Friday
May202011
The Great Doodle Pen Review
Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:38PM Welcome to the Great Doodle Pen Review
This is a massive test of all of the types of markers I could find in our house... for drawing doodles and mandalas. I've drawn lines with pens and markers that I found around the house... I hope you can see some of the differences? The thickness of the lines, the consistency of the line (does it have gobs of ink in places?), the bleed, feathering, etc. This test is on watercolor paper.
{the great doodle pen review is now closed, thanks!}
Reader Comments (5)
What a fabulous example of creativity and usefulness!!! Only YOU could be so darn clever, Tammy, with a great lesson! Hugs, Terri xoxo
Those colors are amazing! Very very creative. For some reason your drawing takes me back to my childhood. I always loved bright colors and that's perhaps why I prefer bright, saturated inks for my fountain pens.
This is a wonderful idea. It'll be my Sunday project, and then I'll post it. Hope others bother to do it.
Such fun! I must be on your wavelength, Tammy, as I've been messing around all this week with different pens. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sampler1000/5745307303/in/photostream
I love all my pens, but I think my Sharpies come in at no. 1 followed closely by Copics. I love line work using the gelly rolls/glaze pens, but I'm not very good when it comes to using them for blocks of colour.
Love the striped triangles you drew!!!!
Terri, You are the queen of cleverness, my dear, in your gorgeous calendars and dolls! Thank you for a smile today!
Peninkcillin, Thank you for stopping by, and for your kind words! I love children's artwork too, so free and playful and bright. Even if I try to use pastels or calm colors I wind up with saturated color.
Leslie, Thank you for being the first official entrant in The Great Doodle Pen Review, and for using the Linky Tool. I popped over to your blog and explored your massively cool pen review with great interest. I definitely want to try the Pentel needletip and the Pilot G2. And you've reminded me that I have a set of markers in my sewing room that I didn't test!
Sam, I just checked out your Pen Review on flickr and it's actually funny that Sharpie extra fine point is not all that extra fine! The Sharpies definitely give saturated color, but on watercolor paper they tend to bleed. My daughters love the extra fine sharpies for drawing mandalas. And I've got to try the Copics. they look lovely. The funny thing about that triangle doodle is that it's been sitting in my just-finished moleskine for months and I didn't know what to do with it or how to expand it as a mandala. So it worked perfectly for the test!
Thanks for playing along!
Tammy