Made a new ink drawing of the Card Players today using only my Kuratake brush pens. One leaked black ink all over my hands (too much heat, perhaps?) and the other had almost run out of ink, leaving me with a dry brush effect. Noticed that in my sketch I made one of the men a bit too tall. And in the end, I couldn’t get a thin enough line out of either brush so I resorted to using my Copic 0.1 liner to do some of the cross hatching/shading in the background. It was fun to do something a little different this afternoon.

The Card Players – revisited in 2026