Extra Fine Dual Point Tria Art Marker

So I've been doing a lot of story boarding recently and in an effort to sharpen up my drawing skills I've switched from using a pencil to a pen. The only problem has been it's much harder to do even fills with a pen than a pencil, so I needed a fat marker, too. But I hate carrying around more junk than I need, and most of the art markers out there have two or more points (prismacolor, tria, copic) but none of them have a point fine enough to do real line work. What's an art director to do? Hack a tria of course...

Step 1 Materials

For the Marker:
-One Tria marker of your color preference
-One Staedler Triplus Fineliner of the same or similar color

Tools:
-A small chisel (I used an 1/8" Marples)
-A jewelers / hack / scroll saw
-A pair of needle nose pliers

Why a Tria Marker? Yes, you can buy fine nibs for Copic markers, but my art store doesn't carry them. Yes a lot of people like prismacolors. I used a tria marker because I found that of the three the tree showed stroke overlapping the least as well as bled the least. Could you use this hack with other markers? Sure.

Comments

[fancypenguin845]

omg im like obsessed wit pens and drawing... im gonna try this
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[theRIAA]

those "Staedler Triplus Fineliner" pens look nice, I might get some of those for general writing. my pilot v5s have been letting me down, and I want something even sharper than a .5 pencil line. i need to get a jewelers saw to...

[GorillazMiko]

Smart idea!
I have never seen those pens before, but it seems like a great idea, I always use Extra fine pens for my notes, and I REALLY small, so it looks really cool.

_{The writing is smaller than this! Well, they're about the same.}