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Monday, January 21, 2008

Supplies

Just felt like putting up a picture of the pens and stuff I've been cartooning with lately. I ink all the characters with the brush pen. The backgrounds are done with the 512 nib and the brush pen. B-3 for the panel borders, B-5 for the balloon edges and other lines here and there, B-6 for that stuff, too. I use the Pigma Graphic 1 for the lettering, but may try switching to B-5 or B-3 for that eventually. I use the Micron 8 for fixing stuff here and there. I have a couple of brushes but only really use those for filling in blacks or applying white corrections.

That's a lead holder I got from the Colorado Art Istitute when I went there, I presume all brands are alike, mine's pretty good. I use a pretty hard lead, but I can't remember the number. It seems like it's 2H or 2B? I dunno. It comes out pretty light, erases pretty easily.

I also use a bottle of ink, right now it's Bombay brand, seems pretty good, and Pro White for white out and snazzy white on black effects, if I feel like it (i've done it once or twice only).

I really like the lines I get from the 512 nib and I've been using it all over the place on my comic strips. I really never used nibs very much, but I finally gave them a try after having one of those Speedball starter packs floating around forever. If you're scared you should try them out yourself. I still haven't gotten the hang of the Hunt 102, though.

Labels: cartooning, lettering


posted by David King @ 11:19 PM 

2 Comments:

Blogger tomN! said...

stop blathering about your supplies and draw some more DANNY DUTCH!!!

9:02 AM  
Blogger David King said...

Take it easy, dude! There's a new up up now

And you talk about your tool constantly, so shut up

7:04 PM  

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