Urban Sketching - Which Pen is Best? Here are my Reviews on 5 Different Brands!

[@karenfox9982]

Thanks for sharing, I use steadtler a lot was nice to see the difference🙂

[@TobySketchLoose]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tavenchristensen3157]

THANKYOU for the info on these drawing brands.

[@TobySketchLoose]

My pleasure!

[@Baldridge12]

I have used unipin in various colours. Have Faber Castell sepia. Wondering about fountain pen which some artists use

[@TobySketchLoose]

There are two popular brands - I have a number of 'Platinum Preppy' pens which I like, and Brian Ramsey has also said he uses I believe. Also LAMY are very popular - they are more premium in price, but also available very widely!

[@Baldridge12]

@@TobySketchLoose thanks. I was looking at Lamy. I have two rotring art pens from my calligraphy days but not sure they will work for drawing. Work in progress 😉🖊

[@Singh19able]

I have been using the rotring tikky for architecture and love the variation on line width. I have moved to fountain pens for quick sketches and I have about 6 different fountain pens including the rotring artpen which has a really good flow for long quick lines. As for the ink I use the rohrer&Klinger sketch ink which is waterproof

[@Peakan]

One of the main problems I have is when using the thinner markers! The tip either breaks, or just starts going into the marker making it unusable! I have been using the 0.05mm staedler , for like 4 months now and the tip is almost gone!

[@TobySketchLoose]

I'm amazed you lasted 4 months with it! Yes the tips go rather quickly, especially on watercolour paper

[@Peakan]

@@TobySketchLoose yes! This is unfortunately the case. In your experience do most thin markers run out quickly?

[@TobySketchLoose]

@@Peakan they tend not to run out, so much as stop working because I damage the nibs!