After millenia of conflict the rat and cat peoples have finally come to terms . . . total enslavement of the cat people!!! [evil laugh]
Sorry if you like cats ;)
It looks very dramatic! What did you use to make this, especially the dark background?
Thanks. I drew it first with mechanical pencil and did a small amount of hatching for shading; then I filled in the background and dark shadows with the Pentel Colour Brush Pen (filled with Noodler's Black fountain pen ink). I did increase the contrast a bit digitally to really make it pop :)
A lot of my students use these. The last time I used them was when I was in high school, and at the time I felt that they dried out pretty quickly, though I may have simply been mishandling them. As with all pens, make sure you're capping them when they're not in use, and try not to apply too much pressure. You really only need to be touching the page, not mashing your pen into it.
On the flipside, they tend to be on the cheaper side of things, so if you're just getting started (beginners tend to have poor pressure control), you're probably going to destroy a few pens - going cheaper in that case is not a bad idea.
In terms of line weight, the sizes are pretty weird. 08 corresponds to 0.5mm, which is what I recommend for the drawabox lessons, whereas 05 corresponds to 0.45mm, which is pretty close and can also be used.
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