White Mechanical Pencil Lead: Truth or Myth?

[ChaoticKnight]

Does anyone know if it exists and where I might find it? I've tried:
Looking online,
Pearl,
Utrecht,
Staples.
Almost everywhere that I know to look. Anyone know anything?
:xpld:

[wisdom_of_trees]

I've never heard of it, but if it existed I'd be one of the first people in line for it.

[sciboy]

I've got blue, red and yellow for my 0.5mm mechanical.
Never heard of or seen a white, you're probably better off grabbing a good ol' wooden color pencil.

[YVerloc]

It's over there in the corner, behind that bucket of prop wash.

[codenothing]

even if you find it, its just not worth it. Ive tried blue before, and it breaks like crazy. your better off with a good pencil sharpener and just realising your gona need to buy a lot of pencils. :[

[That fat kid]

Snag a prismacolor white, prismacolor verithin white, a colerase white, or a stick of white conte. They all can be sharpened to a deadly point. Or get one of those gelly roll white pens.....they tend to spit and gum up, but every now and again they're awesome. Plus, they're self contained. They just don't erase so you'll have to grow some balls and live with your marks.

[ChaoticKnight]

They just don't erase so you'll have to grow some balls and live with your marks.
I just appreciate that so much. My eyes are open to a whole new world of art.
/m\ \w/

Anyway, thanks for everyones comment. I just like being able to use mechanical pencils because they allow for easier handling and less mess in pencil cases. The problem with keeping most pencil sharpeners and regular pencils in cases is that they break or the sharpeners lose a lot of their contents in the bag, putting graphite everywhere. I just thought it would be so easy just to carry around 2 mechanical pencils and a brown pad everywhere. Oh well.

[That fat kid]

Seriously, Manky aspects aside, the Gelly roll pen is totally usable for that. Carry the white pen and the normal mechanical pencil and you can rock out with just those two things and the sketchbook. Check out steak-tron's sketchbook if you haven't.

I guess I should have known that sarcasm meets sarcasm....

[ChaoticKnight]

Alright I'll check it out. I've used a gel pen but on certain types of paper it dried up to nothing. I use tortillions to blend alot in my greyscale work, so id have to strictly use it for the strongest of highlights.
I would've never known about the world of manky if it weren't for you.:yayca:

[brianhamner]

You might also want to check out a pencil called "Scribe all" made by "General"
Not sure how well they blend with tortillons, but they have a superior marking ability to the prisma white. Cost like a buck for a pack of 2, worth having even if you dont use regularly, cause they mark on everything, and they go down like a #2 pencil.

[ChaoticKnight]

Cool thanks I'll check that out!