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Doodled this with Scrawlerbox November 2019's stuff... I called the box's content as "back to school" because to me it was and not nesessary in a good way. Most of the box's stuff was decent. I was wondering when I saw Bic's pens that do they still make those. I haven't really seen them around here since 90's but apparently they still make them. Ink's been improved greatly from the 90's but shape hasn't changed. Back in 90's Bic's ink used to be rather clocced and dry. It definetelly didn't glide smoothly on any paper. Not without leaving skidmarks and lumps here and there. -Yay, doodle and and write witht hat... Yay... Goodness for whoever intented gel ink technology. It improved things a lot. Though while i complain about Bic's pens... the actual pen barrel... I did some pen surgery on all 3 of them and I would have put Oxford one under same process but the * had too long core barrel and I couldn't just go snip it off from where I had needed because then I had gotten ink everywhere. -Then again when I replaced nibs back on I did get ink everywhere anyway. -I'm pretty sure that my co-workers have already gotten custom to my quirks and me being week with hands color of mostly in pink ink were nothing new.

Why I had to switch ink cores into other pen barrels. My had hurt when I tried to use them. I really am not picky with pens but there is thing called you know what pens you can held without that your hand cramps. With Oxford it was just fingers couldn't really get good enough grip from the slick bugger. With Bic's it was that they were too thin for me whole arm to held it comfortably enough. Probably some traumas in muscle memory from the days fo cloggled ink... So I put them in other pens and could carry on fine.

But what really sent me to back to school was that Jottbook sketchbook/notebook/school's subject notebook. It was the paper.... Back when I was in 1-9 grades most books were printed on this rubbery feeling smooth paper that got super sticky if it got wet if you got soaked when you got home from school.... It was that thing where you soon learned lot of things....

1. Don't press pencil on paper too hard because you will have same thing you just wrote on the page but it to show up not just copied but also well etched on pages after it.

2. Always make sure your eraser is clean.... and it's those solid white erasers. Why? Any other eraser you had smeared the pencil all across the workbook. Same thing if that solid white eraser wasn't clean and goddammit did it got dirty.

3. Don't let your school books get wet

4. You were sure that people who had made subjects; use color pencils to color plant and whatever in 3rd and 4th grade work books had to be insane. Especially when schools hobbied giving these color pencils that were this crossbred abomination of wax and rubber. -Or it certainly felt so when coloring with them and expecially with on that rubbery paper...

I'm pretty sure that those textbooks had made awesome papier mache because of that "paper quality" Also some text books were printed on that paper.

Was Jottbook like that? Oh yes. Son of bitch managed to dig all these childhood traumas about shitty text book papers back in a flash. It was actucally worse because pages were thinner paper than those nightmarish work books at school :''D Try to guess were the pages transparent. :'D And If paper is very thin, you bet you can well see through it. Pencils given actually did leave a mark but paper had excatly same issue as school book paper; press it too hard and you get the etching effect occure. Color pencils... they really weren't that hoorrays on the paper but at least they stick... at least first two layers sticked.... after that though... you know, not just color pencil's pigment is enough on its own but it does need good enough paper. This... wasn't good enough paper for it. However... it was ok enough for most fineliners that I had and for Bic and Oxfor for example. It was also ok enough for fountain pens. Of course it wasn't ok for markers, markes bled through.

What... had to try things on it because they gave this nightmarish notebook to sketch with and it had 59 pages and had to fill it with something. Well... technically just half of that because you only can draw on one page because it will see through... and in some cases bleed through or bulge out depending how you draw and with what you draw. I have a feeling that if drawing at back of pages as well, there had been that good ol smearing happening. Btw, I did use fixative on pencil doodles. So, remember to protect your pencil drawings from smearing. So doodled there pen's body parts, bjd body, did pen and marker swaps and tests, wrote about discoveries.

One thing that was good in Jottbook was that as it's binded, not glued or stapled, it opened flat. It's really good property for any sketchbook. So at least they got that part right... I really hope that I don't never get these notebooks again. :'D

And this thing here is best doodle of the whole notebook.

It had pencil sketch, lots of pen sketching and some details with colored pencils.

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Doodled this with Scrawlerbox November 2019's stuff... I called the box's content as "back to school" because to me it was and not nesessary in a good way. Most of the box's stuff was decent. I was wondering when I saw Bic's pens that do they still make those. I haven't really seen them around here since 90's but apparently they still make them. Ink's been improved greatly from the 90's but shape hasn't changed. Back in 90's Bic's ink used to be rather clocced and dry. It definetelly didn't glide smoothly on any paper. Not without leaving skidmarks and lumps here and there. -Yay, doodle and and write witht hat... Yay... Goodness for whoever intented gel ink technology. It improved things a lot. Though while i complain about Bic's pens... the actual pen barrel... I did some pen surgery on all 3 of them and I would have put Oxford one under same process but the * had too long core barrel and I couldn't just go snip it off from where I had needed because then I had gotten ink everywhere. -Then again when I replaced nibs back on I did get ink everywhere anyway. -I'm pretty sure that my co-workers have already gotten custom to my quirks and me being week with hands color of mostly in pink ink were nothing new.

Why I had to switch ink cores into other pen barrels. My had hurt when I tried to use them. I really am not picky with pens but there is thing called you know what pens you can held without that your hand cramps. With Oxford it was just fingers couldn't really get good enough grip from the slick bugger. With Bic's it was that they were too thin for me whole arm to held it comfortably enough. Probably some traumas in muscle memory from the days fo cloggled ink... So I put them in other pens and could carry on fine.

But what really sent me to back to school was that Jottbook sketchbook/notebook/school's subject notebook. It was the paper.... Back when I was in 1-9 grades most books were printed on this rubbery feeling smooth paper that got super sticky if it got wet if you got soaked when you got home from school.... It was that thing where you soon learned lot of things....

1. Don't press pencil on paper too hard because you will have same thing you just wrote on the page but it to show up not just copied but also well etched on pages after it.

2. Always make sure your eraser is clean.... and it's those solid white erasers. Why? Any other eraser you had smeared the pencil all across the workbook. Same thing if that solid white eraser wasn't clean and goddammit did it got dirty.

3. Don't let your school books get wet

4. You were sure that people who had made subjects; use color pencils to color plant and whatever in 3rd and 4th grade work books had to be insane. Especially when schools hobbied giving these color pencils that were this crossbred abomination of wax and rubber. -Or it certainly felt so when coloring with them and expecially with on that rubbery paper...

I'm pretty sure that those textbooks had made awesome papier mache because of that "paper quality" Also some text books were printed on that paper.

Was Jottbook like that? Oh yes. Son of bitch managed to dig all these childhood traumas about shitty text book papers back in a flash. It was actucally worse because pages were thinner paper than those nightmarish work books at school :''D Try to guess were the pages transparent. :'D And If paper is very thin, you bet you can well see through it. Pencils given actually did leave a mark but paper had excatly same issue as school book paper; press it too hard and you get the etching effect occure. Color pencils... they really weren't that hoorrays on the paper but at least they stick... at least first two layers sticked.... after that though... you know, not just color pencil's pigment is enough on its own but it does need good enough paper. This... wasn't good enough paper for it. However... it was ok enough for most fineliners that I had and for Bic and Oxfor for example. It was also ok enough for fountain pens. Of course it wasn't ok for markers, markes bled through.

What... had to try things on it because they gave this nightmarish notebook to sketch with and it had 59 pages and had to fill it with something. Well... technically just half of that because you only can draw on one page because it will see through... and in some cases bleed through or bulge out depending how you draw and with what you draw. I have a feeling that if drawing at back of pages as well, there had been that good ol smearing happening. Btw, I did use fixative on pencil doodles. So, remember to protect your pencil drawings from smearing. So doodled there pen's body parts, bjd body, did pen and marker swaps and tests, wrote about discoveries.

One thing that was good in Jottbook was that as it's binded, not glued or stapled, it opened flat. It's really good property for any sketchbook. So at least they got that part right... I really hope that I don't never get these notebooks again. :'D

And this thing here is best doodle of the whole notebook.

It had pencil sketch, lots of pen sketching and some details with colored pencils.