So, as it turns out, Skottie inks his drawings traditionally instead of digitally.
Interesting.
The pens that he said he usually uses are:
- Pentel Pocket Brush Pen [made in Japan]
- Kuretake Brush Pen [made in Japan]
After I found this out I wanted to try and use a brush pen to test out how to use it to ink.
So off to the Duck store I went. At first I didn’t manage to find the ones that Skottie uses, so I just picked out the brush pens from:
- Copic
- Sakura
- PrismaColor
- FaberCastell
Funny thing though, after picking them out, I glanced over at some other random pens and there it was! The Pentel Pocket Brush! It looked like someone returned it, but I thought it was really funny because it was the only one there. How fortunate! Lol
But, instead of putting back the other pens (and potentially saving $10) I decided to buy them too so that I could experiment with all of them.
So here they are:
Anyways, so I messed around with them in my sketchbook, and these were my impressions of the tools (click to enlarge and read):
So I found that the Pentel Pocket Brush might now work out soo soo well for me, but since I spent the money on it, I’m going to keep it of course. I kinda like the PrismaColor Pen the best.
However, using these pens to work on details made me wonder what scale he works on to ink these, and what kind of surface..? Is the table tilted for the ink to flow differently?
Just some other things that I would need to keep in mind.
Here’s the reference pic that I used to test the pens with:
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Aha, so the Duck Store DID have the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen. Curses! It wasn't there when I looked so I bought the Pentel Color Brush Pen Black. But yeah, the Brush Pen takes some getting used to but it's really cool.
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