Posts Tagged ‘Artist’s Corner’
Artist’s Corner – A Little Inspiration
Tombow takes great pride in providing you with some great tools to create your masterpieces – dual brush pens and drawing pencils to name a few. So, we wanted to take a minute and share with you some places we draw our inspiration from in the hopes that it will inspire you to create your own masterpieces with our products.
And let us know what you’ve created with your Tombow products. We’d love to feature you on an Artist’s Corner in the future. Just comment on this post or post a comment or picture on our Facebook page.
Aja Wells is an illustrator and graphic designer hailing from Hawaii. After deciding she wanted to be an artist when she was four years old, she earned her B.A. in studio art from Humboldt Start University. Currently, Aja is working primarily in the childrens market.
Aja recently 
featured some great drawings of puppies on her blog, created using our dual brush pens on moleskine paper. Remembering using these pens as a child, she picked up three shades of brown to pair with the moleskine color. As Aja says, “The moleskine paper is super thick and perfect for using markers on – there is zero bleed through to the other side.”
Visit Aja’s blog to see more sketches with dual brush pens on moleskine or website to check out more of her work.
We know that Tombow Dual Brush Pens are used in studios, art schools and households around the country. But did you know that they are also a main stay in the cartoon department at Warner Brothers?
At a tradeshow earlier this year, Fred Bode, Warner Brother’s Director of Character Art & Product Development, stopped by our booth to share his love of the Dual Brush Pens for their cartoon animation.
Don’t you like the picture of Bugs Bunny he drew for us?
James L. Foster, Jr. – or Jim – is a self-taught portraiture. Jim has been commissioned for portraits, reproductions, restoration, murals, signage and illustrations for more than 25 years. His work currently includes portraiture in graphite, carbon, charcoal (separate and mixed) and oil on canvas.
Jim is a big fan of the Tombow eraser, which is a huge part of his tool kit.
“I have not found a better drawing instrument than the Tombow. I can’t imagine not having the MONO 2.3 Zero Ultra Fine Eraser among the tools I have.”
Visit Jim’s online gallery to see is breathtaking portraits and check out our Amazon store to see Tombow erasers.
We’re giving you more Manga because we know how much you love it! Last month, you had the chance to read our Tombow Tale about Yumiko and her fantastical Shojo Dual Brush Pen Set. Today, we’d like you to meet the imaginative Hiroshi and his magical Shonen Dual Brush Pen Set. The illustration that accompanies Hiroshi’s Tombow Tale was created by Nate Morris and is featured on the packaging for our Shonen Dual Brush Pen Set.
Be sure to tell us what you think of the story!
Amanda Grazini is a freelance illustrator and teacher at Quanta Academia de Artes based in São Paulo, Brazil. Her avant-garde artwork has been featured in a number of Brazilian exhibits including Fungos na Via Libris, Livraria Pop and Revista Collectiva.
Amanda prefers our Dual Brush Pens for the color variety, which she frequently uses to create sketches. Visit to see Amanda’s website to see her editorial and sketch work.
There is nothing more serene than nature. Our Tombow Dual Brush Landscape Set helps artists capture the tranquil essence of nature in landscape drawings. The set, which comes in a 6- and a 10-pack, features earth tones, variants of green and blue and a blender pen that gives landscape drawings realism.
The featured landscape was created by illustrator Jim Nichols for the Landscape Set packaging.
Whitney Pollett is a freelance illustrator with Disney Interactive Media. With creativity to spare, Whitney’s repertoire features everything from whimsical sketches of Disney fairies to vampy sirens.
Her area of expertise lies in character design, costume design, props, storyboards, textures and environments.
Whitney is a fan of our Dual Brush Pens, particularly the various shades of gray the pens come in, which she uses for sketching. Visit to see Whitney’s website to her amazing artwork.
We promised you a manga illustration and a Tombow Tale in our May 27 post, and that’s exactly what you’re going to get! This illustration, created by Nate Morris, is featured on the packaging for our Shojo Dual Brush Pen Set.
We were so inspired by the illustration that we created a Tombow Tale to tell the story of how this wonderful drawing came to be. Check out the story below and tell us what you think of Yumiko and her magical Shojo Dual Brush Pen Set.
Irina Troitskaya is a freelance illustrator and tutor at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow, Russia. Her artwork has been commissioned by Elle, Afisha, Popular Finances, Kids, Hewlett-Packard, Alfa-Capital, Yandex and BMW – to name a few. Her works are in private collections in Russia, Spain, China, Argentina, USA and United Kingdom.
Irina is a big fan of our Dual Brush Pens, which she frequently uses to do everything from sketching in her notebook to creating priceless pieces of art. Visit Irina’s website to see her editorial, personal and sketch work.
