Your Trusted Guide to Essential Study Equipment
Somewhere between “I fancy trying hand lettering” and “why does my ink look like a crime scene” sits almost every beginner’s first fortnight with a brush pen. It’s a rite of passage. You open the packet, uncap something that promises Instagram-worthy swoops and swashes, press down exactly the way the tutorial did, and out comes … Read more
Somewhere between a fountain pen and a paintbrush sits a strange little tool that has quietly taken over stationery drawers across Britain: brush pens for lettering are felt or nylon-tipped pens with a flexible nib that thickens on the downstroke and thins on the upstroke, mimicking the strokes of traditional calligraphy without the mess of … Read more
Walk into any art shop’s marker aisle and you’ll notice something odd: the little grey-barrelled pens cost roughly the same as a decent meal out, and somehow that hasn’t stopped them becoming the industry standard for illustrators worldwide. A Copic markers starter set is a curated collection of Copic’s Japanese-made alcohol-based art markers, sold in … Read more