Pen Holder
The Thought Process
The Lihit Lab pen holder is ribbed on the inside with progressively smaller concentric circles to accommodate (in theory) any size and shape of pen. It’s a very creative solution to allow for continued relevance when mass manufactures for any number of users. These concentric circles would technically work for my use, but why make something general when I could make it special? Also, because my print will be made out of hard plastic rather than the soft silicon that the Lihit Lab holder is made of, making the edges of the hole as smooth as possible will help prevent scratching of the pen tip.
For this prompt I designed a pen holder for my cintiq pen. I have two separate drawing tablets, and I have this cute cat pen holder that I use for holding whichever tablet pen I’m currently using, but because I only have one pen holder the pen that’s not in use often gets lost. To solve this problem, I decided to design a second cat pen holder that’s specifically fitted to my cintiq tablet pen. To make sure the pen holder fit the pen properly, I started by designing the pen itself, and then projected that into my pen holder model as reference. To set the two pen holders apart, I added a cute tail to this model.
The end goal when beginning to design was to create something that’s both functional and aesthetic. This is admittedly somewhat of a copy of the Lihit Lab calico pen stand which I already own, and to justify creating this model rather than simply spending the ten dollars to get another one, I wanted to make sure it was uniquely functional for me.
To get the perfect fit for my pen tip, I projected the model I made of my Cintiq pen into my pen holder model and then created a loft going from the widest point of the tip to the point. I then created a second loft between the tip of the pen body and the tip of the pen nib. I wanted to keep the conical opening as smooth as possible, but I thought creating separate openings for the body of the pen tip and the pen nib would be helpful because they have different downward angles.
