I haven't touched a gel-pen in over twenty years. I bought 68 pens of varies colors the other day, to get my money's worth you will be seeing a lot of gel pen drawings...hahaha

I decided to do a series of butterfly line drawings with my new gel pens. I'm keeping the drawing simple, butterflies and flowers are perfect.

I blended the colors on the butterfly and outlined the flowers in opaque white gel pens. The leaves and flowers I outlined with varies colors, keeping everything simple. I added a pink transparent color on top of the white because the black absorbs all colors. I had to do this with all the transparent colors; it's true, black absorbs all colors.

I used white charcoal pencil and drew simple outlines. The charcoal is easily rubbed away once the subjects are outlined, so simple and fun!

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After intense research and development, Sakura was first to market with the invention of gel inks in 1984. Sakura has continued to master gel ink technology offering a variety of colors, opaqueness and special effects. Today, Sakura Gelly Roll® pens come in medium and fine point Classic gel ink, Metallic, sparkly Stardust®, dual color Silver Shadow® and Gold Shadow®, and bright and creamy Moonlight®.