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Hi - after reading 'The Addictive Sketcher' I'm interested in using brush pens for sketches. I've been using a grey Fibralo water soluble pen to good effect. Adebanji uses Tombow dual ended wash pens, which look good, but are a tad expensive. They also come in sets , and I know I won't use all the colours so it will be a waste.
I was wondering if anybody has a personal recommendation for this type of brush pen, or knows if they can be purchased individually anywhere.
Many Thanks.
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Hi Andrew
I bought a selection of Tombow pens a few years ago after reading Adebanjis book, and they are good to use and have lasted well. I bought mine individually but can’t think where from! I will try to dig through my records and find out.
I definitely recommend them.
Having looked further I know you can get individual pens from www.cultpens.com which I think is where I got mine as I’ve used them before. They are £2.35 each there. I’m not advertising! I just looked and obviously other suppliers are available!
I bought about 10 and often combine one or two with normal drawing pens if out and about sketching.
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by Tessa Gwynne
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Seconding the recommendation for Cult Pens - they're very good. There are other sites, like Tom's Studio (the kindly Uncle Google will find it) which are well worth a look - the Lumos pen is currently acquiring my lustful glances, but it is expensive, at £50 plus.
Just to issue a caveat here, though - yes, we have hundreds of pens now available to us, with waterproof inks that are supposed not to clog the pen, as Indian ink will; and we have disposable fineliners with pigment ink, so lightfast. And all of these things are very wonderful, and we're lucky to have them.
It's perhaps useful though to bear in mind that the great Victorian illustrators of so many books and periodicals had just Indian ink, and a selection of dip pen nibs; these are still available, as are mapping pens, crow quills, the lot. They were good enough for Tenniel, Rackham, the cartoonists Low, and Giles; and the illustrator Fougasse (who often used a brush). AND - this is why they appeal to me - they are as cheap as chips and last forever, unless you're a Ralph Steadman - who has made something of a career, though to great effect, in destroying nibs....
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Granted - these old pens would be a bit of a problem to use on the train or 'bus, as Adebanji does: but I can never draw on a bus anyway: Isle of Wight roads are, they say, "different" - i.e. it's like driving over cobbles on most of them: try holding a pen and pad on an IW bus, and at least you'd get an interesting broken line...
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Tessa you are lovely. People like you make this such a nice site.I agree… but Tessa, you’ve now just ‘made’ me spend £30 + on some pens!! 😂 Incidentally…. What type of paper would you recommend (in A4 or A3), to sketch with using water soluble inks & pens? I’ve got a (basic) watercolour pad, and a drawing pad, but neither allow for much blending with water. I’ve tried some aqua markers on both, and was not happy with the lack of blending capabilities.
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