bad typo. 

Last edited by The_Dancing_Donut (2010-11-17 03:59:58)

scmb1 wrote:

Anyone left-handed? Do you get lead all over the side of your had when you write with pencil? I do.

Yep.

Harakou wrote:

Pencil
1. Erasable
2. Required in some classes
3. I have a mechanical pencil. When I run out of lead, I just refill.

yeah, I have a ton of mechanicals. My class has a pen collector though, and he claims that he doesn't own a pencil 
@chrischb: yeah, one time we were making maps of africa and he had to redo his 3 times because of tiny mistakes. 

I use pencils only when I am doodling in History.

Mechanical pencils or pens.

I REALLY don't like using pens.

Here's my reasoning:
1. I can only use pens in some of my classes,
2. If I need to print something in ink, I type it!
3. I like the faded look of not too sharp, but not too dull pencils.

Mechanical Pencils!!!

Usually, I prefer to use mechanical pencils. As long as they're not the kind where the lead breaks immediately after it touches the paper 
The funny thing I've noticed is that basically the only class which requires the use of a specific writing implement is Maths.. and that's not even consistent country to country! here in New Zealand I've gotten into trouble for writing in pencil, while in the US I was disciplined for using pen! 

scmb1 wrote:

Anyone left-handed? Do you get lead all over the side of your had when you write with pencil? I do.

Yes! This definitely happens to me all the time 

I, however, have a strong distaste for pens, and I can only write neatly/smoothly with a pencil. It is also nearly impossible to do math with a pen, and that, being what I spend the most time doing, is an important thing to consider.

So I'm going to have to choose pencil for this debate 

Pencil and eraser. I'm horrible at spelling.

JeanTheFox wrote:

I use pencils on rough drafts of my writing, then I use pen for my better copy, then I finally use my treasured feather pen to write my good copy or I just type it. I love writing 

You have a feather pen? AWESOMELY AWESOME!