(un)interesting art supplies story
Aug. 18th, 2004 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingandyA couple of weeks ago I went into the Skipton Art Shop to see if they had any proper-type cartooning materials. The nice lady said they were planning to get some "Manga" art tools - "Like the proper cartoonists use" - and could ring me when they came. So she rang me yesterday and I went in to see.
Yes, it was a pack of "Manga" pens, labelled as such in bright primary colours and a cartoony font. I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting - maybe something involving India ink - but the felt-tip pens were something of a surprise.
In her defence the more expensive pack did contain "marker paper" (pens will not spread) and actual screentone (stuff that gives that newspaper-print style pointllised shading) which I was vaguely interested in because I've no idea how it works (is it like a transfer, or what?). But it was not worth buying the rest of it just to find out.
So I splashed out on three different-sized fibre-tips / brush pens - which do hold India Ink, thank you very much - and a big A3 pad of "drawing paper" (just to, you know, see). I am pleased with my purchases. May even try drawing with them at some point!
That is all, I have nothing of interest to say.
Yes, it was a pack of "Manga" pens, labelled as such in bright primary colours and a cartoony font. I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting - maybe something involving India ink - but the felt-tip pens were something of a surprise.
In her defence the more expensive pack did contain "marker paper" (pens will not spread) and actual screentone (stuff that gives that newspaper-print style pointllised shading) which I was vaguely interested in because I've no idea how it works (is it like a transfer, or what?). But it was not worth buying the rest of it just to find out.
So I splashed out on three different-sized fibre-tips / brush pens - which do hold India Ink, thank you very much - and a big A3 pad of "drawing paper" (just to, you know, see). I am pleased with my purchases. May even try drawing with them at some point!
That is all, I have nothing of interest to say.
