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lettering Lesson Plan — Greetings teachers, parents and group leaders! Here is a simple lettering lesson plan to use with students Grade 7 and up. This project can be done in one lesson. Tombow’s MONO J Drawing Pencils and White Plastic Erasers are available from Tombow in a Class Pack, but you can also use […]

Lettering Lesson Plan for Teacher Appreciation Week

May 7, 2017 in Free Downloads / General / Handlettering / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Art Lesson Plan / brush lettering / Fat Filler Font / Free Downloadable Brush Lettering Worksheet / Fudenosuke Pen / Hand lettering / Marie Browning / MONO J Pencils / MONO Multi Liquid Glue / MONO Twin Permanent Black Pen / School Motto / White Plastic Eraser by Marie Browning

Hey everyone, Katie here! This week we’ve been celebrating teachers for National Teacher Appreciation Week, so I wanted to create a project that would make a good gift for any teacher in your life. These bookmarks are super easy to put together, and because they are magnetic they won’t fall […]

Free Printable Bookmarks to Color for Teacher Appreciation Day

May 6, 2017 in Adult Coloring / Design Team / Free Downloads / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Blending Palette / bookmarks / coloring / Dual Brush Pens / Teacher Appreciation / tombow extreme adhesive by Katie Smith

painting with paper with traditional japanese technique — In this post I will show you the ancient Japanese art form of painting with paper. Using Tombow Dual Brush Pens for color and MONO Aqua Liquid Glue as your adhesive, you will learn how easy it is to create beautiful pieces on cards or panels. The free downloadable pattern features […]

Painting with Paper: Japanese Washi Art

April 4, 2017 in Cards & Papercrafting / Free Downloads / General / Mixed Media / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks by Marie Browning

MONO J Pencil Techniques @mariebrowning — Basic Pencil Techniques with MONO J Drawing Pencils from Tombow Here are some fabulous pencil techniques with MONO J Drawing Pencils from Tombow. There are 6 grades in the Mono J Pencil Line: 2H, HB, B, 2B, 3B and 4B. A great range for beginners to start to create beautiful […]

Pencil Techniques with MONO J Pencils from Tombow

March 30, 2017 in Design Team / Free Downloads / General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Drawing Pencil / free download / Hatched pencil strokes / Marie Browning / MONO J Pencils / Pencil Techniques / Scribbled pencil strokes / Stippled Pencil Strokes by Marie Browning

adding patterns to blended areas @mariebrowning — Here’s a easy and fun blending technique using Tombow’s Dual Brush Pens and Blending Kit. This indirect blending technique can be done on most papers and will have you applying color like a pro! So if you love to make cards, are an avid colorist or just want to perfect your […]

Blending Techniques for Dual Brush Pens

March 26, 2017 in Adult Coloring / Cards & Papercrafting / Design Team / Free Downloads / General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Blending Palette / Blending with Dual Brush Pens / Dual Brush Pens / free download / Indirect Blending Technique / Layering with Dual Brush Pens / Marie Browning by Marie Browning

free printable Dr. Seuss inspired bookmarks @marie browning — Hi everyone! It’s Tombow’s Signature Designer Marie Browning here to celebrate National Read Across America Day! Did you know that Read Across America Day is celebrated every year on the birthday of Dr. Seuss? To honor this celebrated children’s author, I’ve illustrated three free downloadable coloring bookmarks inspired by none […]

Free Dr. Seuss Inspired Coloring Bookmarks for National Read Across ...

March 2, 2017 in Adult Coloring / Design Team / Free Downloads / General tagged adult coloring / Dr. Seuss / Dual Brush Markers / free download / Irojiten Colored Pencils / Marie Browning / new coloring technique / Read Across America by Marie Browning

Hi friends! Dani here and today I’m sharing with you an easy value scale I created for the new Tombow MONO Drawing Pencil Set! A value scale is just a fancy name for a guide that shows the shades of lightness and darkness you can achieve with a particular medium […]

Value Scale Using Tombow MONO Drawing Pencils

January 16, 2017 in Design Team / Free Downloads / General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Dani Manning / Drawing Pencil Set / Pencil test / Tombow / Tombow MONO Drawing Pencil Set / Tone Scale / Value Scale by Dani Manning

My Lettering Story Serena Bee here and today I want to share my lettering story. Ever since I was a kid in elementary school I always wanted to do fun lettering. I remember trying really hard to master the bubble letters in grade 4 but I always told myself “I’m […]

My Lettering Story Ft. Tombow Lettering Sets By Serena Bee

September 7, 2016 in Design Team / Free Downloads / General / Handlettering / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Advanced Lettering Set / Doodling / Lettering / lettering for beginners / lettering sets / lettering story / serena bee / Tombow Beginner Lettering Kit by Serena Bee

5 Steps to Working with Clients | by Amanda Arneill for Tombow | Introducing Tombow's new Lettering Sets! — Today we have a special treat for you – our friend, Senior Brand Ambassador and amazingly talented hand lettering artist Amanda Arneill has written a fantastic guest post for us as we celebrate the launch of our brand new Lettering Sets. Today, Amanda is sharing with you her top tips for […]

5 Steps to Working With Clients by Amanda Arneill

September 1, 2016 in Free Downloads / Guest Designers / Handlettering / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged client work / Hand lettering / handlettering / Lettering / lettering sets / lettering tools by Tombow USA

Hi everyone! We hope you enjoyed Lettering Week on the blog last week and learned a lot from our lineup of amazingly talented guest letterers! If you missed any of the posts, you can go back and read them here: Applying Pressure in Brush Calligraphy – by Sharisse DeLeon Mixing […]

Free Lettering Guide from Tombow!

October 11, 2015 in Free Downloads / Guest Designers / Handlettering tagged free download / Hand lettering / handlettering / learn lettering / learn to handletter / Lettering / lettering guide / modern calligraphy / Tombow / tombow usa by Tombow USA

Hi everyone! We don’t know about you, but here at Tombow we are kind of obsessed with adult coloring. What better way is there to return to your stress-free and responsibility-free childhood days than sitting down with some markers, colored pencils or crayons and filling in a fun coloring page? […]

Free Adult Coloring Page Downloads!

September 16, 2015 in Adult Coloring / Free Downloads / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks / Zentangle tagged adult coloring / adult coloring page / coloring / coloring for adults / coloring for grownups / coloring page / creative coloring / Dual Brush Pens / free coloring page / free download / free printable / grownup coloring / printable / Tombow / Zentangle by Tombow USA

Hi everyone! We hope you have enjoyed all of the color love on the blog this week! We get asked a lot about the best way to track your Tombow Dual Brush Pen colors, and so we thought we’d make things easy for you by creating a Color Selector and […]

Free Downloads! Dual Brush Pen Color Selector & Tracker

September 5, 2015 in Free Downloads / General tagged color selector / color tracker / color wheel / downloadable / dual brush pen / Dual Brush Pens / free download / markers / printable / Tombow / tombow markers / tombow usa by Tombow USA