Being around younger people really is infectious. What a thoughtful young lady! I'm not a big fan of markers either, but they are helpful for tidying up a painting etc. Really nice demonstration! The blending marker really made it come together. Helpful video and thorough. :)

You can always rely on Faber Castell to make great supplies, it really is something I've noticed haha. Great video Mark and it's no surprise to me that a student would gift a great teacher like you. Have a good week!

wow never thought of using masking fluid with markers. What a great tip Mark, thank you!

I am very new to markers and have been struggling with streaks and making everything smooth. I did not realize that you can use a blending pen to smooth the streaks-I have some tombows that come with blending pens and. I can’t wait to try this technique!

I'm autistic Native American LGBT female Savant. My art teachers saved my life. I remember my 3rd grade teacher pointing out my prodigious art skills. I'm a math prodigy but I'm a minority so zero opportunities & deal.with nonstop gaslighting. But, my art teachers were honest & made sure I knew I was gifted & talented. They were like that with all their students. They made sure they taught my fellow students that talent can be learned. They were often intimidated by my natural skills & thought they were bad artists because they had to study & practice a lot more. I was fast & my teachers had me helping the others. Only classes I loved. I actually hated math. It was boring AF. Anyway, thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us. I am now a federal investigator in the field on the Epstein investigation. It's horrific & I am reconnecting with my art to deal with the horrors I see. I am literally blown away by all the wonderful art instructors helping us learn different mediums, substrates, etc. I love my black pitt pen wallet & just ordered the sepia wallet & Gray scale wallet. They don't bleed on cheap journal paper from Dollar Tree blank journals. That says a lot. I will likely get the whole set.

Mark, Love your ability to Draw so easily. I love the Pitt pens and have the set. Love coloring with them.

Beautiful vibrant artwork. A treat to watch.

Whenever I buy my pitt pens, I always buy the set that has the XS pen in it, so I’m actually surprised that your set doesn’t have one! I don’t go out do my way to do it, they just always seem to be there. Faber castell is a pretty decent brand, to me. They seem reliable for the most part, but I’m never super in love with them enough to rant and rave. They just work they way I expect a pen to work, which I supposed given the number of bad pens I’ve tried for videos maybe I should be ranting and raving more. =>.

I just recently got a set of Pitt brush markers when I found them on clearance. Good to know you can use a blending marker with them.

i never used markers much outside of art classes both in college and in the community, but i enjoy them now, i have many brands, and use them all thx for the video, and i agree working with younger people with art is infectious , i do a lot of art projects with my grand daughter and i am never more inspired( she’s 7) lol

I started using my PITT pens during Inktober 2017 and I love them! They're also great for shading in mixed media ... once gel medium is totally dry (and if it isn't you'll stuff up your pens for good) you can use the PITT pens and smudge your lines - as they're indian ink there's only a very small window for doing this before they dry, but they add such depth to a project. I also find them really flexible with the mediums that they work on. I just love their intense colour and permanence. Glad you reviewed them :-)

Really nice demonstration, I love your art style. I have had the same experience with cheap markers and always found that they fall apart sometimes even sticking to your artwork meaning that when you try to remove it it smudges. For that reason I tend to avoid markers but the higher brand ones seem good so maybe I will try them some day 😊

I remember these! I’m not a fan of how patchy they can be, but I used them for my sketching for a little while and really liked the results. Made me loosen up!

This is my favorite kind of marker, and pretty much the only kind I use because they are lightfast! Great review! I just wanted to mention that they do put out a smaller fine liner than you have here. They have an extra small that comes in their larger set, but can also be bought separately. I hope Sabrina see's this! Working with students must be so fulfilling!

Love, love love this video! I really enjoy drawing/colouring fish. My home is filled with bright and cheery fish things (not the live ones). Thanks for another enjoyable video ❣️🇦🇺

Nice review..., So nice to being an teacher, i also teach students..👍👍👏👏

Mark, again great video, highly informative and right to the point. I love FC products and I am sharing with you all the pros using it. Could you please mentioned the cons of using markers? Thanks again for these high quality level of videos.

I order the XS pen from Dick Blick. PITT pens work great with watercolor washes. They are great for airline travel when you don’t want to fly with fountain pens. I know some artists prefer Micron pens, but I find they have a scratchy feel when you draw with them. PITT pens glide across the page for me. If I could only have one set of brush pens, I’d get the shades of gray set. Great for doing value studies. The set includes several values of warm grays and cool grays. Glad you are making videos again, Mark!

What a sweet gift from Sabrina. She must be thrilled that you used her markers in a video!I really love the fish, the colour range and their goofy personalities. Thanks for another good one. Patricia

A lot of my mixed media artist friends use them on acrylic paint (when dry) as they work well on that and they stay moist for a little longer which allows them to smudge the colour. This can create some interesting lining, pops of colour and highlights.

Your video was excellent . I am getting into Zentangle, and your reviews of art materials assists me about what to purchase when adding color to my tangles. I am sure you were an excellent teacher. I am a retired teacher myself. Your explanations are right on target.

Great review Mark! And what a terrific gift! 😃👍

My set of these drawing pens has B, F, S, & XS, and I think they are great. I am intend to purchase an M as soon as I can. 🇦🇺

Love your review video and the aquatic "usual suspects line-up (+ hidden octo) is too cute. Agree with you on the streakiness of markers, which has made me avoid them as well, so thanks for the tip about the blender pen--I had no idea. I'll give my markers a try again now. :)

Just discovered your channel and now I'm binge watching all of your videos, great work and really good advises! Thank you for your hard work!

Thanks so much for the review - there are the exact sets I bought so this vid is perfect

I love watching you draw. :-)

Faber Castell has the XS black pen. I recently got the whole set of 8 Pitt Artist Pens (Black) including XS, S, F, M, B, SC, SB and (1,5) pens. And thank you so much for this nice video! :)

Great review thanks, Mark and I really love your sketch :)

Great review. They do have an XS size in these pens, by the way. Apologies if it was already mentioned.

Hi there... I just discovered pens... I love Pitt pens. The colors are so vibrant. Beautiful. I ordered almost all the colors of Pitt pens, individually, from Jerry's Artarama. I also ordered a really cool, wooden, 3 drawer box to keep them in. It's small, the drawers are thin, and it's easy to carry around. Now, it's very easy to find the exact color I want. (I have them arranged by ROY-G-BIV.... Can you tell I'm a wee bit OCD?)

Wow, this is the first video I could find which actually show what these markers can do!

That's a lovely gift, and I hope you'll get another chance to go back to teaching someday, even another temporary gig. :D And Faber Castell does make finer tip pens within the Ecco Pigment series. I remember starting out with those and loving them, waterproof and with a 1-6 tip range. When I finished the ink I tried to buy them again but could only find them online, so I tried some Sakuras instead and... Nope, I have a heavy hand and the tip of the Sakura just consumes before I can finish the ink, so it's a wasted pen. Too bad, because I like their 005 size.

Just seeing your channel, Great video by the way

Great demonstration of these pens. I'm not surprised that a student would honor you with a gift - you're a great teacher. Although they are called brush pens, these are really markers. I use a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen for sketching. It has a true brush, with bristles that come to a point, and refillable with waterproof ink cartridges. Pentel also makes Color Brush Pens, which are water soluble. Have you ever used one of these? You can get fantastic line variation, and the ink just flows beautifully.

Great review

I wish I would know an art teacher that could help me get into art a bit more seriously. And maybe exchange ideas and stuff like that. Anyway, thank you for informing us about these brush pens. I want to start using something more effective than colored pencils and I'm trying to decide between these and a 60 brush marker set (Zig Clean Color). If you know what those are about, maybe you could advise me which would be better for a beginner like me.

Great demo as always, Mark! My issue with the PITT drawing pens is that they bleed through the paper in the sketchbooks I use.

You are an amazing artist 😸😸😸

I had bought these a few months back and I didn't care for them. Now I got to see your opinion

Wonderful video! And a really great tip with the copic blending marker! I'm eager to try that soon. I really need to subcripe to your channel. Have seen two videos now and I have to say, I really love them!

Very nice review of a special gift. It would be great if one day Sabrina does something with her art talent. I know we all need to encourage the next Picasso. It’s like my husband is always working to encourage people to play and grow tennis. As you make your drawing I told myself that I need to be on your Christmas card list. Who knows what you would come up with, if time allowed. I guess just being half way through watercolor month is making me a little crazy... Normally I do Christmas in July holiday cards. That way I get them out at Christmas and enjoy them before they go in the mail. Okay, rattling here, I like different mediums and its always great to see what others are doing. Take care, sorry you have the allergy voice, we all understand.

whaaaaat!!! an alcohol marker blender with non-alcoholic markers?!?? i gotta try this immediately. i've never had good results using the blender with my alcohol markers so it would be rad to find a use for it with my pitt pens!!

Thank you for this educational video! Can you use these markers on Art board if it is sealed with a medium?

I am looking for a White Pitt pen Comparison review, Amazon does not really give exact nib size on the “Big Brush pen”,I am trying to decide which sizes of the whites, I can afford and will use the most.... Thank you so much, loved your vid.

Love these Amazing FC Brush Pen, i have the Full set + Sanguine, Sepia and These Black pens as different nibs on and i use them a lot! How sweet is She Sabrina's do the best things to tell you how She enjoyed the class with you Mark, whe could easilly seen how you love Teaching this class on your videos,so came back to these supplies great review Mark and i hope you will use them more offend, you might start to like these Markers enough to added a touch of markers on your Artwork! lol! Thank You so much Mark for the great review, love your Sketc and the colouring, if you are not on the sschool as a teacher anymore, well you still a wonderful teacher here on utube, i always learn somethings very Handy on each videos you`ve produce. Thank You Mark! xx

You can flip over the tip by pulling it out and turning it over when it is frayed,to extend the life of these markers

I watched a lot of your videos and I'm wondering if you could start an art class may be at a library or something on the weekend when you're not working where you could work with young people and teach them art?

Nice review and I like your art :3

Wow ! you are very talented :-)

Nice fishes you got there mate

I was wondering if bristol board in general would be best for the pitt pens?

That for the review. QUESTION: copics are not lightfast so using the blender with these would it affect the lightfast mess of the Pitt markers.

I love these pens! The only downside, I think, is that they aren't refillable or that they have no replaceable nibs.

I recently bought these - original set of 24 & 11 colors as open stock. They are pigment based and have some advantages over dye based brush pens like Tombow and Sakura - they are light fast and water proof. And their smaller tips can be used to fill in small details easily. But I found a big problem which is that many of these pens display ink color/saturation that is quite different from the Faber Castell color chart. In my original set, Sky blue, Purple violet, Magenta and Orange glaze are quite dull vs. the color chart and the color that is shown in the official product videos. The open stock pens are much worse - all of them are pale and dull vs. both the color chart and the pens from the original set. I contacted Faber Castell Germany hoping to get free replacement under their product guarantee but they gave me a cold shoulder, denying any responsibility for the subpar color saturation of my pens. They told me that the most likely reasons for the pale & dull color were 1. Expiry of the shelf life (note that the retailer or the customer can't tell if this is true as there is no Best Before date on the pens) 2. Pens had been stored vertically for a long time before I bought them (note that no customer can tell if this is true before the purchase) Either way, Faber Castell Germany chose to blame other people in their supply chain and even the customer rather than helping him even though he had invested a fortune in these expensive pens. You can go for these if their virtues are important to your art work, otherwise any customer is taking a big risk when purchasing them because there is a high probability that they will display pale and dull pigment saturation due to the factors Faber Castell told me themselves.

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I think you have and older pack of pitt-pens because the newer pack come with an extra small pen. However they dont have the brush pen.

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I had a set of Micron liners. THey exploded. Got ink all over the place. All of them started leaking and I've been afraid to try them again. :/

Great video Mark! 😁 I love the fishies... lol 😉 I'm going to have to keep these markers in mind. I didn't realize they are lightfast, so this video was definitely helpful along with being interesting. I hope Sabrina sees your msg. 😃 I hope you are doing well my fiend take care!

Wow. Sounds like you really suit being a teacher.

I thought Pit markers are water soluble same as Tombows dual brush pens you can probably just use water brush for blending. I blend tombows with water.

Are these waterbased or alcohol based ink.. i enjoy watching you work.. i know the video is sped up but was courios as to how long it truely takes for you to do these drawings.. enjoy watching your videos..

They do have an XS tip. It's about as fine as a 0.05.

Hello! I am not familiar with some of the terms...what does medium lightfastness mean? And what does the masking pen do? Thank you so much! I enjoyed your video!

Wondering why you call them markers.. ? They are india ink pens.

The Pitt Artist Brush pens are water based, so you can use them with water.

I am really surprised by your technique, mixing Pitt markers with this Copic blender. I haven't seen it elsewhere and wonder why Faber Castell didn't release a "pitt blender marker" of their own. Have you noticed any degradation of quality, color shifting or, maybe, a reduction in lightfastness with this technique? Because I think Pitt markers can be especially difficult to use and this technique seems too good to be true!

And now AI can do anything in no time. It makes me sad. 😢

Must be OLD version of these pens! First: Stop complaing about not having an XS, when it is you who have choosen not to buy it. There is an XS I just have the 6 PITT artist pens black-pack, that (and other sets) have an XS... oh! and all of them have the size on each pen like this: XS 0.1, S 0.3, F 0.5, M 0.7 And on the side of the pack there is also that list of size in mm and letters (XS, S, F, M, C, B) - - - - It is sad you have this video online. I have seen and enjoyed many of your videos, but this does not give you any street cred.