Guest review by Tina Koyama Before I got heavily into colored pencils, watercolor brush pens were my coloring medium of choice. It’s hard to resist the huge range of intense, saturated colors many of them come in. Tombow Dual-Brush Pens were my gateway drug, and I managed to acquire quite a few of the line’s…
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Link Love: More Pens, Less Cones.
Post of the Week: When Your Grail Pen Is F**king Expensive (via The Economical Penster) Pens: LAMY Aion in Black (via The Clumsy Penman’s Inkfusion Site) Re-Review: Edison Collier Fountain Pen (via Pencilcase Blog) TactileTurn Mover & Shaker – New Click Mechanism on Kickstarter (via Gourmet Pens) Sailor L’ecoule (via Write to Me Often) The…
Link Love: This Week was Love, Actually.
The DC Pen Show for 2019 is in the bag, as is the Urban Sketch Symposium. Gentleman Stationer and Looped Square have a recap of the pen show and our intrepid, wandering sketcher Tina (Clouds & Coffee) has some sketches from Amsterdam and the symposium. DC is the busiest and one of the most exhausting…
A Plethora of Japanese Planners
Thanks to a very kind reader, Elise, I found myself in possession of an assortment of very unusual Japanese planners. I had never seen any of these before. Over the last two weeks, I went through all of them to compare the layouts of each and did a series of pen tests to assess the…
Tag Team Review: Crane & Co Notebooks
Review by Laura Cameron (and Ana Reinert) Since both Laura and I have ended up purchasing or acquiring several of the same products, we have decided to do some “tag team” reviews where we provide two points of view. Since our pen experience levels differ and our tastes differ, sometimes our opinions will be similar…
Link Love: Operation Kitten
Pens: YStudio Portable Fountain Pens (via Gentleman Stationer) Aurora 88 Demonstrator Fountain Pen (via Clicky Post) Ink: Robert Oster Lake of Fire (via Pen Chalet Blog) Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown (via Pen Habit) Blackstone Scented Inks and Ink Concentrate (via Fountain Pen Inks & Bleach) Blackstone Ink CMYK Kit (via Fountain Pen Inks & Bleach)…
Friday Faves: Inktober
Every October, my Instagram feed turns into a wonderland of illustrations, doodles, and drawings from people at every level in their creative journey. Some are just dipping their toes in the water like fellow Desk contributor Laura Cameron who is taking her first forays into drawing this year to seasoned professionals like comic illustrator Mike…
