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Microns, my weapon of choice for years now. Awesome quality at a very afordable price

Summary: light touch to papers. THAT'S ALL literally.

Thanks so much, Rich! Your advice has helped me to turn a huge corner with all of my drawing tools, and has even helped my painting, too. As a fellow guitar player, I have found that a lot of concepts from music apply to art, and vice versa. Here's an anecdote that relates to the 'light pressure" topic: I had a guitar teacher that told me "You are using way more left-hand pressure on your strings than you need to, and that's causing strain." He had me hold my finger tip above the string, and lower it slowly until I was barely touching the string. Of course, when I picked the sting there was no note, just a muted thump. Then he had me increase the pressure litle by little just to the point where I was making a clear note, and no more. "That's exactly how much pressure you need!" He said. In the end, I found out exactly how much pressure was really necessary to make a clean tone - and how much was excess effort and steain. It was easier, less likely for injury, and it sounded better. That's a win/win. :) Thanks for all the great content and advice! Mike

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Yes! This is gold! Thx. Somehow i had split the tip of my 005 ?!? Got a new set and NOW I know how to prolong them AND get the right pressure on the paper. Gotta try to budget a Patreon, but in the meantime, thx for YT.

Thank you very much for your videos. This is exactly that I was looking for all these years. It’s very rare to find someone talking about these things. Learned so much. Thank you!

How is an 005 lasting years? Wow

That did immensely. That’s why I use the copics, the tips an cartridges are replaceable

Thanks for this. I've been using Microns for my comic and illustration work for years, but I always destroy the tips faster than the ink runs out. And no matter where I look, I couldn't find anything other than the angle to hold them at and how to fix a broken tip. Hoping I can master this pressure issue for better (life/quality) results. Cheers!

I have learned, over time, not to use them anymore to clean out the pencil shavings that get stuck under my fingernails (BUT THEY WORK SO WELL!). How do i fix those pens? If you answer this, I’m sorry, could you tell me in a couple sentences? I am around 8 minutes in and still don’t know anything about them that i need to know (i use them for writing)

Need to try out this extra soft drawing method ✌🏻☺️

Your drawer makes me feel better about my desk XD

Informative as always! Tyvm Rich!

Great stuff, as always. Thanks for doing these yt vids!

Get to the point.. god..

Thank you. I was having a few of the issues you mentioned. You’re right your video was the only one I could find. Thanks again

Microns are great, I also use the Rotring pigment liner and the copics. All really good pens

For a 10 sec tip you talked on for 13 freaking minutes! Damn!

Thank you for the video I just got a Micron 005 for zen tangle. It really helped me. I am heavy handed with pens. I think it will extend the life of my pens.

So very helpful! Thank you!

I used to work with Copic Multiliners a lot, but as time passed I've replaced them with Rotring Isographs, because of that problems of breaking the nibs. Yes they are replaceable, also the ink cartridge but my sizes of choice were 0.05 and 0.1 at that point, dotwork mostly and large pieces. So in between several weeks of dotworking on a piece I had to change at least 5 to 8 nibs for the 0.05 and a bit less for the 0.1, because they are really fragile if you use them that way. For lining however they are great, as long as you don't push the nib to hard on the paper. Wasn't using bristol, but other types of heavy papers for mixed media techniques from Canson. What I did liked about that breaking the nib part is that some of them were acting like a brush after so decided to keep them for some edge cases of texture renderings. They're good tools but I wouldn't rely on them now for my works, and use the Rotring Iso's as my primaries. The Rotring ink is also darker than the Copics and Microns, except for the artpens cartridges, which have a tint of blue or red in them and I kinda hate that. Decided to go with the Isographs because the nibs are made from metal, but they can be very tricky too and if you tend to put pressure on the pen it may scratch the paper surface. Not to mention the maintenance required for them, it's a pain in the ass and not a "plug and play" thing like the copics or microns. That thing when you mentioned regarding the level of pressure is more like creating a ditch in the paper when you tend to press and also the ink is leveled in it. Cool part about the Microns or Copics is that the nib feels somehow like they're having a rounded cap, and not like it's a block of cylinder with sharp edge(rotr. iso). The edge is a little beveled unlike the Isographs and due to that particular shape you can do feathering a lot easier with them. Still good tools but nothing compares with practice. If the hand is properly "calibrated"... oh well... you can create stuff even with a piece of stick dipped in ink. Cool video and I appreciate this technical part of using tools that not most tend to share. Subscribed, keep it up! Thank you!

exactly what I was looking for! I crimped the end of my 01 just enough the first time I used it and it completely ruined the ink flow. Good to know where I went wrong,

I have like 20 microns and I've always loved'em WOW! I mean seriously, this is exactly the kind of stuff I was looking for, and THANK YOU SO MUCH for putting this together and sharing it with us all, and for free! I found your channel, not so long ago and I'm glad I did! Thanks mate! SUBSCRIBED!

Been looking for ages for a way to save my inking efforts from fading. The irony is I press too hard with pencil, when I wasn't pressing hard enough with inks! Thanks.

The guitar technique is very interesting. I also learned that controlled light handedness leads to technical mastery in music! I brought those same principles to art years later. Especially with graphite shading it almost feels like strumming a chord and shading a page are the same skill.

Thanks, this helps me in my digital animation class.

Bruh. I always lose my pens when drawing. On the same table

Thank you for sharing this. I've had the tip go inside the pen maybe twice so far. I'm intrigued about the refill thing you mentioned.

WOW. Brings back memories! Not all good, either. ;) Some of my first pro inking (and uncredited) was doing backgrounds (read: inorganic subjects) for Robotech, which of course included the mechs themselves. Keith S. Wilson did the main inks of human characters and bigger foreground things. This was either before Microns and permanent markers, or I simply didn't know about them, but I was always up on the latest trends, the way I am now with digital tools. I did most of the inks with that very Gray-banded #0 Rapidograph you showed, pretty much my workhorse, go-to tool for technical inking. It worked great with all my templates and French curves, and I used it for the "how-to" and "features" drawings I did commercially back then. These are some very good tips, Rich! Good stuff for traditional inkers.

This man has meditated on the top of Mount Ink waterfall to know the secret techniques of the MICROOOOON!

Thanks my inking is improving

best channel on youtube, you and David are my go to's. Cheers

6:12 Is when he actually starts drawing with the pen

Thanks for this video. I learned this by destroying microns. The ink doesn’t flow when I push down hard either.

Absolutely saved my poor microns from further destruction ty 😊👌

See if you're filming in HDR. High Dynamic Range. If it's off, turn it on. If it's on, try turning it off.

My 005 lasted me a few months before I accidentally whacked it against the table top and the tip went into hiding. Doubt that’s fixable anymore

big user of Copic Multiliner SP myself, and definitely frustrated with that sliding felt nib.. get especially frustrating if you draw on watercolor paper that has more of a tooth to it, so I always buy spare nibs to replace. Curious if there's a good technique to achieve that liteness of line with the quill on watercolor paper as well

What about pages penciled with regular graphite? Doesn't the marker ink sit on the lead, such that when you erase the pencil art the ink wants to pick up too? At least that was my experience when I worked traditional...

You have absolutely right about that when i was start drawing systematically before 5 years i was having very hand with pencil with pen with everything, but with exercise this problem is non existent, thanks for sharing, its means a lot.

Haida teaches us how to use Microns. Best video

Seems like you would like rapidographs or whatever they are called

I've been playing guitar for 23 years, I know exactly what you mean

How do you get the ink to come out in the first place? I am working on fine details on 28mm miniatures and I cant even get ink to come out in brand new pens.

I prefer brush pens on the whole but I love my microns for small details

Have you tried Faber Castell's PITT pens? India ink pens, that draw just as well as pigma pens.

I’d love to see a video of you shredding the guitar...

Oh my word. This video could easily have been 75% shorter. To really master your video production and light it up try taking applying some of your guitar techniques. Like figure out what your going to say first, then edit, practice, edit more, practice, edit again, rehearse in front of someone. You wouldn't just grab your guitar go up on stage and wing it.

Can I use this on glass?

This sounds crazy via headphones!

You cats are fired!!

60% about my life, 35% look at my pens, 5% some lines on paper 😐

Omg ..to the point !!!

Artline drawing system pens or sakura pigma micron pens ?? Which one is better ?

which size of sakura micron is the best for outlining my arts of dbz characters?

Video starts at 13:52 lol

Hi umm I acedentally used microns on wet paint and it won’t work now... how do I fix it...

Nice mine is coming gundam paneline

i doubt if anyone will see this comment but here goes: i bought a box of 5 micron pens for about 7 bucks on amazon but after about only 2 months or so if medium usage they seem to have stopped writing properly like how a felt pen with low ink writes( scratchy and light) i've opened the bottom and looked at the ink and like expected it's full Does anyone have any solutions? (They are real btw)

Are these Micron pens alcohol based?

watch in double speed and jump to half of video

It's hilarious to see all the comments complaining about how "the video doesn't start fast enough!" and throwing around unwitty quips and unnecessary ad hominems. Dudes, instead of ranting needlessly, just use the preview in the progress scrubber and skip to where he clearly starts drawing. It's really not a big deal, especially given you paid zero dollars to watch this video. If you want a highly-optimized inking course, go buy some videos from Gnomon or something. Alternatively, you could just listen for the meager 5-6 minutes he spends talking, because it's a story about his industry experience and it's honestly pretty interesting. What are you going to do otherwise? I'll tell you what you're going to do. You're probably going to go waste time on Twitter or other videos on KZfaq. Because honestly? If you're spending your time ranting on KZfaq videos, then I seriously doubt you're spending it drawing and grinding and upping your game.

Thank you, for 3 years I could not figure out how to get nice lines. This help's alot!

Mine stopped working after 1 or 2 uses

Is there any trick for the dried micron?

You sound like Jordan Peele lmao

Pen on paper at 6:20

This is random but your voice reminds me of Adam DeVine

OK say it's amazing and I hate to critique but my god you're like me you go on lol

Little help skip the first 6:30

Colic multi liners are f’ing refillable… 🤨 I had job idea. I refill the markers all the time, never occurred to me that I can refill the pens too.

This video mad me so angry

dude mines suck no ink comes out

these dont work ive been trying for the past hour and my pen wont work its brand new and now its a wast of money

I never liked the ink in the Microns. It's a little tacky/sticky when it dries and it winds up 'catching' my hand as it scoots across the paper. Not a problem working digitally. LOL---- Now, can you help me with my tremolo picking, because mine sucks!

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Thanks man, that is awesome! I love you. Read the book - "Outwitting the devil" my gift to you, read it with a pinch of salt tho. Ty 😊

What u write at starting......!!!!

Turned off so much talking about nothing

Here, I'll save you 14 minutes of wasted time. Start by marking with no pressure, just the weight of the pen itself, then very gently increase pressure just enough to ensure a solid line. Don't press so hard that you crush the tip. Got it? OK, Good luck! Please spend the 13.5 minutes I saved you to spread joy in the world. Thanks!

I personally don't like the way half of the video was just him talking. . . . . Geez! 😒

You talk way too much. Stay on point dude!

Prepare. Keep it short and precise. I don't have time to listen to you for ten minutes when you could be precise in 1 minute by making a script

Dude!! You’re all over the place. Focus, for crying out loud. Write an outline. Write a script. Edit. Edit. Edit. I had to bail within 5 minutes.

Soooo long video

What a waste of nearly 14 minutes ,.,,...................

Took a year to get to the point

Geeze, get to the point!

Holy shit get to the point

omfg i already skipped 10x. just get to the point already

Talk too much

TOO MUCH YAPPING

Jesus Christ, way too much bullshitting. I can’t stand it. Bye!

Lord's sake! 6 minutes until we get to the point? Fumbling to find a pen? Plan your videos out before you start recording for cripes sake!

You should have your material ready for a video production. It is a waste of time waiting until you find something in your drawer to continue your explanation. Also too much talking and little action. What you are intending to teach seems interesting but a messy video kills the attention of the viewer

Seriously, get your materials out before you start filming rather than runt around for it. Secondly focus on a specific topic and stick to it. You have some good points but my god you ramble so much those points are lost. Also using a kneaded eraser or something extra soft will reduce eliminate fading.

You incessant chatter and name dropping takes away from the instruction. I kept moving ahead and not missing content, just chatter. I want to know your secrets and I'm at 4+ minutes. Seriously. Now, you are digging in the drawer? If you are watching this video, just skip to 6:33 when he actually talks technique. Nothing else that comes before is helpful. Watch for 20 seconds, then skip ahead to 9:25 when he gets to demonstrating his next point.