Here is the latest listing of our favorite customer pictures uploaded to our Flickr and Facebook groups from the month of April!

Picture 1 from Eric:  How cool is it to have every size available in the Pentel Graphgear 1000 drafting pencils!

Picture 2 from Alexa: A lovely drawing using Pelikan Edelstein Fountain Pen Ink - Topaz and J. Herbin 340th Anniversary Ink - Rouge Hematite

Picture 3 from Paolo: Look at this awesome pen collection! So many different colors in the Sakura Gelly Roll gel pens, Zebra Sarasa Push Clip gel ink pens, Pentel Sliccis and more!

Picture 4 from Suzie: A great piece of fan art, featuring our own JetDa and JetDo!

Picture 5 from Torry: One of the coolest postcards we've seen, using the Pilot Choose Gel Ink Pen - 0.7 mm - White over a photo.

Another talented artist we discovered through our JetPens network, Eric Kubli is a freelance illustrator and web designer who also makes comics in his free time. He has a journal comic (http://comic.turtlesnearby.com/), maintains and contributes to a sketch blog with a few friends (http://drawedgoods.tumblr.com), and more of his professional work can be found at http://www.ekubli.com.

Give us a little insight as to how you use our JetPens products in your illustrations.

I use the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen. I tend to use it exactly how it's intended to be used. I order a few packs of refill cartridges from JetPens once every couple months. The only part of my process that I can really say anything interesting about is that I tend not to pencil anything - unless I really think it needs it, I tend to just go straight from blank paper to the finished inks. I also use Microns (typically 08, 05 and 005) for hatching, lettering and small details.

Another talented artist we discovered through our JetPens network, Eric Kubli is a freelance illustrator and web designer who also makes comics in his free time. He has a journal comic (http://comic.turtlesnearby.com/), maintains and contributes to a sketch blog with a few friends (http://drawedgoods.tumblr.com), and more of his professional work can be found at http://www.ekubli.com.

Give us a little insight as to how you use our JetPens products in your illustrations.

I use the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen. I tend to use it exactly how it's intended to be used. I order a few packs of refill cartridges from JetPens once every couple months. The only part of my process that I can really say anything interesting about is that I tend not to pencil anything - unless I really think it needs it, I tend to just go straight from blank paper to the finished inks. I also use Microns (typically 08, 05 and 005) for hatching, lettering and small details.

Another talented artist we discovered through our JetPens network, Eric Kubli is a freelance illustrator and web designer who also makes comics in his free time. He has a journal comic (http://comic.turtlesnearby.com/), maintains and contributes to a sketch blog with a few friends (http://drawedgoods.tumblr.com), and more of his professional work can be found at http://www.ekubli.com.

Give us a little insight as to how you use our JetPens products in your illustrations.

I use the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen. I tend to use it exactly how it's intended to be used. I order a few packs of refill cartridges from JetPens once every couple months. The only part of my process that I can really say anything interesting about is that I tend not to pencil anything - unless I really think it needs it, I tend to just go straight from blank paper to the finished inks. I also use Microns (typically 08, 05 and 005) for hatching, lettering and small details.

Another talented artist we discovered through ou rJetPens network, Eric Kubli is a freelance illustrator and web designer who also makes comics in his free time. He has a journal comic ( http://comic.turtlesnearby.com/ ), maintains and contributes to a sketchblog with a few friends ( http://drawedgoods.tumblr.com ), and other, more professional work can be found at another, more professional website ( http://www.ekubli.com ).

Give us a little insight as to how you use our JetPens products in your illustrations.

I use the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen. I tend to use it exactly how it's intended to be used. I order a few packs of refill cartridges from JetPens once every couple months. The only part of my process that I can really say anything interesting about is that I tend not to pencil anything - unless I really think it needs it, I tend to just go straight from blank paper to the finished inks. I also use Microns (typically 08, 05 and 005) for hatching, lettering and small details.

What a surprising honor it was to have the famous Will Meugniot as one of our JetPens customers!  Will Meugniot has enjoyed a long career in the entertainment industry as an executive, artist, writer, producer and director. Will’s television work includes producing and directing many animated series including X-Men, The Real Ghostbusters, Jem, Captain Planet, Spydogs, Spider-Man Unlimited and his personal favorite, ExoSquad. In print Meugniot is best known for his co-creation of the DNAgents comic book, but has also contributed to such series as FemForce, Tigra, Howard the Duck, and Solomon Kane as well as briefly ghosting the Spider-Man newspaper strip. He is also noted as a storyboard artist having designed the titles and pilot films for several series, most notably G.I. Joe, Conan the Adventurer, Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters and Jem.

Give us a little insight as to how you use our JetPens products in your illustrations.

I use the Pentel Pocket brush for most of my large figure work. It has a flexible line not unlike an old school red sable water color brush and is durable as well as portable. I’m also a big fan of the Zebra sign pens in the fine and extra fine widths. They have the feel of crowquille pens without the mess and portability issues.

When working out a cover design I’ll usually block out the composition with the Zebra sign pen. Then take it into Photoshop to scale it and do modifications. I use a Brother 11x17 all in one copier to print out a full size copy to trace onto the actual art board using blue pencil. Then comes the inking: Mechanical outlines for buildings and cars are done with a Pigma marker. Organic lines for people, animals, clothing and so on are a combination of Pocket Brush and Sign Pen. Large black areas are done with a Pentel Color Brush or conventional brush with India ink.

Hey Will, can the JetPens team get your autograph with some of our pens?  :)

Here's a belated listing of our favorite customer pictures uploaded to our Flickr and Facebook groups from February!

Another artist we discovered through our JetPens Twitter network, Andy Jewett is a JetPens customer and cartoonist who lives amongst the corn with his lovely wife and four children.  You can view more of his art at andyjewett.com.

Give us a little insight as to how you use our JetPens products in your illustrations.

I'm a big fan of the Pentel Pocket Brush and use it for nearly all of my work... it's ridiculously convenient in comparison to dipping a brush and I'm still able to get the kind of expressive line that I want. I have several of them in reserve for when the tips degrade but I keep around the old ones to use for filling in large areas of black. I also use Sakura Pigma Microns (03, 05, 08) for smaller detail and some of the stipple/texture that often shows up in my pages.

Please check out his work!  Thanks for sharing Andy!

Another round of our favorite pictures from our Facebook and Flickr page.  Thanks to the following customers mentioned below:

Picture 1 from Kata: Poetic art with Uni-ball Signo Bit UM-201 Gel Pens
Picture 2 from Sarah: Artistic lettering with Uni-ball Signo DX UM-151 Gel Pens, Pilot G-2 Gel Ink Pens, Uni-ball Kuru Toga Auto Lead Rotation Mechanical Pencil    
Picture 3 from Jessica: Soothing watercolor with Pentel Aquash Waterbrush - Medium
Picture 4 from Rose: Talented portrait of grandson done with Uni-ball Kuru Toga Auto Lead Rotation Mechanical Pencil, Nano Dia Low-Wear Pencil Leads
Picture 5 from Marty: Nice line up of Pentel Stein Enhanced Silica Pencil Leads
Picture 6 from Joe: Vibrant floral design done with Pilot Double Sided Brush Pen - Hard Tip - Black & Gray Ink, Pilot Choose Gel Ink Pens, Color Pencil Leads

We hope you enjoy your gift certificate! We are excited to see what pictures are uploaded by customers next month!