Comments on: Ask Drawn: White Ink

By: danny

danny — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:34:19 +0000

Thanks so much for this question, Matt, and all you folks who’ve responded. Went to buy some FW White yesterday (available even in Australia, where we mostly forced to work with burnt sticks) and it’s great stuff.

By: flameape

flameape — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:08:00 +0000

fw and WN are good products- my particular favorite flowing, ink-like white is liquid golden acrylic titanium white. it also depends on what kind of correction or effect you need. if i need to “re-surface” the area- like redraws, i use white gesso, so there is a surface more like paper. but in the end, i just use one of my tubes of white acrylic and water it down in a dish or what have you for quick fixes. or photoshop.

By: janine

janine — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:57:34 +0000

I use a pentel fine and ultra fine point correction pen. Am I cruising for trouble? Please don’t kill me…It’s so opaque and with staedtler and sakura pens you can draw over and over and over again.

By: marsdencartoons

marsdencartoons — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:27:34 +0000

My personal favorite: Winsor & Newton Designer’s Gouache Permanent White.

By: dbclemons

dbclemons — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:24:36 +0000

I’d recommend Holbein’s Aeroflash ink. It’s desinged for airbrush, but works with pens too. It’s acrylic based similar to FW. Don’t let it dry on the nib. I use cheap bamboo pens with it. There’s another brand by Schmincke called Aerocolor.

I’d also second ebelg’a recommendation of using scratchboard. Claybord is white or black, and with the white you just lay down more ink.

By: fabulousrice

fabulousrice — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:52:06 +0000

White out. Also Robert Crumb’s choice.

By: carolitajohnson

carolitajohnson — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:15:15 +0000

regarding the lid to the jar of Pro White! lid? what lid? Don’t even bother putting the lid back on. I haven’t seen my lid for years! you don’t need it. Use a spray bottle to wet the top when you want to start melting it down for your purposes. You have more control over it that way.

By: rayok

rayok — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:38:52 +0000

I have a jar of Pentel poster color for artist in white, it takes a few coats to be completely opaque, and applied with a brush. It seems to work the same as W&N bleed proof white.

Otherwise I use a white milky gel pen when I’m lazy. :D

By: 2ack

2ack — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:06:02 +0000

I use copic opaque white, FW white acrylic ink and Luma bleed proof white.

By: ebelga

ebelga — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:14:02 +0000

what about a white clayboard (or scrapperboard)? there is a layer of thin white clay that you can reach down by scrapping it… for the inks works looks like a nice solution to me. (i’ll keep trying on the english lessons :))