Came across these carded sets of
Pentel Wow! retractable colored ball point pens on clearance at the local
Staples. Fifty cents for a carded set of five pens made them an easy choice for the
incentive prize pool that I use in my after school drawing classes. The pens were made in India according to the back of the card.
Initial doodle tests on a piece of card stock. Personally I find the purple more effective given its hue and contrast while the pink and green just do not do it for me (guess a
pink pen is just hard to pull off for a guy). I would have preferred a warmer green, but I guess that it would also make it less legible.
A few ninja doodles drawn on
Hammermill Copy Plus 20 lb paper. Found that these pens required greater pressure to lay down their line strokes while sketching, but their ball points tips still skipped a bit resulting in a messier appearance. The greater force applied to the pens also caused the thin paper to curl at the corners. On the plus side, the triangular barrel grip makes it quite comfortable to hold for long writing sessions.
This close up shot reminded me of why I seldom grab or use a ball point pen. Their thicker ink tends to clump into ugly blobs from time to time and the ball point actually skips at my regular sketching speed unlike gel pens or liquid ink pens. Keeping in mind that they are value-priced writing instruments first, I was just curious to test their performance as sketching tools.
They certainly would not be my first choice for doodling given their tendency to skip and to produce random ink blobs. While the
Pentel Wow! BK440 ballpoint pens might be adequate writing tools and capable of some light sketching duty in a pinch, they are all going straight to my bag of classroom prizes. They work fine for note-taking, and the kids will probably enjoy their off-beat colors (well at least the girls might).
Came across these carded sets of Pentel Wow! retractable colored ball point pens on clearance at the local Staples. Fifty cents for a carded set of five pens made them an easy choice for the incentive prize pool that I use in my after school drawing classes. The pens were made in India according to the back of the card.
Initial doodle tests on a piece of card stock. Personally I find the purple more effective given its hue and contrast while the pink and green just do not do it for me (guess a pink pen is just hard to pull off for a guy). I would have preferred a warmer green, but I guess that it would also make it less legible.
A few ninja doodles drawn on Hammermill Copy Plus 20 lb paper. Found that these pens required greater pressure to lay down their line strokes while sketching, but their ball points tips still skipped a bit resulting in a messier appearance. The greater force applied to the pens also caused the thin paper to curl at the corners. On the plus side, the triangular barrel grip makes it quite comfortable to hold for long writing sessions.
This close up shot reminded me of why I seldom grab or use a ball point pen. Their thicker ink tends to clump into ugly blobs from time to time and the ball point actually skips at my regular sketching speed unlike gel pens or liquid ink pens. Keeping in mind that they are value-priced writing instruments first, I was just curious to test their performance as sketching tools.
They certainly would not be my first choice for doodling given their tendency to skip and to produce random ink blobs. While the Pentel Wow! BK440 ballpoint pens might be adequate writing tools and capable of some light sketching duty in a pinch, they are all going straight to my bag of classroom prizes. They work fine for note-taking, and the kids will probably enjoy their off-beat colors (well at least the girls might).
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