art supplies: Tombow Monotwin

[eye_of_toad]

Have you ever abused an art supply to death and only afterward gone, "Oh, wait, that was not how I should have used that" or is that just me?

I bought a Tombow calligraphy set, not because I ever do calligraphy, but because it listed an interesting collection of pens/markers that I was curious about. I'll post about the others another time, but this is about the "Monotwin"



It's an oil-based marker so pretty much a fancy Sharpie equivalent. And I was like "meh, whatever" and focused all my love on the other pens in the set and used this thing completely up doing this...



I knew it wouldn't look good. This was just one of those meditative pieces you do when you don't want to think. (I did some other stuff too so I didn't use it up entirely on this one page, but this was the page that finally killed it off.)

Here's the thing. Notice that name is "Monotwin". There are two ends to this marker and one of them was a very fine tip that puts Sharpies' "extra fine" tip to shame. I absolutely should not have wasted this marker on a mindless filler page.

I don't need a fine-point oil-based marker so it's not high on my "buy again" list, but it still feels disrespectful to have killed this off when I have a ton of other black markers that I could have used for this.

Comments

[leecetheartist]

But the background patterning looks beautiful! Not a waste!

Thanks!

[eye_of_toad]

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