We are focusing on our Stina Jones's strange but adorable character creations this month. The box's supplies include Stylefile Brush Markers, a Zig Cartoonist Mangaka 05, a Mangaka Flexible Marker Fine Pen, a Stabilo All Surface Pencil, a Cretacolor Monolith and Canson Bristol Paper. Experiment with expressive, grey line work and bold highlights of colour, to create a captivating character of your own.
Stina Jones is an illustrator and graphic designer from Manchester, UK, creating fun character artworks for a range of applications – from small scale prints and digital graphics, through to large scale murals and installations.
Stina’s sketchbooks are filled with strange characters conjured from the make-believe worlds of her imagination, in a style that uses a combination of bold minimalist line work and greyscale fills with the odd splash of colour.
Instagram: @stina_jones Facebook: SJ.Illustration Twitter: @stina_jones
Explore your creative conscious and use the inspirations provided to create your very own strange creature and test these graphic markers.
This versatile alcohol based marker is equipped with both chisel and brush nibs, making it the perfect marker for colouring large areas as well as those more detailed spots, thanks to the line variation produced by the flexible brush-like rubber tip!
Ultra-fine detail markers with smooth flowing black ink that’s perfect for outlining your drawings. The water-based pigment ink is also smudge-proof with watercolours and alcohol-based markers once dry.
Using the same smudge-proof black ink this marker has a flexible fine point tip that produces thin and thick lines, making it an essential tool for any artist.
An all-purpose marking chinagraph pencil that works on almost any surface. The high-quality pigment creates strong saturated marks perfect for adding those important highlights to bring your work to life.
A solid cylinder of graphite wrapped in the thinnest lacquer coating. Thrilling artists with its ability to create broad and fine strokes in a single stroke.
This paper has an extra smooth, strong, clean white, acid-free surface perfect for using with markers.
The Mangaka Flexible Marker's nib is REALLY flexible, it lets you draw really thin to medium lines. It quickly became my go-to pen when inking pretty much anything.
The brush markers are pretty good too: the light gray is probably too light, but the dark one is great when you need to fill a black shape but don't want to use a *full* black.
AS USUAL ON TIME AND PERFECT
This box was really good and had high quality markers and pens. However, i felt the greys were too similar to have them both, and hoped there could have been a black marker in there or another blue. The brush tip fine-liner was extremely good and is very useful. There could have perhaps been more paper.
I‘ve wanted to improve my art skills since high school so, now that I have the time, I searched YouTube for inspiration and found Kasey Golden and Rin at DrwaingWiffWaffles, both so down to earth and kooky about their skills. They got me drawing & painting and discovering other styles and equipment. They also led me to subscription boxes of which ScrawlrBox was the best for me as I live in the UK. I chose April 2019 as my first order because the featured artist, Stina Jones, is based in Manchester - my hometown. Also because the set included Stylefile brush markers, a metal pencil and a black fineliner - all resonated with advice from KG & Waffles. And with a lot of nervous thought I plunged into creating the piece of art attached. Scary but fun. So much fun! Thanks ScrawlrBox.
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