Fudenosuke Brush Pen Set

Fudenosuke Brush Pen Set contains one soft and one hard tip . Tombow Brush Pen offers easy precision and control while still allowing for enough variation that you don’t have to switch pens constantly. With a flexible brush tip for different lettering and drawing techniques. Create extra-fine, fine or medium strokes by a change in brush pressure. Great for calligraphy and art drawings. The barrels are made of recycled polypropylene plastic, and contain odorless, water-based, pigmented black ink. Non-refillable.

The Fudenosuke was created originally to make writing kana easier in everyday-ish scenarios. Stroke order and direction matters a lot in the way Japanese (and Chinese) characters look, and using a brush to write accentuates those characteristics, making words clearer and easier to read, especially compared to fixed-width writing implements like typical ballpoint and gel-ink pens.

The fine point of the Fudenosuke allows for clarity in even the most complicated kanji and hanzi characters by ensuring you can distinguish all the individual strokes. The flexibility of the tip, meanwhile, lets you transition from fine to broad within a single stroke — this is what makes it easy to identify stroke direction, which is critical for lots of otherwise similar-looking characters

Luckily for artists, all the characteristics that make the pen great for its intended use also make it great for inking drawings. The extra fine point makes inking tiny details as easy as using a technical pen, while the flexibility gives drawings motion and character by varying line weight. Aside from giving drawings a certain look of energy, in cartooning, line weight is often used to distinguish foreground from background, with figures and objects in the front being bolder than those in the background. With technical pens and other bullet tip pens, varying line weight requires switching between a whole set of individual pens.

The ink in the original Fudenosuke is waterproof and alcohol-proof.

It’s worth noting though, that pencil lines cannot be erased once inked over with pen — this is the case with black ink, too, but it’s much harder to notice.