This morning I got up early and went out for a walk and a sketch. I was trying out my new Uni Kuru Toga Advance 0.5mm automatic pencil with a 4B lead. The pencil was very comfortable to draw with, probably more so than my last Pentel one, which finally gave up the ghost after many years the other day.

I’m trying to use up half-started sketchpads, and this was done in my Moleskine soft-cover landscape sketchbook. The last time I used it was in 2015! But hey, paper is paper, right? I find that the paper in these high-quality sketchbooks lasts a pretty long time.