Tag: Tombow
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How to blend with the Tombow blending palette and dual brush pens
Blending colors is so much fun! Blending also allows you to bring more color into your work, and experiment with various color pairings. This is great news especially for someone like me, who often gravitates toward using only one color in an entire piece. I am surprisingly not creative (or brave?) enough to use multiple colors…
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A comparison of my favorite brush calligraphy pens
Not all brush pens are created equal. Yes, they allow you to write brush calligraphy. But they are all different in their own way. From the look and feel of the pen itself, the sharpness, flexibility, and stroke width of the tip, and even the shade and amount of ink that spills out – these differences contribute to…
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How to hold the brush calligraphy pen
Maintaining control over your brush pen is crucial when first learning brush calligraphy. However, it can be a challenge figuring out how to best hold the pen, control your movement, and position your body, arms, and hands. The hardest part is finding what works best for you. Even after I share with you how I hold…
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Improve your brush calligraphy by practicing thin and thick strokes
The variation of thick and thin strokes truly define calligraphy. It is important to practice these different strokes and understand how they connect to form each letter. This is advice I am sharing with you that I wish I could have embraced better when I first started. When I first started doing calligraphy, I wanted to hurry up…
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3 ways to improve your brush calligraphy
The brush pen has quickly become my new favorite tool for writing calligraphy. The ink is already there, the flexible tip allows me to achieve the varying thick and thin strokes, and I can carry the pen with me everywhere!
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How to do brush calligraphy with the Tombow blending palette (+ a video!)
When Brittany from Tombow first sent me the Tombow blending palette to try, I ashamedly let the palette sit in the corner of my crafting table, staring at me for a while. Why didn’t I dive right into this amazing tool that effortlessly blends my favorite brush pens? I had no clue what to do.
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How to use the Tombow dual brush pen for brush calligraphy
If you follow me on Instagram, you are well aware of my love for Tombows. I created this post (with a video at the end!) as an overview of the Tombow Dual Brush Pen.
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