Looks almost like a high-tech medical injection device, or droid apparatus appendage you might see in a sci-fi movie/series. 
I really like it. I would also be cool to see a “Sprinter” variant, where that back section has a coiled spring.
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Very nice, Ray!
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That’s pretty ace!!!
How’d you go from here to make a prototype? (using a prefab mechanism from a manufacturer)
Also, I hope to see one of your pencils on Blade Runner 3.
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Damascus steel MP for Alita!
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銃夢 is one of my all time favourites, but not the movie. I have the whole set of manga.
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I started with the Taiwan edition when I was training there with the Singapore Army in early 1990s. Then I continued with the English version much later. Fantastic art!
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I have a bunch of MP sketches/prototypes, maybe 2 moleskines of it. Some are crap but others not so bad I think.
Maybe I’ll post them here some day. Or maybe I could send them to Pentel with a “Please Hire Me” written on a beautiful card with a palm tree, attached to it.
After I got sacked from the school where I worked (the school sacked everybody and was shut down) I sat figuring what I could do … drawings… painting… I decided I was going to make a MP… but the only school that had “product+CNC” (we used to call that “industrial drawing”) was far up north in Braga and out of my reach (and want $$$)… So I decided to join an art school… that completely changed my prospects and way of being.
Art school is a wonderful experience, if you discount the “givens” (stupid politics, institutionalised non-sense and etc). I majored last year (September) from the best “alternative” school in Lisbon (AR.CO Lisbon), as opposed to the best academy school (ESBAL).
Being at ARCO changed my outlook on life completely — right now, I could be locked in a cave somewhere for 10 years and I would just paint and draw and work for 20 hours a day and I would be happy… no questions asked. Water and Bread.
Long story cut short: a bug remains. And that is making a mechanical pencil… I need to get that out of my system, so either I’ll just post my drawings someday and wish 'em luck — or I’ll have to learn 3D and CNC and make one (which is unlikely cos I’m 53, I’m getting lazy, and it’s just too much work for a single person).
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I like the first one and if possible, supersize it as a magic wand size and it sure will be lengendary