Well, I am alive, busy working on my pre-convention prep (and cleaning some images up before I do my major order of prints for the year).

While at PearlART yesterday buying some plastic Sakura erasers, I noticed a new addition to the Marker section -- Shinhan markers. The good news was the pricepoint was somewhere in the 3 dollar range, which makes it cheaper than Prismas and Copics. It also has a dual tip -- broad and fine -- although the fine is slightly better than the old tiny tiny fine tip that the old Prismas had.

My only complaint though is that like Prismas, the feel of the marker is a bit rough. It looks and feels like a marker that needs marker paper to work best. It also only has about 170 or so markers apparently in total, and so it doesn't have the high level of colors that Prisma does. However, I have to say that I loved the range in warm tones for flesh colors. It feels like the range in colors is good enough for human figure rendering. (Plus, I liked that they had some really good reds and greens in the collection.)

I think this might be a good start for someone who wants Prismas minus the price, or wants to mix and match.



For a neat blog on how it's used - see
this blog on Korea and animation.

On a random note: GO SPEED RACER GO . Really crazy colors and the homages to the manga with speedlines and goofy shoujo lights had me snickering. Still, fun fun ride.

Photo gallery and journal
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Conventions I'll be scaring in 2008
Megacon - Done!
Momocon - I survived
AX - Confirmed
AWA - CONFIRMED. YEAHHHHH

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