An opportunity for sketching
There wasn’t any new work for me at the office today. It took a couple of hours to finish off something left over from yesterday, and then I had the day off. (Without pay, of course, since I’m a freelancer. Otherwise it would be much cooler.) Nothing tomorrow either.
Why couldn’t they run out of work on a nice, sunny day? It was cold and rainy. I went over to Coliseum Books and did some sketching anyway. I read in 43 Folders how a lot of Moleskine users really like the Pilot G2 gel pen, and I discovered one in the pen holder on my desk, so I snagged it and tried it out. Maybe it works on Moleskine’s writing paper, but it’s too blobby and skippy for their slick sketchpad paper.
Then I knocked off a bunch of heads with that unidentifiable Japanese brushpen that works nicely with the Moleskine. The large one at the upper left and the one at the lower right were both people sitting nearby who I could sketch over the course of a minute or so; the others were all quickies, mostly passers-by who I just saw for a few seconds.
Then the kick-ass discovery of the millennium: My favored pen for writing, the one I buy in boxes of and carry around in the loop on my PDA belt-holder, the Pilot Precise V5, works really well on Moleskine sketch paper! It’s like Dorothy finding out that the shoes she’s been wearing all movie are the thing she’s been questing for. The ink isn’t water-proof, but I can make that a feature. The Melorne head shot up at the top of this comment was done with the V5, and then shaded a bit with a water pen. The Moleskine paper’s thick enough that the drawings on the other side weren’t disturbed.