Learn to do calligraphy with a brush pen

“I’ll be honest with you: I have a pretty big ego when it comes to art. I watched the first of the “Getting Started with Brush Pens” videos where Lindsey gives you the run down on brush pens. Then, I poo-pooed the others, assuming I could figure out the mystery that is brush pens via just the worksheets. And boy, was I wrong! On the bright side, my downstrokes looked decent. However, my upstrokes were broken and shaky, and my hand felt awkward.”

“When I started to get frustrated, I revisited the videos to watch Lindsey’s hand glide across the page to magically produce some flawless character. There’s a beautiful moment in one of the videos where Lindsey says, “… you may want to stop here and collect yourself”. That was kind of great because her voice came out of my outrageously loud computer speakers right as I was gritting my teeth, death-gripping the brush pen in a rage.”

“The first experience I had with brush pens were watercolour brush pens with an extremely flexible tip. I thought they were standard brush pens and that my experience with them was the standard brush pen experience. [...] needless to say my experience with these pens wasn't so good.”