Application Guide

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∫ AMANDA ∫
After coming up with a composition that I like, I pull out my tracing
paper and my Tombow Fudenosuke and use my brush pen to write the
words out.
I nd that sometimes the composition looks dierent once I do them
with a Tombow Dual Brush Pen and, before I move onto a nal product,
I want to make sure that I like the way that it looks in ink. Using my pen
once my sketching phase is nished also helps to conserve my ink. With
the number of pieces that I do, anytime I can save some ink is fantastic!
With just a few tweaks, the inked sketch is ready to go! When I scale
something up for a poster, I always sketch out my design with a pencil
again rst. Then I grab my Tombow Dual Brush Pen, which is great for
large scale pieces, and go over my lightly penciled letters (make sure
the pencil is light so that it is not noticeable underneath the marker).
If the edges of my letters aren’t as crisp as I want them to be, I ip the
pen over and use the ne tip to touch up any edges that I’m not happy
with.
This is perfect for me since I do most of my large scale work sprawled
over the oor and getting up to grab another pen simply reeks of
eort.
The nal product on acid free, archival quality paper
with an acid free Tombow pen is something that I
know that my friend will cherish for years to come
and it will look just as great then as it does now.
MIX AND MATCH LETTERS
When I add the word (or words) below what I’ve already done, I make some of the letters oat
higher to ll in the spaces or I stretch them taller than normal like little letter giraes. Just like
when I did the word above, I’m always trying to create a straight baseline with the bottom word
so that it gives a generally straight border.