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The usual pens ran out of ink so I went through the pen drawer for options. I am irrationally excited about my new inking arsenal. The next comic (posted tonight if the scanner works) was inked with this variety of pens:<\/p>\nThe usual pens ran out of ink so I went through the pen drawer for options. I am irrationally excited about my new inking arsenal. The next comic (posted tonight if the scanner works) was inked with this variety of pens:<\/p>\n
left to right:<\/em> Sailor Fude Nagomi fine point, Deleter Neopiko Line 3 (super-fine), another Sailor Fude Nagomi (dual fine\/medium point), Derwent Graphik, old reliable Sakura Pigma Micron, and Ohto Graphic Liner.<\/p>\n The Sailor brush pens give a different look to the comic than usual, but I am loving them. I almost don’t need any other pen than one of these, since the fine gives so much variation. I had been using the extra fine on previous comics, and it has only a little width variation in comparison. But, I do love extra-extra-fine lines, and the Deleter Neopiko Line 3 at 0.03mm<\/a> may be the finest (while still reliable) pen I’ve used yet.<\/p>\n Every time I go back to a brush pen after using the Micron pens, I have this revelation once again that I prefer a brush-pen line (albeit a very fine one).<\/p>\n Some random tests of the random assortment from the drawer (click to see larger): The usual pens ran out of ink so I went through the pen drawer for options. I am irrationally excited about my new inking arsenal. The next comic (posted tonight if the scanner works) was inked with this variety of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spqrblues.com\/V\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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