Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pen 8 Pack Review

About five years agone when I was stocking shelves in the stationery section at my retail job, I came beyond some packets of Faber-Castell PITT Creative person Pens. I had never actually used any markers, aside from those inexpensive ones they give you in primary school, but I've always found Faber-Castell products to be of fantabulous quality, so afterward my shift finished, I went and bought the Landscape pack.

Over the following years I accumulated more than of the pens, including two more colour sets (Shades of Grey and Terra) and some outlining sets in blackness, sanguine and sepia. Though I used the black sets regularly for my manga illustrations, I never really did much with the other colours until recently.

The Black, Sanguine and Sepia packs come with a variety of tips and sizes, ranging from a tiny 0.05mm (or thereabouts) to a bolder 1mm tip. The packs besides include a brush tip pen, which is the aforementioned as the tips on all the other colours (as far as I know, all colours besides what I've already listed are merely available as brush tips). There are 48 colours in the range, which tin can be purchased in boxes of 24 or 48 or smaller packets of 6-8 like the ones I accept.

PITT Artist pens are waterproof, so they're good for pen and wash sketches where you want a bit of solid color and not but a black outline. The packet says they are also lightfast (some colours more than others), though I haven't washed whatever sort of lightfastness testing with these then I can't confirm it.

All of the packets of brush tip pens were still perfectly usable, even after sitting in my drawer for near five years. The first set of black pens I got lasted through several years of regular use until they inevitably began to run out. Unfortunately when I went to replace them, the first two packets I bought contained iv completely dried upwardly and useless pens. I got my coin back and bought another ready elsewhere a few weeks later, but had the same problem. Even when I eventually got a parcel with working pens, 2 of them stopped working inside about a calendar month, fifty-fifty though I'd had the lids on at all times and had only used them for one or ii small drawings. I'one thousand not certain if this was just bad luck or if it was to do with the style the retailers were storing them or if information technology was a quality issue with Faber-Castell'south manufacturing, but it was very frustrating and disappointing, especially because the pens aren't particularly cheap at $20-25 for the packs of iv-6.

This is a character analogy I did for the interactive narrative in my PhD projection. The outlines were drawn with a blackness PITT pen and so watercolour was used to colour them in. As y'all can come across, the black did not run or muddy the colour, which makes them excellent for illustrators. You do need to let them dry for a minute or two – if yous draw your outline and wash over it straight away, it will run a bit – only it dries a lot faster than traditional ink applied with a brush pen.

I did this fiddling landscape sketch in a few minutes, just to get a feel for what the coloured pens are like when they are used for a whole drawing rather than just outlines.

If y'all like doing any sort of analogy or sketch piece of work, y'all'll detect a utilize for these highly pigmented marking pens. Merely brand sure you lot test them either before buying or as shortly as you tin can later on ownership them so you can become your money back if they don't work, and always ensure that you clip the lids on tightly. The coloured brush tip pens are bully fun, but in terms of black manga/illustration pens, I prefer the Sakura Pigma Microns (which I volition review in a after post).

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