Cheeeeap brush pens

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I discovered last night that my Pentel Color Brush had fallen out of my pocket at some point in the past couple days. I’m hoping it’s on the floor at the office waiting for me on Monday, but I stopped off at Hudson County Art Supply anyway, just to see if they’d decided on a price for the things.

They had. Five bucks each.

That’s both for the Pentel Color Brush (which I haven’t seen anyplace else for less than $8) and the Pentel Pocket Brush (ditto, but not less than $18, though that’s with four refill cartridges, and this only comes with two, but still). So come on all you NYC cartoonists, it’s just a $1.50 PATH trip and a five-minute walk away.

I picked up another Color Brush ’cause at these prices, what the heck, and I like fiddling around with those grainy fibrous lines, but the Pocket Brush has become my favorite marking tool of late. It’s what I used for those two sketches below, but the tower to the left (done at Worldcon) was done with a Pigma Micron 005 super-finepoint.