Urban Sketching - Which Pen is Best? Here are my Reviews on 5 Different Brands!
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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There are a huge range of fine liners out there to choose from, and the choice can be a little bit daunting, or exciting!
In my collection I have a range of different pens from Rotring, Derwent Line Makers, Staedler Fine liners, Winsor and Newton and Unipin. All of these are waterfast/waterproof pens, suitable for urban sketching, watercolour sketching and pen and wash/ink and wash techniques.
I'm not going to pretend to be an absolute authority on which pen is best, but over literally thousands of hours of using these different pens I do have a few thoughts and opinions I thought I could share with you!
Chapters:
02:50 - Rotring Pens
03:52 - Staedler Fine Liners
04:44 - Derwent 'Line Makers'
05:00 - Unipin Fine Liners
06:45 - Winsor Newton Pens
08:41 - My go to pens
10:40 - Chisel Tip Pens
12:00 - Grey pens
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Thanks for sharing, I use steadtler a lot was nice to see the difference🙂
Glad it was helpful!
THANKYOU for the info on these drawing brands.
My pleasure!
One of the main problems I have is when using the thinner markers! The tip either breaks, or just starts going into the marker making it unusable! I have been using the 0.05mm staedler , for like 4 months now and the tip is almost gone!
I'm amazed you lasted 4 months with it! Yes the tips go rather quickly, especially on watercolour paper
@@TobySketchLoose yes! This is unfortunately the case. In your experience do most thin markers run out quickly?
@@Peakan they tend not to run out, so much as stop working because I damage the nibs!
I have used unipin in various colours. Have Faber Castell sepia. Wondering about fountain pen which some artists use
There are two popular brands - I have a number of 'Platinum Preppy' pens which I like, and Brian Ramsey has also said he uses I believe.
Also LAMY are very popular - they are more premium in price, but also available very widely!
@@TobySketchLoose thanks. I was looking at Lamy. I have two rotring art pens from my calligraphy days but not sure they will work for drawing. Work in progress 😉🖊
I have been using the rotring tikky for architecture and love the variation on line width. I have moved to fountain pens for quick sketches and I have about 6 different fountain pens including the rotring artpen which has a really good flow for long quick lines. As for the ink I use the rohrer&Klinger sketch ink which is waterproof