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Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair

Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair

  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
  • Kuretake Zig Cartoonist Menso Brush - Small - Kolinsky Hair - KURETAKE CNJT100-3
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DescriptionSpecificationsQuestions & Answers (1)
This natural-hair Menso brush is designed specifically for drawing fine, flexible lines, making it perfect for detail work like facial structures. Kolinsky sable hair offers superior strength, slenderness, and resiliency.

Product Specifications

Model NumberKURETAKE CNJT100-3
ManufacturerKuretake
Body Color Burgundy
Body Material Wood
Brush Shape Round (Menso)
Brush Size Small
Diameter - Max 6.0 mm
Ferrule Material Wood
Grip Color Burgundy
Handle Type Short
Size - Length 19.9 cm / 7.8 inches
Tip Length 2.1 cm / 0.8 inches
Tip Material Natural Hair (Kolinsky)

Customer Reviews

Really fun tool for inking...
April 29, 2015
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Really fun tool for inking and drawing with India ink. Kolinsky hairs are quite responsive and allow you to easily control the width of your strokes with slight pressure changes of your drawing hand. Would make a fun addition to your manga or comic inking kit once you are ready to tackle inking tasks with bottled ink and a real pointed brush. If all you care about is its performance, you should know that this brush would give you the greatest control over your mark making and allow you to make the finest brush strokes. It can make a variety of brush strokes and line thicknesses. You can get pretty thin lines with a light touch, and fairly bold strokes by pressing down on the brush head.I think this Menso brushes would make a fun addition to your manga making kit. It was pretty easy to draw and sketch with the Kolisnky brush in particular given its flexibility, resilience, and ink load capacity.
15 people found this helpful
This is a POWERFUL brush...
October 7, 2015
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This is a POWERFUL brush that can get a wide range of line weight. You can flat a piece with thick strokes or get hair-thin details. It also has a huge capacity to hold ink for a long time, so make sure you don't use an ink that dries too quickly. Due to the nearly 1" long bristles and flexibility of the Kolinsky hair, this brush can be difficult to control if you're not already used to brush inking for art. I would not recommend this to artists just dabbling with comic inking, but highly recommend it for seasoned artists who have a steady hand and excellent pressure control with their tools. It's excellent for controlled lines, and even great for sketching, but I recommend it for larger drawings on paper no smaller than A5.

Be sure to take care of this brush and don't let the ink fill it all the way to the base of the brush or else it will be hard to clean out!
12 people found this helpful
thirdpotato
This brush outperforms...
February 13, 2016
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This brush outperforms the Windsor & Newton Series 7 no. 0. [Not the number 2, which I have yet to compare with the Menso Brush.] When I first used the Menso brush, the results were disappointing. But after months of monomaniacal of the exercises from pages 19 and 20 from Gary Martin's "The Art of Comic Book Inking," I was no longer making an utter fool of myself, and was able to advance to a level of mastery where it can be left to other artists to cringe on one's behalf (in German the word for this is Fremdenscham). I did have to purchase two. If you purchase brushes sight unseen, this often becomes necessary, even with the best of brushes. If the brush does not come to a point when wet, return it. In some cases the brush comes to too thin a point, meaning there are too few surrounding, supporting brush hairs to maintain the line. Such brushes produce zigzags instead of thin lines. But one of my Menso brushes is just right, and can produce hair thin lines without creating an uneven ripple on one side of the line. I do not have this control with the Windsor & Newton Series 7 no. 0, which is a smaller brush. This is counterintuitive, but there you are. The brush works well with Yasutomo Black Sumi ink. These brushes should be cleaned after every use. Other commenters expressed concern about ink in the plastic ferrule. The technique for cleaning this is to dab some mild dish detergent onto the brush. This will draw out the ink. That's a secret from The Art Student's League, where my father once taught, revealed here at tremendous risk to myself.
13 people found this helpful
I M Flaud
The brush hand is long...
July 31, 2015
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The brush hand is long but very light and well balanced in the hand. Hairs come to a fantastic razor tip with good spring-back. Excellent for fine-line detail painting.
6 people found this helpful
A very nice brush. I...
June 28, 2016
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A very nice brush. I use it over pencil sketches with Noodlers black ink. The brush would respond slightly better using a good India ink. Even so, for now that's all I use.

It puts down a very thin line if you have the hand to do this. I also use a mapping pen that can't get that fine. It will flatten out too, and put some serious ink down in one wide pull if you need that.

I also have a WN series 7 #2, and I can't tell you which one I like best.
3 people found this helpful
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