How to Draw Manga with Dip Pens Beginner Tutorial

-----------
Wanna get more FREE Manga Tutorials DAILY?
👉 Follow us!

--------------
Featured artists and channels:

Student Features:

-------------
P.S. This channel is run by Artillery Philippines.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:48 Dip Pen Supplies (Nibs, Pen Holders, Inks and Deleter Comic Book Paper)
5:38 How a Dip Pen Works
6:11 Why Manga Artists Use Dip Pens
7:26 How To Use a Dip Pen for your Manga Lineart
9:11 How To Care for Your Dip Pen
9:54 Final Words

[crven_zaples]

Holly smokes, how did this channel go under my radar?! Amazing stuff, very informative. Even as an experienced artist I still love watching tutorials where I actually learn something new. You are never too good to learn something new or too bad to start improving your art <3

[JH-pero]

I've collected a wide range of inking tools at this point. I believe the reasons mangaka often work with dip pens tend to be along the lines of:

1. A higher friction tool for controlled lines. The scratchiness of a G-nib slows you down and makes each mark more deliberate.
2. A more crisp edge than alternatives(felt tip edges tend to feather a bit more, fountain pens don't grab the paper as much until you get down to EF nibs, and then they often start having ink flow issues)
3. Expressive flex points - it's faster to vary pressure than to go back over a line to sculpt it.

Before there were Microns, the biggest alternative to dip pens was brush, and brush can ink stuff in a flash and get some great line variation as well, but it's super tough to control and favors a more choppy look overall, so when a mangaka uses it, it tends to be embraced as their whole style. Ballpoints(including roller and gel) were never really competitive on line quality because the control and the mark made varies too much with the ball's rotation and the ink's pressure; fresh refills and near-empty ones behave differently. The Papermate Flair introduced a plastic tip design that predated the Micron, and a few folks in the West like Alex Toth would use those, but they don't use pigmented ink, so the art fades which makes it unappealing as a resaleable original. (The Pentel Tradio Stylo is a modernized take on this, still using a dye ink, but now with a cartridge) Technical pens were also used by a few Westerners(most notably Robert Crumb) but they are maintenance nightmares and mostly got superseded by the fineliners.

Today you can step down to brush markers and get most of the effect of brush, with less cleanup and more control. There's a huge variety of those with different levels of firmness and springiness. So they're my go-to for most traditional inks; the tactility of a brush as the tip squashes down is not replicated in digital. But the extremely clean, polished edges are still done best in traditional by having a sharp nib carve up the paper a bit, and digital can claim those particular marks better and faster.

[yevgeniashepielova]

Thank you so much for this lesson! Without any jokes - I was ordered my first dip pen just in the midlle of your lesson!

[Arvy]

Mokona of CLAMP uses markers to do the majority of her manga but she used Nib pens in her debut...and switched to markers early in her career.

[hanywgo]

Hi my name is jonir it is the first time to watch your videos and iam really please because
i found you and iam an Egyptian

[RevSteveHermann]

I love Manga. Great video and super encouraging instruction! I love it. Keep up the great work.

[joshuawells]

Im lookin foward for this to be popular on youtube!!!😁

[alannaramone]

Thank y9u for this!!!! Im a canadian manga artist just getting started. This is so helpful.

[mrlegend]

i just saw this video recently when i want to known my dip pen how its actually work and this channel is Brilliant

[MadDogRyan]

The biggest challenge I've faced so far in my career as an artist it's got a fire in my belly that I haven't felt about art in years

[RedTieflingRogue]

Did this out of curiosity a few times. I didn't realize that it was common!

[lielmanga]

I only met tippling through this basic tutorial. Thank you so much, must practice and apply it to my future manga.

[shing]

ive been wanting a dip pen but i really want a nib with a really fine nib

[aphlearntodrawmanga]

👉 If you're a beginner mangaka, aspiring to FINALLY create your first oneshot manga after YEARS of struggling and feeling stuck, then we would love to see if we can help! We are taking on 15 new students for our Manga Drawing Program.



👉 Sign up to your FREE Basic Manga Character Design Masterclass!

[wecreel]

Thank you for making this video it is vary helpful 😀😁

[ronaldanthony]

I'm really interested in using dip pens for both drawing, stylised writing and calligraphy

[Sameer-rz]

Your All video is so awesome and informative Just like a Pro 👍👍

[gokuwrightattorneyatlaw]

I joined the call and i can't wait to join the class because i know for a fact this is something i want and need to advance my skills. However im unable to join October's course so hope you guys can wait for me

[jpsimmons]

A bamboo reed pen can be also used for manga beginners.

[jpsimmons]

What about the bamboo dip pens? They are still used in Asia today!