have you ever wondered which pens i think are the best for students? well in my new youtube video i have shared all of my thoughts on 11 different pens! ps the links for all the pens are in the video caption!
Late night swatch fest with the @vivivacolors watercolors (Original and Spring sets). So gorgeous! Other supplies: @fabercastellglobal water brush @uniballco mechanical pencil From @artsnacks monthly box @moleskine watercolor album pocket size Kearing grid ruler ... www.gemmageluz.etsy.com www.gemmageluz.etsy.com Patreon.com/GemmaGeluzDesigns #GemmaGeluzDesigns #latenight #painting #swatching #swatches #vivivacolors #watercolors #moleskine #fabercastell #uniball #artsnacks #ruler #imadethis https://www.instagram.com/p/CmD4rb3u26E/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
A few on-sites for @louisvuitton earlier this summer… thank you @mele.vuitton for the video (check out her profile, her work is so cool!) I love these activation events, the clients were sooooo cute composing special messages for me to write for Father’s Day! Also love that for this lettering style all I need to bring is a #micronpen or #uniball and a white #gellyroll - neat, clean, no huge bag of art supplies swipe for a #bathroomselfie at the end 🙃 (at Louis Vuitton) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch25ML3pnH5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
I still can't believe that - from my meager sample of two (2) Artline metalic marker pens (a gold and a copper) that *neither* worked on black paper as their metalic forms and both looked awfully silver. The copper did, however, work properly on the white paper. I didn't think to test the gold, I just thought it was a pissy little champagne gold instead of the usual /mustard/ (and here's me wanting something warmer), but no.
I'm like 80% sure that these have got to be a silver base with coloured pigment thrown in. This is how we get metallic inks with the pantone system - most of the coloured metallics are silver plus another pantone. The only real exception iirc is base metallics like golds, copper and silver.
But no. Apparently that rule of thumb doesn't apply to Artline gold.
Whoops.
(My search for a Good Gold is still very dismal, I think the closest to a 'warm gold' I found today was actually - surprisingly - the Sharpie metallic gold. Even the POSCA gold, while not /quite/ as dark and mustardy as many others [see metallic gell pens like the Uniball Signo for example], was still a little yellow-green rather than the orange-yellow I'm hunting for.)
the uniball air definitely takes some getting used to, and at first it seems like it skips a lot and doesnt have a good ink flow, but the more you use it, the smoother it writes. if you're writing at an acute angle, the ink flow is super thick, but when writing closer to a right angle to the paper the flow is much thinner. it writes very smoothly all things considered, and im surprised that the ink doesnt bleed through the page more than it does. its a very weird ink, and depending on the paper you're writing on it almost seems like it dries gray. it sort of feels like writing with a super fine crayon because it doesn't have a ball point-- here are my overall scores:
ink: 8/10
uniformity: 4/10
body: 5/10 (point lost for having a cap, point lost for not having a grip)
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Gotta get my butt into gear. Deadline for this completion is Friday, ready to hit ComicCon on Saturday morning...eeekkk!!! #poscaart #poscapens #poscauk #poscamarkers #uniball @uniball_uk @posca_uk #undertale #sans #killersans #undertalesans #undertaleart #undertalefanart #undertalefans (at Th3lockdowncomicbookcompany Hq) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cktu-cFDURW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=