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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 brush pens 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.
I mean, just look:
PENS
Faber Castell Goldfaber Aqua Dual Marker, Light Cobalt Green 356 (NEW!)
Here’s a new product from the famous 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
Edding 1340 Brush Pen is slightly 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 ptip here, especially in this light magenta-toned color, mmm.
Staedtler Pigment Brush Pen, Lavender Light & Cool Grey Light (NEW!)
Staedtler’s new line of brush pens are made with a slightly thinner but reasonably hard tip and waterproof paint, which means it won’t bleed into other colors when it dries, it’s lightfast and sheet protector too. It’s so fun that I took two, one of which of course can be used to shade letters if that happens to be your thing.
Pentel Brush Sign, Black & Fluorescent Blue
Now we’ve 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’s available in 36 colors in total should you want to add to it eventually, and you will.
Uni Pin Fine line Black, 04 & 08
To complement all the brush pens and give you the opportunity to create really nice pencils without these fancy creatures, I have included two fineliners as well. Fineliner is just pen lingo for narrow marker, btw. I chose UniPin Fine line because I love their nibs, but also because they are waterproof. So they work beautifully 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 maybe 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, an antique Uni Ball Signo Broad with soft white color, perfect for black or colored paper, or to add highlights and create 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
A pad of paper of the finest quality! Lettering Pad Smooth is made of my favorite paper since forever, that creates a beautiful result, and also makes the tips of your brush pens last longer. I make all my paper pads myself, and the paper is produced in Sweden with minimal effect on the environment. The color is creamy white.
5 Postcards & 5 Simple Cards, A6 Ivory
I included empty cards because they are the perfect size to start with when you’re showing off your letters to others (large papers can be intimidating and have so much more space to fill) and also, it’s so much fun to get a hand-drawn card in the mail, or with your gift. The cards are made of high quality Swedish 200 gsm ivory tinted paper. A6 is the perfect greeting card size, remember?
PRACTICE SHEET
Learn Brushlettering, 24 pages.
If you’ve managed to read this far, you should know that you’ve now reached this kit’s gem. 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 form a decent “a” if you haven’t learned the technique. Enter: The practice sheet! More than 20 pages in English with basic strokes, upper and lower case alphabet, letter combinations and whole words in a script style. You’ll recieve the practice sheet as a pdf (a link is sent to you with 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 perfect for Pentel Brush Sign, of which you get two. 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 practice sheets are always handed out (with the difference that you get significantly more pens here!) in my in person workshops. 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 is a lot to wrap your head around, both the shape of the letters and the actual technique with the brush pen, so practice patience along with the letters. Once you get the hang of it, there are other 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 lot of different individual pens in here too, for those who know you can never have too many pens, hehe.
