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Had to pick between a fine tip and a brush pen for my lunch break doodle
I was sitting in my car with 15 minutes to kill, and I had two pens in my bag. The fine tip is my usual go-to for clean lines, but I grabbed the brush pen to try something different. Big mistake. The brush pen bled through three pages of my sketchbook and turned my quick crow doodle into a wet blob. Now I'm stuck with a ruined page and a lesson learned. Anyone else stick to one tool and regret testing the other?
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the_alice2mo ago
Double down on what rosebarnes said about scrap paper. I keep a stack of old receipts and junk mail in my glovebox specifically for pen tests now. The brush pen thing is legit a different skill set too, you have to hold it almost vertical and go fast or the ink pools. I ruined a whole spread of quick gesture sketches once trying to switch mid-page and learned the hard way. Now I treat new pens like dating, never commit on the first try.
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rosebarnes3mo ago
Big mistake"? A wet blob? Ruined page? Come on now, it's a lunch break doodle, not a gallery submission. I get that it's annoying when a pen bleeds through, but three pages is honestly not that bad. You can still use the other side of those pages for practice sketches or just doodle over it later. Brush pens are a whole different beast, they take practice to control. If you'd never tried one before, expecting it to act like a fine tip is setting yourself up. Maybe just test new tools on scrap paper next time instead of in your main sketchbook. It's not like you lost a masterpiece or anything, it's a quick crow you drew in a car.
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susan1303mo ago
My cousin once painted a whole garage door orange before realizing it was the wrong house.
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