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smilingbeef:
Hey guys, I was wondering if some of you could help settle a debate between my wife and I.  I've been doing a webcomic for a few months and recently started up a little side project called Animals Have Problems Too.  In it, I draw animals with problems (pretty simple, I know).

The problem is my wife thinks I should use a fine point sharpie (as evidinced in "Snake with Dude Teeth") and I like it better using a Pilot G2 (all the other ones).  I dig the rougher, less cartoony style of the G2, but I can see why she likes the sharpie for clarity.  Let me know what you think.

Druid:
I like the G2.
I think there are Extra Fine and an Ultra fine sharpies that may be a good compromise between the two.
I like the Extra fine sharpies just for labeling things; they seem to be clearer.

jeph:
This is a pretty cute idea!

I like the heavier line weight as well, but mainly because it's smoother-looking. You could achieve the same effect with the thinner pen by drawing big and shrinking the images down before publishing them.

smilingbeef:
the biggest problem at the moment (i hope) is i don't have a scanner and am using a pretty old digital camera to get the images on the computer.  That leads to a lot of cleanup, and sometimes the lines get lost in translation.  the good news is my wife works for a nonprofit that inexplicably has computer equipment donated all the time, so i'm going to get a scanner from them in a few days. thanks for the comments!

Sideways:
I'm afraid that you and your wife are both wrong.

You should be using these:

Brush pens

They cost about $4 per pen (CDN$) and are the best pens I've ever worked with.

If you're going to work in a non-digital format, these pens are the way to go.

They also have finer point pens, and graphics pens (surf the site).

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