{"id":8944,"date":"2026-06-12T09:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8944"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:15:05","slug":"drawing-every-day-2026-day-one-six-one-pen-and-pencil-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/12\/drawing-every-day-2026-day-one-six-one-pen-and-pencil-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"[drawing every day 2026 day one six one]: pen and pencil tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ded-2026-161-v2-600x709.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8946\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ded-2026-161-v2-600x709.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ded-2026-161-v2-300x354.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ded-2026-161-v2-768x907.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ded-2026-161-v2-640x756.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ded-2026-161-v2.png 1075w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I carry a portable art studio &#8211; pencils, erasers, and pens, along with a sketchbook and some reference book for drawing &#8211; almost everywhere I go. Since this is a &#8220;carry it with me&#8221; sketchbook, I draw in pencil, then draw over it in pen, so the final drawing doesn&#8217;t get smudged away by being carried around everywhere for weeks or months at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ERGO, I care a lot about line quality of pens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pigma Micron are my current favorites, with 08 being used most frequently for heavy line work, 01-03-05 for interior work, and 10 for exterior lines on &#8220;artwork&#8221; as opposed to &#8220;practice sketches&#8221;. Derwent Sketching 2B is what I use most frequently to sketch out the drawings I will later ink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for drawing one six one for 2026 (actually drawn on day 60, because I try to draw ridiculously far ahead) I was apparently testing out Sharpies, Pigma Brush, and Staedtler Mars Lumograph pens as well as some other Derwent pencils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I still haven&#8217;t found a portable brush pen that I like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-the Centaur<br>P.S. My math seems off, it lists (30(m+1) +1w + d + 3), but I think that&#8217;s probably actually m+2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I carry a portable art studio &#8211; pencils, erasers, and pens, along with a sketchbook and some reference book for drawing &#8211; almost everywhere I go. Since this is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,227],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-8944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artworks","category-sketchworks","tag-drawing-every-day","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8949,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8944\/revisions\/8949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}