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Lo and behold: All the Tools None of the Talent (yet) is a carefully selected and complete kit for lettering. If you’ve ever wanted to learn lettering, this is your sign.
I’ve gathered everything you need to become a lettering star – pens (of course), paper, practice sheets and cards. Not only do you get 6 Pen brushes in different colors and sizes, but also a 24-page guide on how to use them (in Swedish), as well as 2 fineliners, and pencils for shadows and highlights, 1 block of pigskin paper and 10 cards. If you ever had an excuse for not being a star at lettering anymore, it’s now gone. Just take a look:
PENS
Faber Castell Goldfaber Aqua Dual Marker, Light Cobalt Green 356 (NEW!)
Here’s a new product from Faber Castell that I like a lot. It is a water-based pen with a fairly large brush tip, and a really good fineliner tip at the other end (much better than other similar pens). The color does not bleed through paper. The barrel and cap are made of 100% recycled plastic.
Edding 1340 Brush Pen, Pink 009
The Edding 1340 Brush Pen is a tad smaller than the above but still big enough for a “Congratulations” to fill the front of an A6 card, and with a good damn brush tip (you know how picky I am about the tips). Edding has a given place here, especially in this light magenta-toned color, mmm.
Staedtler Pigment Brush Pen, Lavender Light & Cool Grey Light (NEW!)
Staedtler’s new series of brush pens are made with a slightly thinner but reasonably hard tip and waterproof paint, which means that it does not bleed into other colors when it dries, it is also lightfast and sheet-resistant. It’s so fun that I took two, one of which can of course be used to shade letters if that happens to be your thing.
Pentel Brush Sign, Black & Fluorescent Blue
Now we have moved down to small brush tips and of course land in my favorite, Pentel Brush Sign. My first love that still holds up. Thanks to its size and the design of the tip, it’s easier to handle, and that’s why the practice sheet is adapted to it – a great little water-based brush pen. It comes in 36 colors in total should you want to add to it eventually, and you will.
Uni Pin Fine line Black, 03 & 08
To complement all the brush pens and allow you to create really nice pens without those fancy creatures, I’ve included two fineliners as well. Fineliner is just pen-lingo for narrow ink pen, btw. I chose UniPin Fine line because I love their nibs, but also because they are waterproof. So they end up looking great in combination with the above pens without staining if you just let it dry first. Maybe you wanted to draw nice outlines around the brush letters, or you want to draw the letters from scratch, like we do in my workshops?
Uni Ball Signo Broad, Pastel White
And last but not least, a vintage jelly pen with soft white color, perfect for black or colored paper, or for adding highlights and creating a small distance between the letter and its shadow. Here you have a ballpoint pen with thick color, and it is precisely the thickness that makes it opaque and thus very useful. It’s not all the (lettering) details, folks.
PAPER
Lettering Pad smooth, A5
Here you have a pad of paper of the very best quality! It is my favorite paper since a long time and I have it in many of my blocks – Scandia 2000 Natural Smooth. Extra choice and smooth as I don’t know what. It’s nice to write on and makes the tips of your brush pens last longer. The color is soft white.
5 postcards & 5 simple cards, A6 Ivory
I have included postcards, because it is A: the perfect size to start with when you are going to show off your letters to others (large papers can feel intimidating and have so much more space to fill and B: so much fun to get a hand-drawn card in the mail. Then I included plain, simple cards too so you can use them when you’re giving a gift. A6 is perfect Grattis size, remember?
PRACTICE SHEET
Learn Brushlettering, 24 pp.
If you’ve managed to read this far, you should know that you’ve now reached the diamond of the kit. Because all those brush pens I listed above become a bit redundant if you don’t know HOW to use them. I mean, you can buy all the Pens in the world and still not manage to shape a decent “a” if you haven’t learned the technique. Enter: The practice sheet! More than 20 Swedish pages with basic strokes to start with and then the upper and lower case alphabet, letter combinations and whole words in writing style. You get it as a pdf (a link is in your order confirmation) so you can print out the pages as many times as you like and get REALLY damn good. The practice booklet is adapted to Pentel Brush Sign, which you have two of. The booklet is not sold separately anywhere and can be downloaded three times within 30 days. Please do not distribute it to anyone.
In summary, this is as close to a workshop with me as you can get. Cards, pens, paper and exercise booklet are always handed out (with the difference that you get significantly more pens here). Read the booklet carefully and be kind to yourself. In particular, remember to write very slowly, otherwise it is hopelessly difficult to get the letters right. There’s a lot to get into your head, both the shape of the letters and the actual technique with the brush pen, so it needs to take some time.
Once you’ve got the hang of the technique, there are more styles you can learn, with or without a brush pen. You’ll also find more brush pens in kits, such as the Smallish Brush Kit and It’s not Hoarding if it’s Brush Pens. And of course, you’ll find a bunch of different individual pens in here too, for those who know you can never have too many pens, hehe.
