Lately in the haul videos where I've showed off my new journaling supplies,
I've been getting more and more requests to write out some test swatches in a
separate video. So today, I thought I would do that with some of my favorite
pens, markers, and highlighters at the moment. These have been my go-tos in my
traveler's notebooks and bullet journal lately so if you're looking to expand
your collection of writing utensils, I hope this is interesting and helpful to
you! All right so the paper that I'm using today is a Webster's pages
travelers notebook and it's lined. I don't use the lined one super often so I
figured that this would be a good opportunity to use it. So I'm going to go
through a bunch of the different pens that I love and then I use most often
and I'm going to test them out for you and then maybe that'll help you if
you're deciding which pens to buy! So starting out right at the top, this is
the pen that I use most often. It is the uniball signo, it's the 0.38 tip, it's
very very fine. I really like it. I use it for bullet journaling and for travelers
notebook journaling and any time I need a really fine line, I always end up going
back to this one. It's lasted me a pretty long time so far and I am really happy
with it and I actually got it in a bunch of different colors. I'm not sure what
the colors are called because a lot of this is in Japanese, but I will test them
out for you anyway. There's this really lovely red burgundy
wine color, also in the point 38 tip. I'm just going to call it wine. And then I've
got this blue one as well. Now even though these are all the point three
eight tip I feel like the red one is a little bit thicke,r it ends up coming out
a little thicker than the others, the blue seems like the thinnest to me when
I'm writing with it, I don't know why that is.
I've also tested this juice up pen, it's the 04 tip, and I really like this one
as well! I've been using the uniball signo more often than I use the juice up,
but I still like it. I feel like the ink isn't as black as it is in the Uni-Ball Signo
but it's pretty nice. As you can see here, it blipped a little bit but I
think it's pretty okay! I think it's a good backup if my uniball signo runs out of
ink and I have to wait for some new ones to come in the mail. And if I don't need
a really fine tip just for regular writing around the
house, shopping lists, things like that, I tend to go for the pilot g2 in the 07
tip and these are really easy to find and they're really inexpensive so I just
have a lot of them around the house. Maybe that'll also give you an idea of
just how thin those first three pens were. So now I'm going to test out some
of my felt tip pens. I tend to only really use these for more artistic
things like inking drawings and maybe for my travel journals as well if I want
it to look a little bit messier. I really like the neat look of the gel pens but
felt-tip pens can be really great for other things as well. Before tombow sent
me these, I actually was mostly using the micron which is very popular, I see a
lot of artists using them, but I found that these kind of ran out of ink really
quickly, they looked okay for a while, but it's just annoying for me to have to
keep buying more pens. So I've been really happy with the tombow mono
drawing pens and I am going to test them out for you. These came in a pack with
three different sizes and I use them all for different things really but I like
them quite a bit. So this first one is the 01 size, it's really really nice
and thin, the tip is super fine but it also doesn't feel like it's gonna break
off the end of the pen so I found that it's pretty sturdy in that regard and
now I'm going to show you the 03 size just for comparison. So as you can see
that's quite a bit thicker and then the same thing happens when you go up to the
05, this is a bigger one and I think I've had a pretty similar experience to
a lot of people who write and draw with pen on paper very often, which is that my
handwriting looks a lot neater when the pen is really fine and so I tend to
write with the finer ones more often but sometimes if I'm doing some lettering or
something that requires me to have a larger thicker line, I'll go for that
five. I don't really use it very often compared to the other two. And then this
is a brush pen that I use pretty often, it's a prismacolor premier brush pen.
It came in a pack of a bunch of different felt tip pens and this was my first kind
of foray into brush lettering. I tend to do the fake brush lettering more than
the real stuff but I've been enjoying learning how to write with this and I'm
not super great at it yet, but I'm getting practice. I've been enjoying this
like kind of frilly looking capitals, but I do like
the look of them and I like that you can get a fair amount of line variation
between the thin lines and the thick lines and I hope to practice that more
so that it looks better over time. It's also really hard to write with this on
such a small line, I feel like it looks better when I write a little bit bigger.
In case you want a comparison with the pigma microns, these are great but like I
said, I felt like they ran of ink a lot quicker than the tombows. So now that
I'm kind of comparing these side-by-side, I feel like I like the look of the
micron a little bit better than the tombows. The tombow looks a little messier
when I'm writing with it, so maybe I will end up giving those microns a second
chance. They look a lot cleaner and crisper in their lines and even a little
bit darker with the black ink and also these were the ones that seemed like
they were running out of ink so maybe they weren't. Maybe they're just a little
less consistent. But it's turning out that this is actually a helpful exercise
for me as well! So my next category is metallic and
sparkly gel pens and I don't have very many of these I don't use them super
often, but it's nice to have a little bit of color and detail when I'm doing a
more artistic journaling style. I picked out this broad uniball signo in a
metallic gold and I thought that it would be kind of fun to add a little
metallic gold element to some of my journaling and so I'm going to test this
out. And I really like the way that this gold comes out, it's nice and metallic,
it's got a little bit of shimmer, it's mostly just shiny and it's not too
yellow, it's like a good gold, I feel like. One problem that I do have with this pen
is that if I don't use it for a while, it comes out orange and so I kind of have
to scribble it onto a scrap piece of paper first. So here's kind of an example
of that; this is what I had to scribble before I tested it out just now. It came
out kind of a very dark orange and then slowly changed into the gold that I
know and love. So I feel like it's kind of annoying that this pen does that, but
it may just be that it needs to be mixed up and you kind of have to work with it
to get it to look the way you want it to. You can even see a little bit inside the
pen that it's starting to turn orange in some places, so hopefully the whole thing
won't turn orange over time. It may just be something that is worth buying if you
use it a lot, but if you only use every once in a while, it's just more
annoying than it's worth. I'm not sure if I'm the only one who's having this
problem with this pen but it's kind of unfortunate because I really really like
it when it does work. I also have this exact pen in white, obviously it won't
show up on the white paper so I'm going to test it on a scrap piece of kraft
paper instead. So if you are looking for a white gel pen, this is kind of the one
that I researched the most and that people seemed to like the most! And I
like it too. Sometimes I have to write over something a couple times to get it
to be completely opaque, but once you do get it going, it really does look quite
nice. I especially like the way it looks on this Kraft paper, I have a traveler's
notebook that has paper like this and it looks really cool to have a couple
little white details mixed in with the black and the gold. And then I have one
gelly roll pen. I had so many of these when I was a kid, they were really popular
in the 90s. I don't actually know the name of this color but it has a little
shooting star on it and so I think you can probably match that up with their
different lines of different kinds of metallics and brights and pastels and
they have so many of these, so that's why I'm kind of surprised that it's the only one
I've managed to acquire so far, but it's a really beautiful shimmery blue, it's
kind of subtle, it's a nice thick line, and as you can see there, it's a really
pretty color. Now right at the bottom of the page here, I'm going to test out
some of these tombow dual brush pens. These are super popular, but honestly I'm
not very good at using them yet. I haven't practiced them a ton, but I hope
that eventually, I'll get better at using them. They look so cool when brush
letterers and other artists are using them on Instagram and I was kind of
jealous, so I bought some but I think there's a bit of a learning curve with
them. As named, they each have two tips, there's this big thick brush pen on one
end and then the other end is a fine tip. Maybe it's that I just picked some
really light colors so, oh that is not an "i", that's a "u". Silly Lauren. Now it
looks like it says dial. Okay. Here we go. Nobody's perfect, right? And then it's 243
is that number. And then with your brush pen you can get a
a thick line or a really thin line. And I have this nice lavender as well.
that is number 620. Until I get better at using the brush end, I've been using the
fine tip end more often, but it's quite nice that it has both. So now, I'm going
to turn the page and test out probably my favorite markers that I've ever
bought. They are the zebra mildliners and I
probably will keep buying these because I love them so much. I think the color
choices are just so beautiful. These are not your average fluorescent yellow
highlighters and they're really nice to write with. They have two different tips.
The regular end is a chisel tip so it's like your traditional highlighter, you
can highlight, but this is the end of that I use and I love these. This is just
a regular pointy marker tip and I use that one the most. I use it for writing, I
use it for drawing lines, I use it to fill in little boxes on my bullet
journal, I just, I love these so much and I love all the colors I have and I'm
probably gonna get some more. Unfortunately I do not know the names of
the specific colors that I have, but you can look online and I'm going to link to
all of these pens in the video description below and they come in all
kinds of different sets, so just choose the colors that speak to you the most. I
really love that they're not super bright, I just think they're beautiful. So
these are not a fine tip. These are more for drawing, filling in blocks of color,
but as you can see it's like a really nice sheer wash of color and I just
think it's so beautiful. So this is just kind of a really lovely purple. That's
the finer end and then you have the chisel tip highlighter end. This is one
of the two blues that I have and it actually comes out pretty dark once you
write with it; it's a bit darker than the cap. Here's the other blue that I use
pretty often and I think this one is quite lovely, it has a little tint of
green in it which I love, and then there's this lovely light green. Green is
my favorite color and I really like this. It's like a grassy lime green which I
enjoy. This is a really pretty yellow. It's just so warm and nice and so
different from your traditional yellow fluorescent highlighter. There's this
beautiful reddish pink, I really really like this. I usually prefer cool colors
but I really like this particular pink. And then this one, I didn't think I would
love this gray as much as I do, but I end up using it more than the colors
sometimes. It's just such a nice gray. I just think it's really lovely. And as you
can see, you have to keep the highlighter moving or you get these little lines but
they don't really bother me that much, I think they have some nice texture and
they almost have this kind of watercolor quality to them when they're dried and I
just think that they're super lovely. And there you have it! Those are all of the
pens that I find myself using most often. I really like a lot of these and I hope
that this information was helpful to you. Out of all of them, the ones that I would
recommend the most are the zebra mild liners and I pretty much exclusively
use that black uniball signo in my daily traveler's notebook. I love the way
that they make my handwriting look and I'm just a big fan of this pen. I hope
that you enjoyed this and that it was interesting or helpful to you and let me
know if you'd like me to test out any more of my art supplies for you! So those
are the tools I've been writing with in my journals lately.
What are your go-to brands and tools for writing and drawing? The funny thing
about this kind of stuff is I feel like I'm always excited to try out new ones
even when I'm reasonably happy with what I've got. There's just something about
new office supplies that makes me excited to work and create! Anyway, thanks
for watching and I'll see you soon!
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