( Disclaimer: This product was provided for me free of cost but I am not otherwise being compensated for this review. The Futayaku is available at JetPens and is well worth dropping one on your cart to have a new pocket friend ready to ink up a page. But it was like using a well-made tool whose makers understood the limitation of what the tool was and perfected it because of that. Pilot Futayaku Double-Sided Brush Pen - Black / Gray Ink. Now, it didn't disappear in my hand like I was suddenly communicating directly to the paper as ink incarnate, like I sometimes feel with brushes (we've all been there, am I right?). Product Type: Scrapbooks-Pens & Markers This product is imported from USA - It is a 100. This pen could be a more forgiving alternative, not replacement, to a brush. In that respect, it actually trumps a brush in performance. The damn pen has two tips, make sure you use both. The lines are easier to control and leave a smoother stroke, where sometimes a brush will echo the minor shakes of my hand. I stopped expecting to get the variance of line width that a real brush would give me and leaned into the predictability of the line widths and their limitations. The dual nature of the pen works wonders with my workflow and felt like it was the antidote to my problems with other brush pens. I havent quite gotten the hang of using a brush. This helps when re-positioning your hand over previously laid lines to use the other side of the pen, which is great because that is exactly how I was using this pen. Todays Pen of the Day is the Pilot Futayaku Double-Sided Brush Pen. About a 4 second dry time and you are safe to touch the paper. It is lightweight, but not so much that it’s thrown off when one side has both caps. This seems like a no-brainer, but so many dual pens do it wrong or poorly. The caps also nest within one another, so you can always fit the one on top of the other side you aren't using, stacking two caps on one end. You can switch cap sides, the large cap fits the small side and vice versa. It has double caps one for each side and the large end cap has a clip. I know that it sounds lazy, but flipping the pen to use the other side is so much better than stopping to dig for another pen. The difference between to the two tips is so perfectly divided that it leads to an amount of flexibility I’ve not found in another felt tip brush pen. The small side's largest line width is precisely the thinnest of the wide side. In that way it ceases trying to be an imitation and embraces the functionality it does have. A tool that knows it's failures and has a built in compensation. I figured that I would end up aggravated, so I wanted to take my own advice and treat it as something else. When I picked this thing up I didn’t want to compare it to a brush.
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