Showing posts with label art supplies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art supplies. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 February 2008

ShinHan Touch Twin Markers

Listen up, marker fiends!ShinHan Touch Twin Markers are the cheapest professional markers you can find here in Korea. Most likely because they are made here.

They come in a vast assortment of colors. You can buy various sized pre-arranged packs of colors. But everyone knows that the real fun is in picking out your own colors. If you don't know much about different colors, it's fun to just pick ones with names that you can easily learn. For example, pick food related colors: potato brown, lemon yellow, mint green, ice blue, fruit pink, chocolate.


They have two sides: one fine and the other broad.


These markers can often be spotted on the desks of Korean animation people. Storyboarder, Park Min uses bold colors in his storyboard work. He also uses them in his personal sketchbook. Here is a wonderful example borrowed from his blog.

You can easily find these markers in art supply or stationery stores in Korea. You can also find them at the
Shinhan Art website.


Have you ever tried this marker out? What do you think?

By the way, there is actually a cheaper brand. Alpha Plus Twin Markers (pictured above) are an even older and cheaper Korean brand of markers you can find straggling around art stores sometimes. Unfortunately, their poorly designed caps can easily damage the marker tips. Too bad!

Thursday, 17 January 2008

Cover Your Sleeves and More!

What's that you've got on your arms, Jeong Eun?
Aha! You are covering your nice long sleeve shirt. I guess your job as key animator can get pretty messy. Those sleeve covers sure must come in handy!

I bought a pair of those on the street. I guess I've been using them wrong.

I guess they are not fashionable leg warmers.

Or milk jug cosies either.

They sure worked well as tangerine dispensers.

And they really did spruce up that battery-powered dancing toy that got kind of boring.

I guess you can use them however you want. I wonder how people in other parts of the world use them?

Saturday, 8 December 2007

The Magic Crayons

Hey, Jeong Eun! What's in that box you are holding?

Kablam!
Wow!!! Those look magic! What are they?
Cool! They look like mechanical crayons that you can twist to draw with. I bet they never run out! And I bet they are great when you need a unique drawing tool.

Can you draw me something using them, please? Please?
Hey, that's too cool! Is that the dog from some anime or something? That girl reminds me of you! Great drawing!

Now that I think about it, I think it's not the crayons that are magic. I think it's you!

Saturday, 24 November 2007

Prize Time!

IT'S PRIZE TIME!!!Chaek bachims are so cool that while at the Animation Museum in Chuncheon, I picked up some to give away as prizes. They feature Hobani, the Chuncheon city mascot who is reflective of the city's abundant bodies of water.Hobani can be found all over the city, such as in these really cool nonprizes above.
You can also spot him in these temporary tattoos that I'll throw in as well. I have 5 prizes to give to the first 5 people to post in the comments section. If you have a blog, it would be really cool if you offered this same sort of prize giveaway on yours.

Good luck!

Friday, 23 November 2007

The Art Book Man

Art book man
Art book man
Selling books from
The States and Japan
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Wanders in
Quite Dapper
Some of his books
Still in their wrapper
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I have heard
Not best deals
For this mobile
Small bookstore on wheels
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Can you please
Lend a hand?
Does he visit
Your far away land?

Tuesday, 13 November 2007

Chaek Bachim - The Sketchbooker's Hero

Do you ever draw draw or ink something and it seeps through to the next page of your sketchbook? Or do press really hard and leave a dent in the next page?

Well fret no more! Here come the chaek bachim to save the day! Chaek bachims are a great invention for sketchbookers around the world!
Oh no! Not the chaek bachim!! Once they put themselves between these pages, we won't be able to mess up all the pages underneath!!!! Argh!


Chaek bachim (pronounced 'check pacheem') are typically made of plastic. They come in many designs and sizes. The one on the left is from the Osaka Tezuka Manga Museum in Takarazuka, Japan. The well used one on the right features the Chuncheon city mascot and is from the Animation Museum here in Korea. Sometimes they are given to kids as part of a promotion. Students mostly use them in their notebooks since they are said to improve penmanship.

Do they use these in your part of the world?