Nov11
Doodles With New Pen
on November 11th, 2009I found a great pen for sketching on normal paper (when not wanting to waste valuable, expensive bristol). It’s the Pilot Laser Point pen. Micron Pigma pens, which I use to draw the comics on bristol, don’t have the same effect on normal paper…and I think normal paper wears out the Micron pen tip.
Here are some doodles from said pen (the Pilot Laser Point), on computer paper. I think it has a good line quality with just the slight amount of bleed that I think makes inked lines look nice and organic. Click the image to view it larger.
Excellent work, D.
Like the sketches, like the effect.
Thanks! I need to do more random sketching. I don’t do it as much as I should.
Those are wicked!
Glad you like them! I’ll probably put up more stuff like this more often.
Do you do your comics on vellum Bristol or the slick stuff? I don’t find that the slick stuff has enough tooth for me. I probably would get a cleaner line on it though, but again, I want that hand-drawn look.
I actually use smooth Bristol. I don’t know what my initial reasoning was when I opted for smooth over vellum, but I think it’s that I draw really fast and it can make the Micron pens I use look scratchy after a few uses, as if the rougher vellum surface wears out the pen tip or something, like microscopic sandpaper. Maybe that’s all in my head, though. The smooth just seems to be easier on the pens and gives quicker, more solid lines when I’m line-shading.
Interesting. I use the Micron Pens myself and I haven’t noticed them wearing out. Does the ink dry slower on the smooth stuff? I would be afraid I would smudge the inks when I slid my ruler over the surface.
The only thing I use a ruler for is the panel boxes, and I have a raised-edge ruler so the ink doesn’t pool up against it and smudge when I pull the ruler away.
But as far as drying time overall, probably a second or so longer than on vellum. I do wait a bit for it to dry before erasing the pencil lines, because sometimes there will be a small bead of drying ink if you just drew there. (i.e., don’t draw with ink and immediately erase the pencil)