On a whim picked up an
Uniball Signo 207 retractable gel pen on sale at the
Staples check out register yesterday. Found it a tad odd that I never got around trying this gel pen before considering that they seem to be readily available everywhere in the USA.
Quick doodle and writing test on a
Rhodia pad.
The smooth gel ink performance allowed for quick sketching, and I expected that its advertised fraud-resistant ink formulation would make it suitable for coloring with wet media like
Sakura Koi watercolors. Yet given the pen medium size tip, the ink went down thicker in some areas taking longer to dry. Thus there was some light smudging on the yellow parts of the helmet and arms of the shortest alien.
The
Uniball Signo 207 retractable gel pen makes for an easy-to-find sketching tool that works adequately with watercolors so long as the gel ink sketches are allowed enough time to dry completely. Quite an efficient writing tool as well.
In case you were wondering about the source of inspiration for this test sketch, it was the
Clone Wars Embo action figure. While I have pretty much stopped collecting them of late, a highly detailed alien bounty hunter wearing an Asian cone hat
and wielding kunai knives is not something I could pass up.
On a whim picked up an Uniball Signo 207 retractable gel pen on sale at the Staples check out register yesterday. Found it a tad odd that I never got around trying this gel pen before considering that they seem to be readily available everywhere in the USA.
Quick doodle and writing test on a Rhodia pad.
The smooth gel ink performance allowed for quick sketching, and I expected that its advertised fraud-resistant ink formulation would make it suitable for coloring with wet media like Sakura Koi watercolors. Yet given the pen medium size tip, the ink went down thicker in some areas taking longer to dry. Thus there was some light smudging on the yellow parts of the helmet and arms of the shortest alien.
The Uniball Signo 207 retractable gel pen makes for an easy-to-find sketching tool that works adequately with watercolors so long as the gel ink sketches are allowed enough time to dry completely. Quite an efficient writing tool as well.
In case you were wondering about the source of inspiration for this test sketch, it was the Clone Wars Embo action figure. While I have pretty much stopped collecting them of late, a highly detailed alien bounty hunter wearing an Asian cone hat and wielding kunai knives is not something I could pass up.
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2 comments:
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
So true, thanks for the beautiful comment.
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