A product photo of five different sized markers.

Montana Sketchliner

Really good markers — I’ve used them for years. In fact, only Molotow has been in my collection longer. Another proof that Germans know their shit when talking about beer… I mean art supplies. Even though these are manufactured in Japan. Montana Sketchliners tie for third place with Stylefile. Again, really hard to find anything …

Many sketchbooks on top of each other, most of the books have stickers on their covers.

Sketchbooks and Papers

I’m not that picky about these. As long as the color of the paper is correct, the paper is acid free (doesn’t yellow) and it is smooth and thicker than regular copy paper (80g/m²). Especially with sketchbooks you don’t want the black ink bleed through the pages below. And when scanning the sketches to the …

Markers

Most of the markers I reviewed have water based ink, some are alcohol based. Even if the latter, they are very neutral in smell. I mostly use sizes 0.5 – 0.8 for drawing, but for filling in the larger areas I naturally try to use the larger ones, 0.9 – 1.2. I also noticed that …