Kuretake Bimoji Fude Pen (Medium hard brush tip)

Item is perfect, writes smooth and dark. Unfortunately it bleeds through paper. Originally bought for my hiragana practice but I am also am artist. I havent tried it but guessing from my results with the hiragana paper I suspect it might bleed through drawing paper. Perhaps using thicker sheets for drawing but normal paper goes right through. Check the photo, it isnt bad but you notice it.

Very good pen I bought for a gift

Great for coloring, especially on monochrome coloring books. Easy to vary the line thickness. Super jet black coverage, with minimal to zero smearing. My only complaint is that the tip hardness dulls pretty quickly; it loses its rigidity/firmness and becomes harder to make extra fine lines.

This says it's for manga or calligraphy, but that's not quite true. The problem is that while you can vary the line thickness with this pen brush, you cannot do much to change the intensity, it's going to be dark. Calligraphy depends on a uniform darkness, you use different brushes to vary the thickness of the characters. Writing Kanji uses a stroke order and three basic types of strokes, a sweep where the line tapers to a sharp end, a stop where the line comes to an abrupt end, and a bounce where the line sort of check marks again to a sharp end. Calligraphy angles and tilts the brush to accomplish these, each component is a continuous stroke without lifting the brush. This tip does a nice job is practicing your small character writing for Japanese, and maybe Chinese as well. I bought a couple of workbooks, one for Katakana, one for Hiragana, to practice the various Japanese alphabets. I found this worked way better for creating the characters than a normal pen or pencil. It helped me to practice the stroke order and reinforced why a stroke order is used. As for other uses of this pen, you could actually do a fair job of caricatures. Many years ago I worked with a guy who was known as the Phantom, he did fantastic caricatures of people who worked for the power company. Some of these were not flattering to management, besides being good, they were mostly black line, no shading for filling, but made their point. This pen would be ideal for that type of drawing, but things with more detail or shading not so much. Recommended for practicing or writing Chinese or Japanese characters at least in the small size. If you really want to do calligraphy, they use a special paper and much larger brushes for thick bold strokes. Still if you master the smaller versions, the larger sized characters will be easier to do.

Thank you! It works well and came on time. Flows nicely when drawing.

I gave this pen to a terrific,young, teenage artist~who does mainly "manga" artwork! He LOVED the quality of this black pen!!! ( ~and said that the "loop" @ the end of it, was a great, little bonus~that's come in very handy!) He's worn it on a necklace / black silk cord, when doing art shows, to exhibit his work...and he loves to have a good pen, so easily accessible,to be able to do a fast sketch,for someone, too, @ these shows! ( he also LOVES the fact, that this is from JAPAN, since he's such a huge fan of Japanese art!!!) Was worth the price, for such a unique gift! (+ no issues w/ the delivery/ transaction etc..) NICE!!

This thing is great, and it doesn't smell. It creates really stylish lines for being inexpensive. It actually gives manga or any other drawing/writing the sense of authentically being Japanese. It will never replace a real brush and ink, mind you, but it does look good.

I love this pen for quick sketches. I can easily get very thin lines for details or thicker lines to quickly cover larger areas. Kuritake is my FAVORITE brand for many painting and inking supplies. They make great well designed products that are a good value for the $.

This is my absolute favourite brush pen for line art so far. The felt tip nib gives you enough control over the lines, unlike the Pentel brush pen, which requires a lot more practice and effort.

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Ame este plumon, es entre plumon y pincel, que mas puedo decir Kuretake siempre hace productos geniales, gracias amazon por tener productos de marca kuretake, en si muchas gracias por tener productos de arte japoneses, en mi ciudad no los encuentro en ningun lado.

This brush pen is spectacular, shipping wasn't very slow and came before the expected time. But the pen itself is awesome! It is fade proof, waterproof and smudge proof! The brush tip isn't too soft which is what I love, and seems pretty durable. Overall, great pen!

the best sketching brush pen ever! wish they were refillable though