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 āSprinterā variant, where that back section has a coiled spring.
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Very nice, Ray!
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Thatās pretty ace!!!
Howād 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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é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 Iāll post them here some day. Or maybe I could send them to Pentel with a āPlease Hire Meā 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 ā¦ drawingsā¦ paintingā¦ I decided I was going to make a MPā¦ but the only school that had āproduct+CNCā (we used to call that āindustrial drawingā) was far up north in Braga and out of my reach (and want $$$)ā¦ So I decided to join an art schoolā¦ that completely changed my prospects and way of being.
Art school is a wonderful experience, if you discount the āgivensā (stupid politics, institutionalised non-sense and etc). I majored last year (September) from the best āalternativeā school in Lisbon (AR.CO Lisbon), as opposed to the best academy school (ESBAL).
Being at ARCO changed my outlook on life completely ā 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 happyā¦ no questions asked. Water and Bread. The prison analogy is my own, a metaphor for commitment and for me it stands for āyou finally found something in your lifeā. Okay the analogy fails completely because Iāve inherited claustrophobia from my mom and just reading about it gets me gasping for air, but you know what I mean.
Long story cut short: a bug remains. And that is making a mechanical pencil bugā¦ I need to get that out of my system, so either Iāll just post my drawings someday and wish 'em luck ā or Iāll have to learn 3D and CNC and make one (which is unlikely cos Iām 53, Iām getting lazy, and itās 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