mini post on brush crap

uhhh so here's what happened my tablet pen literally fell into an abyss and it was gone for like a week or so and so i did a lot(? subjective) of drawing on paper with my brush pen. BUT. that brush pen was dying and shitty and then it actually died. but now the tablet pen is back!

AND i ordered a pentel pocket brush pen and let me tell you it is AWWWESOMEEEE! here's my comparison:

SAKURA MICRON BRUSH PEN $2.00 or something

• Felt tipped so not actually a "brush" per se but does offer variations in line width

• due to this, it frayed pretty easily and caused a "double-line" effect which is cool if that's what you're going for stylistically but horrible if you want to do fine linework

• sakura ink is really shitty!! all my micron drawings fade when i erase them or fade after like a month or whatever. they don't "sink" into the paper at all, no matter what the texture or weight

PENTEL POCKET BRUSH PEN $doesn't matter buy it

• is a gift from god

• has actual bristles!! this is really cool and you run absolutely no worry of straining the tip like you would with a felt pen. it has very fast "bounce back" in that it reverts back to its brush shape fast and seamlessly

• the default catridge ink is much, much better than the microns and while not the darkest or thickest you could get from ink (See: speedball ink) it does not fade when erased and dries at a good rate

• can still produce the same dry brush effect if you make fast strokes, obviously not as true to life as an actual dry brush but pretty good for sketching purposes

• no problem with super fine lines and super thick lines which is super important to me

so yeah that's my spiel on brush pens. in the mean time i've been studying screenplay writing and dabbling in "making comics" by scoot mccooch to get a better understanding of how to develop plots and characters. pretty cool stuff