Doesn't anyone use pens for their artwork? Or do you prefer other types of media?

Not my art, but a friend of mine:

http://www.shadowscapes.com/gal_BWART.php

Look for the FoxFae series and the others in that sub-category. I'm pretty sure those are Hi-Tec-Cs.

Those are really good! I really admire people who can do fantasy art. My favorite area is realism, but maybe that's because I just don't have the creativity for fantasy. :P

woo those look so beautiful, cant get any prints of those huh?? i like "good monkey!" too

i used to draw trees and landscape with the hi-tec-c, but i lost the stack of pictures, but they weren't that great either, so o well.

Ah, finally found my incomplete tree drawing! This one im pretty proud of, done on a 8"hx11"w printer paper on a 3 hr plane ride to philly 2 years ago. What im disappointed at is that i didnt really stick to one style, abstract vs. more detailed. I can't draw like this anymore....my drawing skills are getting stale, but tell me what you think...

Oh yeah, this is done solely with blue black 0.3 hi-tec-c, i was thinking giving it some other shades of blue later on but, i deno if im ever gonna finish this.

That's a great drawing! Did you have a reference, or was it from your imagination?

My imagination. I think i got urges to draw trees when i was learning about plant growth in biology. I just love how branches branch out in random directions, so thats probably why my trees dont have much leaves, but maybe i can add some cherry blossoms, even though that isn;t a cherry blosom tree... infact i dont even know what kind of tree it is.

Here's another tree, Drawn first with Signo Broad Silver, then detailed with Sakura Pigma Micron-005 (Black - 0.20 mm). On a 3x5 index card.

The silver pigment has properties that makes it hard to draw over, but if you get enough black pigment on top, it gets absorbed and makes a darker gunmetal look. Also silver rubs off if you rub hard enough. and that black ink is more absorbent so it kind of feathers around the silver.




One neat thing is that the tree looks different with different angles of light. The overlapping of black and siver becomes almost invisible some angles, and very apparent others.

Nice drawings!!! You're a genius! I cannot ever draw a house for that matter. I'm not an artist. I use pens for writing & I think I have nice handwriting, but drawing? Forget it.

Hey Dudley, what do you think of the other white pens that are posted up on JP? Do they work as well as the broad? Seems like the broad is the most popular...

i once has a sakura white gel pen, that worked well too. If memory serves me correctly, i think the sakura's pigment is a little thicker than the signo broad.

The signo feels a little wet to me when i write. that may be a good or bad thing. (bad thing is that it makes a pool where the tip leaves the paper, good thing is that it doesnt rub off easily when it does actually dry). It also has a semi-glossy finish when it dries (sorta like whiteout). My main concern is that when you overlap lines that are still drying, for they may build up/clump up and look/feel chalky on paper, sorta like white out too.

Oh yeah, dont use the whitepens as whiteout for other gel pens, it will absorb the pigment underneath and makes a pastel paste. For ballpoints, it works okay, but still a little transparent, but why waste a pen?

...yeah i play with pens too much...

I have no clue with the pentel, it might be better than both, or somewhere in between?? maybe jetpens should have a swatch of them on black paper and possibly tell us how they are when they dry on paper..like matte or shiny finish?

Yup, writing with a white out pen would make more sense. I'm thinking Zebra Kestick correction pen would do the trick.

Didn't know there were so many characteristics to look for in a white gel pen! My untrained eye can't distinguish which is better...

Your sketches are amazing!

I love using my Pentel Milky white gel pen. I guess it's stupid... I write a word, then I write on top of it... and so on until it's raised. :roll: I should get some more... :roll:

Well technically this would be a JetPencil :D

http://sunblindness.net/edolphy.jpg

I used the Pentel Graph 1000 .07 mechanical pencil for this portrait of the free jazz saxophonist/flautist, Eric Dolphy.
I've been using these pencils for about 5 years. They're really excellent and I remember posting on the Jetpens blog suggesting them and I'm glad they've got them on sale now. Going to try those new Graph Gear pencils soon too.

Happy pen-ning everyone.

that's a pretty good sketch, got more??