Mahl Stick

 After getting thought about half my A3 sketch I found my hand was starting to smudge some of the work, so decided to try out a Mahl Stick. After having to look up what they were called I decided to make my own from an old hackie sack, some left over felt offcuts with a bit of dowl timber I had lying around.

Takes a bit of getting use to using and I can see myself modifying the stick with some felt or leather to soften up the stick part that your hand rests on.  I may even need to go for a thicker dowl, but I’ll give the home made one a bit more of a workout. Main thing is that it works and I’m not smudging the drawing.

Home made Mahl stick