After various adventures (click if you are curious), I have returned! With! Something! Exciting! As an ardent doodler, my notebooks are littered with squiggles and fat birds (affectionately nicknamed my little “obese birdies”). I will be writing lines of text in my awful handwriting, and SUDDENLY I’ll start thinking about something silly. Like petit fours. Too weak to resist the doodling twitches, I find myself abandoning a block of text, finding a clean plot of paper, and stamping my claim. As a result, it’s a lovely treat to come across a tighttt doodling tool. Yes, these pens are worthy of the extra Ts.
The Kuretake Pocket Color Brush Pen is perfect for doodling! My greatest beef with marker pens is that they often have weak tips. Although it is possible that I exert an abnormally excessive amount of force (I have small hands and weak arm muscles…PRESIDENTIAL FITNESS PULL-UPS? FAIL.), I feel like marker pens should at least be able to survive my abuse. I’ve played with my pink Kuretake brush pen for a while (thank you JetPens!), and the tip is still in perfect condition (WIN). I even subjected it to….
THE STICKERS AND DONUTS WRITING IMPLEMENT TEST SHEET (SO FRESH, SO THOROUGH)!!!!
Maria crafted this official test sheet, and it is exciting to finally debut it! As you can see, I am hardly the artist. ALSO OF NOTE, I should have added “so far” after “Things I Have Eaten Today.” Fear not: I am hardly anorexic; this list simply logs my intake from 8-1pm that day. The most notable bit of this great test sheet is the water test! I subjected my last new pen to a torturous waterboarding test, and felt it necessary to again execute the same test. The Kuretake brush pen line is supposed to be water resistant, and this test confirms it. The blob is only minimally fuzzy, despite all the water I threw at it. SUCCESS.
Kuretake Pocket Color Brush Pen – $1.50 per pen; 6 color set ($9); 12 color set ($18) at JetPens.com!
Maria’s Note, 1/24: As per your requests, a blank, full-page version of the “Writing Implement Test Sheet” is available for download here.
Some Bolsheviks from from Maira Kalman’s The Principles of Uncertainty (book found via Pikaland). Maira also worked on the illustrated version of Strunk & White’s classic The Elements of Style.
