material question to el coro

[gekitsu]

hey mr. kaufmann, i want to ask you for a more detailed list of materials you use.
in threads about art, one can only exchange a few words about it, letting a lot about it to be said.

so far, we know your love for tria inks and brush pens. now what interests me (and probably a lot more people) is:
what brush pen exactly? where to buy? expensive?
and so on...

also, a few words about material you use and WHY you use them would be neat.

concluding, let me say, i dig your work. i clicked through every thread sitting there, stunned, inspired, frightened, crazy :)
the b/w works (have a bit of the air of yoji shinkawa's work) i love the most. i love to ink myself but do that too seldom. as i ink with brushes only, i'd be especially interested in brush pens.

thank you for your time

[nick reynolds]

I went to Michaels the other night and picked up a brush pen by the name of LePlume. It was 1.50$ and it works very well, I even did water colors over my ink and it didnt smear at all. I was amazed beyond belief. Also I went to Binders and got a Tombo pen i think it was 2$ its a little smooth in its quality. Im not sure how waterproof it is yet though. I would assume the same as the other pen. I also got a white gelly roll pen that works well for highlights and covering up bad inking.

If your a beginer like me... Does it matter what kind of tools you get? Quality wise it doesnt matter to me yet. I bought some cheap water colors because Im not used to them. I could have bought the 9$ a tube ones but that would have been a waste seeing as i wouldnt get the fully potential out of it. Also im a broke student so 9$ a tube is outrageous.

Grab some prismas, ink pens, paints, and start practing.


Ignore all my spelling and gramatical errors. I just woke up. =)

[el coro]

gekitsu: i use a few different brush pens, all japanese, all kind of expensive. the main one i use the most is calles a kaimei brush pen, it is a sable brush and is refillable. they cost about 60 dollars american, but they are well worth it. trust me, i've tried just about every brush pen you could imagine, and this is hands down the BEST. they last for years and the ink is of the best quality. i also use various larger cheaper ones, and for these im not really brand specific, it just has to be a brush. i dislike the tombo pens because they arent true brushes and because the ink sucks ass. as far as materials go, i dont really spare any expense. the tools do makea difference.and the more expensive something is, chances are it really is of the finest quality. especially with inks and colored media. you dont want to be fighting the materals on top of trying to create a piece of art you are happy with....my 2 cents

[gekitsu]

thank you two for the instant replies :)

coro: yeah, i encountered that too: expense often pays and quality always had its price.
the question is if one needs the quality. for sure, i didn't need quality when i first tried inking with brushes but over time, one begins to notice why the more expensive brush is more expensive.

thanks for the tip about kaimei. i'll explore the art shops around here for a cheap one first and if i love it, i'll go for one of those.
hope, they are available around here. i even had to ask a fiend in the us for shipping me a pack of colerase pencils...

[StephenC]

wondering...what exactly is a brush pen, that is how is it different from a regular ball point or such, and how do you use it?

[gekitsu]

imagine it like a mixture between an inkpen and a brush: it has a brush tip but doesn't need to be tipped in ink regularly as it has an ink depot like inking pens and such.

edit:

coro, (or anyone else)
i have some further questions regarding the kaimei brush pen:

is it weasel hair or sable?

do you have problems with the ink being not waterproof? or is that why you work with tria inks over your linework?

thank you