Urk, not February again.
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The loose pencil layouts for Big Project are coming in useful for playing with different pens and pencils and Copic markers. After this mundane scene exciting stuff in a scientifictional vein happens.
From this bit of rough scribbling I learned that Kuretake Zig CocoIro pens smear horrendously under an eraser on the Canson paper I used for the sketches [update! unless you let the ink dry for an hour!], and that I have no idea how to scan this so the grey shading doesn’t look weird.
Oddly, I’m most pleased with the sketch of the faucet.
Sketch of the day: Microtomic pencil, perfect for your hovercar
on February 19th, 2012Posted In: sketch of the day
“Microtomic” sounds like a pencil 1950s people thought we’d all be writing with when reporters were jotting down news stories on Mars.
Here’s another site with more about the vintage versions of the Blackwing 602 and the Microtomic pencils. I think I shall use this Microtomic to work on getting the next comic finished.
Sketch of the day: Pen Geekery with Pilot Petits
on February 16th, 2012Posted In: sketch of the day
(The actual colour of the ink after drying a while is much more day-glo orange than the scan looks on my screen.)
It turns out the fountain pen is much more comfortable to hold without the cap posted (stuck on the back). It still needs to be held at an odd angle to get good ink flow with this ink.
I’m told these pens can also be converted to “eyedroppers” as long as there are no tiny cracks in the body of the pen. Basically, you unscrew the body of the pen, remove the cartridge, add silicone grease to the threads (and a tiny O-ring if the construction of the pen allows it), and then fill the entire body of the pen with ink (with, say, an eyedropper). That way, it will hold more ink. That way, if it isn’t a well-constructed and/or well-greased pen, you will leak ink all over everywhere. Fun and profit!
