🛼 TREE 187: Slidey tools

Here are the drawing tools I use:

My mechanical pencil never needs sharpened and never gets dull. My brush pen is like a brush except the ink comes from the inside. My fountain pen has a bendy nib like a dip pen but requires no dipping. I loathe dipping.

These tools do away with the unnecessary friction of sharpening and dipping. (Oh, please sharpen me! I feel so dull. Oh, Jeff, I’m drying out. Dip me! Dip me!) My tools are slidey, not needy. They let me keep my attention on my drawing.

Questions:

1. Are you using any tools that are taking too much of your time and attention away from the the actual thing you are doing? If so, what better tools can you replace them with?

2. What tool do you love because it gets out of the way and lets you do your work? Let the FOREST know – hit the comment button and tell us about your tool.¹ It could be anything – something you use in the kitchen, a sewing machine, an Excel formula, a spanner. Whatever takes the friction our of your work, we want to know about it. Let’s get super nerdy!

In the comments today, I’ll tell you about the supergreat app I use to write TREE.

Grow slowly
Jeff

Sometimes a hopeful Spotify search works out.

The Memory of TREE playlist – every song from every email:

1. I’m laughing at this because I’m grown up and mature.