10 simple ways to use a Tombow brush pen in your bullet journal for the first time as a beginner

[@BikeRunYoga]

Thanks for the left handed tutorial! So hard to find left handed videos to watch. As a lefty, I find it super hard to do calligraphy without damaging the tips.

[@ArcherandOlive]

So glad we could help!

[@ta2mscribbles]

Lefty here as well!!! 🙋🙋

[@CheDeco15]

This was such an incredibly helpful, inspiring, and easy to understand video! Thanks for taking some of the anxiety out of using these tools! 💜

[@LyndaJane]

I have a set of primaries that I was gifted by my hubby, this has been so very helpful Mark - thank you 😊

[@ArcherandOlive]

Excellent! So glad it could help!

[@ArtemisNYC]

Hands down the best Tombow tutorial I've ever seen. Thanks for putting so many useful tips all together in one video. I had a bunch of them in undergraduate school when I was studying costume design- they were great for rendering clothing and blended like a dream. But I confess I was having a hard time trying to translate the medium into bullet journaling, so this helped tons!

[@ArcherandOlive]

So glad this video was helpful!

[@Ana_Scapula]

This is amazing! Thank you a lot! ❤

[@ArcherandOlive]

You're welcome 😊

[@JuliannaKahn]

Thanks so much for this excellent tutorial. I think it's the best I've ever seen on how to use Tombow's.

[@ArcherandOlive]

Oh thats wonderful to hear thank you!

[@DAYbreaking_Ideas]

Just got my first ones. Learning the difference between these and watercolor brush pens

[@awakenedheartroom]

this really helped me. The up and down strokes. I didn't think I was able to do this lettering with these markers. But now I can after your tutorial. Thanks a million!

[@ArcherandOlive]

So happy to hear that!

[@BlueSpiritArt]

I just got a set of these pens. I searched around on the internet to find out how to use them and ended up here. This video was very helpful. Thank you!

[@ArcherandOlive]

Really glad it was helpful!

[@rosettagalindo574]

Mark you are awesome!! I love Archer and Olive and Tombows together but the Acrylograph pens are awesome too. If possible could you do a video on how to blend using the Acrylograph pens? The way I am trying is not working for me lol.

[@ArcherandOlive]

Absolutely - check out the video here :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGqaYpRnn9Fslck

[@ta2mscribbles]

Lefty represent!!🙋 I actually bought my first Tombow set recently and im getting the hang of it.... There are letters that i find it hard to have that upward and downward strokes though..... Im afraid to press down hard as it might fray the brush but the way he writes the downward strokes seemed pretty pressed hard.... I guess its okay.... 😊

[@ArcherandOlive]

The tips are made to take the pressure! :) Test it out and tell us how you go!

[@ecleARTia]

thank you! this is very helpful

[@ArcherandOlive]

Glad it was helpful!

[@UJB123]

A few years late but thank you. An additional thank you for using a light and a dark of different colors for the blending example.

[@ArcherandOlive]

Glad it was helpful!

[@zoex7993]

This was extraordinarily helpful. Thank you!

[@ArcherandOlive]

Glad it was helpful!

[@davidbgreensmith]

Great to see a lefty tutorial.

[@ArcherandOlive]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tdoesart_]

I got a rlly big set of these for Christmas last year and oof was it hard! Tysm for this

[@namrataabhavani2897]

Great Video Archer&Olive!!! I am planning to start bujo this soon (2021) and this was very helpful :D

[@ArcherandOlive]

Awesome!

[@kristichamblin1833]

Love Tombow brush pens! I use both water-based and ABT

[@amnanavas6808]

Oh...nice video!!!

[@ArcherandOlive]

Thank you!

[@Sanfransweety]

Bless your heart! Fellow leftie here almost threw in the towel felt so defeated words didn't look like ads lol! Purchased in order to personalize and distinguish essential tasks in my planner. Writer not an artist- but just bought calligraphy begginer book. Going to practice before committing pen to paper in my franklin planner.

[@ArcherandOlive]

Hope you have fun practicing!!

[@awakenedheartroom]

Thank you! This was SO helpful!

[@katehirst6046]

Thank you for this video❤

[@ArcherandOlive]

You are so welcome!

[@kikicucci1910]

Awesome, very helpful video!

[@ArcherandOlive]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nancyroberts1720]

Really helpful tutorial...thank you!

[@ArcherandOlive]

Glad it was helpful!

[@vicnic9749]

What angle do you use to make your brush on calligraphy thick? Mine end up being too close of a similar stroke instead of showing a constrast

[@ArcherandOlive]

Holding the pen with a slight angle can help but the most important part is adding ore pressure for the downstrokes to make it thicker!

[@namrataabhavani2897]

Plus I'm the first Comment ;)

[@ArcherandOlive]

Exciting!!

[@ruthannalston]

When I use them tombow pens, I can always see the connecting strokes especially when I use any color besides black. how do u keep the “connections” in your strokes from being so noticeable?

[@ArcherandOlive]

You can easily use a really small amount of water to blend the areas on the strokes you are unhappy with!

[@macnacailli]

Suggestion: Tips and tricks for lefties 😁

[@ArcherandOlive]

Love this idea! 💕

[@cutandpaste]

Video is nice...But I don't have money to buy any of your products...Really love to have a BuJo of my own,,,But I couldn't

[@ArcherandOlive]

Totally understandable! We have a sale on at the moment :) And you are more than welcome to use Marks discount code for 10% off your order! :)

[@purplepaisleypassion]

All you need to get started is a notebook from the Dollar Store, and a pen. Then perhaps down the road you might be able to afford more expanded products, such as A&O journals or Tombows.

[@bunnybeetle1304]

a black pen, a fancy highlighter in pink or blue or some other not too dark color, and a notebook, and you’re good to go. my first one was my old notepad. ripped off some pages, and it was an empty notebook again! you can fake calligraphy with a black pen.

[@mildredsparks6684]

Which bright spark picked a lefthanded person to do this demo. His hand covers up what he draws.

[@ArcherandOlive]

There are many left handed journalers and this is a great help for them 💕

[@hayleygasm]

If you …. *Wait for it* …. WAIT, then you will without issue see what he writes*

[@hayleygasm]

Lefty (with the word ‘Tuesday’ written on her thigh lmao) thanks for this.