Kind Of Couldnt Let Humanity Forget About This.

Kind of couldn’t let humanity forget about this.

About Hannibal’s drawing pencils…(Decided to make a whole separate post about Hannibal Lecter’s drawing supplies to keep all the things I figured out after really attentive, extensive and obsessive research & viewing. Thanks to @existingcharactersdiehorribly for signal boosting my original questions! Sharing the fruit of my labours for the good of all Fannibals.)

1. Free range psychiatrist drawing habits

Hannibal DOES, in fact, draw with Tombow MONO graphite drawing pencils! (Originally, I just tossed the idea out there because these beautiful Japanese pencils seemed to fit his style, and it was an accurate guess.) These are professional drawing pencils, high-density graphite, strong point, smooth line. Hannibal has several at hand when he is drawing (which makes sense since his drawings have different values): in one scene, he’s shown with four different pencils while working on one sketch.

In case you want to sketch like Baltimore socialite Hannibal, this is a Tombow MONO.

He sharpens them with a scalpel (again, makes sense, a blade is preferable to a pencil sharpener for a better point).

Hannibal doesn’t seem to use a kneaded eraser, which is strange, nor have I spotted a blending stump (tortillon), but he has an ergonomically shaped triangular eraser. It looks like one of Faber-Castell grip erasers, the one Hannibal uses is the triangular shape but in a dark colour, possibly dark green (?). He also has a brush (to brush off the bits of eraser from the drawing).

2. Cooped up BSHCI resident drawing habits

Apparently Dr Alana Bloom provides Hannibal with quality drawing supplies. Unlike his usual set of hexagonal graphite pencils, Hannibal is seen with a single black round one. The lead is very black, suggesting a mix of charcoal and wax or charcoal and lead. It would have a soft matte finish. After squinting about 1001 times watching it roll over Hannibal’s table for half a second, I am certain it is Sanford Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencil, 935 Black, which is actually much more expensive than a single MONO drawing pencil (rough estimate: approx. $6.50 for 935 Black vs. approx. $1.50 for a Mono?). Alana is really pampering Hannibal.

In case you want to sketch like Hannibal in BSHCI, this is a Sanford Prismacolor Premier 935 Black.

(NB: Hannibal also uses a different pencil while in BSHCI, specifically, during the coversation with Alana about his insanity plea. The non-drawing tip is similar to the Tombow MONO, but I can give no definitive opinion yet.)

So far I haven’t been able to identify Hannibal’s drawing paper (loose sheets). He seems to use at least two types, one which appears heavier and with a warm tint (example), the other less heavy, smooth and prone to minor creasing (example), probably for looser preliminary sketches? But there’s also an unfinished study of a woman on a warm-tinted (or perhaps yellowed with age?), thinner, slightly creased paper (this one). Examples from NBC Hannibal site.

If you have any ideas about the grain, weight, tint, and brand of Hannibal’s drawing paper, or any observations of his use of erasers and blending stumps, please let me know! Or just chime in if you, too, care about Hannibal’s drawing supplies.

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𝚓𝚊𝚗𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚢𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚊𝚜 '𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚎' 𝚒𝚗 "𝚓𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚗𝚍: 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚎" 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟹, 𝚙𝚝.𝟺

𝚓𝚊𝚗𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚢𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚊𝚜 '𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚎' 𝚒𝚗 "𝚓𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚗𝚍: 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚎" 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟹, 𝚙𝚝.𝟿

𝚓𝚊𝚗𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚢𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚊𝚜 '𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚎' 𝚒𝚗 "𝚓𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚗𝚍: 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚎" 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟹, 𝚙𝚝.𝟾

𝚓𝚊𝚗𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚢𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚊𝚜 '𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚎' 𝚒𝚗 "𝚓𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚗𝚍: 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚎" 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟹, 𝚙𝚝.𝟷𝟽

𝚓𝚊𝚗𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚢𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚊𝚜 '𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚎' 𝚒𝚗 "𝚓𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚗𝚍: 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚎" 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟹, 𝚙𝚝.𝟸