When you want to make a quick pen sketch or doodle, what pen do any of you guys prefer if any? Brand and model?
At the moment, I’m liking this Sanford Uni-ball Grip Micro. Ink doesn’t flow too fast so that I can control line width fairly good by how much pressure I give it, from really thin wispy lines to a decent thick/bold single pass line.
Yeah, I actually like bics too. You can “feel” or ghost your line before really layin’ it down. Better shading also; with the uni-ball, shading is sometimes like an on/off switch.
HighMark MEDIUM c990C…sketches with a very light tone, its a BP pen like a bic but doesnt bleed, has a smaller BP than a BIC, and unfortunately, the company went out of business a long time ago, and I found this pen rummaging through an old storage cabinet at my company and can longer buy anymore! sucks, so i protect it like its gold =(
Kind of off topic, I guess, since I don’t sketch with a pen. I use any cheap .5 propelling pencil I can find, and use coloured leads (red & blue, but only one of the two for each sketch). Coloured leads don’t only look good, but also have a very different feel to the gray/normal ones.
My favorite is the Zebra JIMNIE Fine 0.7. They’re a little hard to come by at stores- but you can usually get them online. I tend to sketch small, so fine lines are good to get those little details in.
If it’s a really organic shape- I like pencils though. Mostly indigo blue Prismacolor Verithins- they stay pretty sharp and you can get lots of contrast out of 'em.
I also like to draw with a 6H drawing pencil for ideations-- stays sharp for SO long, and its really light- which is kind of nice when you’re trying to come up with a neat form. Then you can go back and darken/tighten up the ideas you like with a pen.
I like to sketch with sharpies sometimes too, if i think i’ve been sketching a little too tight. The ones with the fine/ultra fine dual tips.
Wow I had more to say than I thought… haha.
Black paper mate medium points on yellow lined office pads are my fav for ideas. The blue and red lines make the whole thing so funny. I once tried to take this idea a step futher and started printing designs on the yellow gooodness… and that was the day when I realized that I had completely lost it.
i like the sound papermate lubriglide 1.0 makes on a sketch book.
i also have two types of pelikan fountain pens. i got an old original pelikan i think it’s from fifties. it’s grey with a gold cap and tip. i was walking in the street one day in tehran and ran into this pen shop. i started talking to the guy and told him i’m a designer so he showed me his private collection. he had a lot of old fountain pens, this one grabbed my attention. i asked him to show it to me, so he took it out of its box and told me it’s one of a kind and has never been used. i took a look at the tip it had a very nice broad shape and told him i like it so he said ok i’ll sell it to you for half price- it’s your lucky day because i’m closing the shop and you know about pens! he was right it’s an excellent pen, better than the montblanc, parker, and all the other stuff i used before.
and i got a new cheap pelikan i bought in iran for almost $4.50. that’s very good too.
staedler makes a ball point that i happen to like very much, one other nice thing was the fact that per pen its a little cheaper then the pilot razor’s. anyone know of a nice fountain for this same application