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Your favorite drawing pen/pencil?
15 years ago
Artists are like anyone else in that they have their favourite "tools" to use.
For me, my favourite pencil is a Pentel Automatic .07 with non-photo blue leads, and a Pentel .05 with HB leads. Pens, it has varied, but my current faves are the new Sharpie Pens (super-fine lines and they don't bleed!), a regular Sharpie for big areas. I also sometimes, when feeling fancy, will whip out the good old Pentel Brush (sold now as the Pentel Colorbrush) and the new Pentel "Pocket-brush".
Favored media is Canson sketchbooks, Canson bristol, and for comic pages the new Strathmore Smooth-finish comic pages.
For me, my favourite pencil is a Pentel Automatic .07 with non-photo blue leads, and a Pentel .05 with HB leads. Pens, it has varied, but my current faves are the new Sharpie Pens (super-fine lines and they don't bleed!), a regular Sharpie for big areas. I also sometimes, when feeling fancy, will whip out the good old Pentel Brush (sold now as the Pentel Colorbrush) and the new Pentel "Pocket-brush".
Favored media is Canson sketchbooks, Canson bristol, and for comic pages the new Strathmore Smooth-finish comic pages.
for most of my inking I use Pilot Precise V5 pen
I used microns for abit but never liked how they faded once you erased the pencil lines
as for pencils just yer regular No. 2 pencil
I find mechanical pencils are to rigid and make my drawings look stiff
a) Bleed through EVERYthing short of mile thick Stainless Steel at first touch
b) Stain the paper you're using no matter what it is with a sepia brown shadow line and
c) Do the same to several sheets UNDER your drawing even if you use a bleed sheet.
I HATE those things and the demons who thought them up and created them!!
The caps also have a lip on the inside that can catch the tip. A couple times I casually put the cap on one of those pens and heard a nice "CRUNCH".
Regular Sharpie markers bleed, but they will write on anything, never erase, never smudge, and dry instantly. I love them, at least for work that will only be scanned into a computer.
Weird shit... :S
My most often used pens are micron 0.05 0.1 and 0.5, though I am trying out a Pentel something, which I can't read, the thing is totally chinese/japanese.
Heh, it seemed I was not that great at inking on paper. D:
I tried Sharpie pens, too, and I can't get a consistent line out of them. For fine details, I use Bic Micro Metal pens. They are the sweetest pens I've ever used. Naturally, they're discontinued, but I bought a whole bunch of them years ago.