Editing The Pen Addict 176/transcript (section)

== Colored Leads ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, so yeah, I'll be looking for some colored leads as well and a new pointer. So it's cool. I'll be using it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And, uh, yeah, they were, uh, they, they were in the range of 25 to like $30, um, depending on what you got, which it's a great, really, really great deal for that. Uh, I mean, I just had to took a look on cold pens and I can't find any like HB in color. So again, I don't know if it's like something that's difficult to do. I don't know. Or maybe like, I just don't know what I'm looking for properly. So I would appreciate something on that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Maybe colored leads don't come in a defined hardness. Yeah. You know, I don't know just maybe because of how they're made. I don't, I have no idea. I'm just blabbing, but that may be the case.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So I'd love some feedback from people. I know there's going to be some people in the chat room, uh, that are going to know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. So, um, I was, uh, trolling Twitter, what, two nights ago or last night, I can't even remember. And, uh, your good friend, Georgia Dow was, uh, who I follow on Twitter. I've never talked to her before, but, um, she, of all things, she posts posts, want to try the benefits of meditation, but don't enjoy it. Try coloring. And she has these great colorings that she's done on there. And then, uh, your other friend, uh, Marco's wife, Tiffany chimes in like, Hey, what pencils are you using? And they have this whole conversation. And then I, I just completely insert myself into their, uh, into their conversation about coloring. And Georgia and I go back, back and forth a little bit. And it's just like the randomest thing of all time is this coloring thing. It's like, everyone knows about it. Everyone's getting into it and, and doing all these great things with it. So, uh, it's funny to see like your other, other people you follow on Twitter who you wouldn't, who you would least expect to do something like this, um, to end up, you know, sharing their coloring work on Twitter. It's catching on, man.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's nothing you can do about it. So my 20 pack came in, uh, which I'm very happy about. And, uh, Colt Pen sent me an email and they were like, so sorry about the 30. We cannot get like, apparently stat like cannot keep up with demand right now. Right. Like it's that insane. Um, so like, I thought it was quite funny, but it's nice to have a bit more variation. I was doing a little bit more, um, on, on that big circular piece that I was working on. And it was nice to have, uh, some different shades to, to, to work with, to try and kind of vary up a little bit more. Um, I might stick with the 20 for a bit, um, and see how I go because I'm looking at like how big the 20 pack is. A 30 pack is going to be huge. I don't really know if I want it on my desk because I keep them on my desk because they're, you know, they're just there for when I want to pull it out and start doing something. So, uh, yeah, I'm, I'm interested. Um, to continue down this path. Uh, and I'm looking forward to doing a little bit more on it. And it's, it is really fun to see, um, non pen addicts, I guess, getting involved in this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I'll fall out when I see, uh, John Syracuse to like tweet out his drawings. That, that's when, you know that, that it's made it right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. That's, it's only a matter of time. John is an artist. So.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, okay. So maybe he'll do it. Yeah. He went to art school. He tweets him out. Okay. I did not know that. There you go. I did not know that. But I want to, um, I want to explore the, the colored pencil realm too. And, uh, our good friend Anna, who's in the chat room, she was on the erasable podcast last night and, uh, I haven't listened yet, but they, uh, talked about, it was a whole colored pencils episode and they, uh, definitely talked about, um, the adult coloring thing. So y'all check that out. We'll put a link in the show notes and, uh, I'll listen to it tonight. I was pretty out of the loop, uh, yesterday. So I'm still catching up on all the, all the goodness out there. So definitely check that out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I thought we'd decided on grownup coloring.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Grownup coloring. Yes. I prefer grownup coloring. Yeah. I'm going to, uh, work that in. Oh, and before we, before we jump on and we, we do have another, uh, little, one little bit on this. I wanted to mention, I am efforting hard at the Joanna Basford thing. I've, I've made contact with her people. She has people, Myke. So I'm, I'm dealing, I'm dealing with her people right now. So we'll, we'll see what I can get done.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. But you are there. You are making inroads at least.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I am making inroads progress. We have progress.