Pens, check out my pens.

Yeah, I have been trying out new pens, exciting stuff I know, but if you don't you won't no what you are missing.

1) Uniball Eye Fine 0.7 really smooth in good for writing and drawing, covers areas of black really quickly and smoothly.

2) Berol Fine good for rough sketches doesn't seem to be consistent size. 

The Broad version of this is good for larger areas of black on the go and not very expensive, which is a good thing.

3) Berol Handwriting, it's, ok but I don't really do "handwriting", so I don't really know what I am looking for in a pen.

4) Rotring Tikky Graphic Pen I have these in 0.3, 0.5. 0.7 and they are amazing, I will do the smaller detail lines with the 0.3 and the edge lines with the 0.7. I will eventually get all the sizes of these pens.

5) Gelly Roll White pen it is really good for writing on black paper but bit of a let down when trying to draw over black ink (just ends up grey). I think I will try white acrylic paint in the future to do white over black ink for things like lightning and smoke.

6) Tesco "generic" mechanical pencils, great and super cheap. Don't draw too hard with them as they will snap the lead and you won't be able to erase them with the eraser provided. No sharpner so easy to use on the go.

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7) A Muji 0.5mm for writing. I love Muji pens.

8) Uniball Eye Needle 0.3mm for inking, not for parallel lines thoughas it dries too slow and smudges.

9) Staedtler Pigment liner 0.3mm for inking, which is lovely super black.

10) Staedtler Triplus Fibretip Color (Black or Blue, they both come out black in the scanner).

Covers a large area fast when you can't use a brush.

11) Staedtler Noris School Pencil and the Staedtler Mars Plastic works well to remove pencil. These are the only non-mechanical pencils I ever use.

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12) I have ben using Windsor & Newton black ink and it is lovely, I used it with both the Windsor & Newton Red Sable / Synthetic Sceptre Gold II Size 2 as well as a range of generic brushes I haven't really noticed a difference yet except the cheap ones loose their shape a lot quicker.

13) Staedtler Triplus Black, this is what I use for a lot of really fine lines it is a 0.3 but I would say it is a little smaller than that. The are great as they are widely available in singles and in black.

14) Is a Stabilo Touchscreen pen it works, not a precise at I would like but it does work allowing me to draw rough sketches on the iPad.

In Summary

I think in the future I will just stick to Rotring Tikky Graphic pens (yeah they are the most expensive pens out there) or the Staedtler Triplus and Fibretip (sadly I can't find the Fibretip in black separately), but they are both fantastic for illustration.

I also think I may also move more towards the digital (as everything I make is digital anyway) with a nice big WACOM tablet for drawing when I can save my pennies, who knows.