It holds up okay if you touch it with some watercolors on a just barely moist brush, but if too much water gets into the paper it bleeds in an ugly, feathery way (see around the bird). This drawing also demonstrates that the ink is not waterproof.

I recently spent a few minutes sketching at Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square and couldn't avoid getting my hand in the ink (smudges are visible on the main figure's backpack). With a wetter application comes more smudging. Here are some loose comics I made using the Pilot hard brush which is maybe a better direction for this particular tool. I found it a struggle to control this pen.

Unfortunately, while the Pilot does lay down a nice black line, it is also a very thick line. They were stocked with good black ink, so this difference is probably entirely due to the difference in ink flow. You can see here that by comparison, the Pilot brush makes the lines from the Pentel Pocket and the Kuretake No. You'll get that effect if you use toothy paper or if you go fast enough, no matter what brush is used - see the right side of the above drawing - but the greatest strength of the Pilot Pocket Brush -Hard is that it really wants to lay down an easy lush sloppy black line, packed with ink.

Can you tell I didn't like how her face turned out?Ī frequent complaint for brush pen users is that the ink doesn't flow freely enough, resulting in a dry brush effect where you really didn't want one. This review is by Kalina Wilson, who can also be found at .Īnother Victorian, posing with the Pilot Pocket Brush Pen (Hard) in Strathmore's smooth bristol Visual Journal.

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