Hi, everyone, and welcome back in our lessons on drafting tools. And in this one I'm going to talk about the drafting pen. This is a superior quality drafting pen used in architectural and landscape design architecture. Later on in the course, I'll be pointing out to develop some patents that are very inexpensive, easy to work with, especially for you as a beginner, but you have to have a real high quality work. So you're going to want eventually to have these technical drawing pens. So I have set of these pens and they will also tell you the sizes on them.

So this one is for example, point 18 point 25. This one's point 35. Sorry, point 35 and point 50. And they're also color coded. They go from the finest to the thickness, how to work with them. So they basically to work on gravity that they're not just like ballpoint pens.

So you always want to hold them straight, just like this. And you can also change the reservoir when you run out of ink. So you always have to keep them clean, and there will also be instructions included on how to use them and how to take care of them. The one thing that I don't really like about rotating pins is that they smudge very easily. So when you actually drawing like this, as I said, very straight up, you have to be careful where you're actually moving your ruler. So if you would go through it, it would you would smudge the whole working sheet.

So therefore I prefer to use those, as I said, inexpensive, very easy to use belts and pens. with them, you can do different lines, different thicknesses as well. And they don't smudge. So I use that. Also a Sharpie pen. So once you get the hint of how to use and how to work these pens, you might like them and you might like how the work actually look, it looks quite neat and tidy.

So learn how to use them. Don't be afraid of it. We're doing hand drafting now. I'm sure you will want to go down the line of using maybe cut program later on. But this is really a good place to start to really understand how these work. So anyways, that's the gist of how to work with technical pens, and I'll see you in the next lesson.