Somewhat cranky artist here...
Artist since I was 10 yr old. Mostly drawing post Art College, than painting.
Pencil (earlier-HS), occasionally pen, or brush and ink (earlier-HS), Rapidiographs (HS through ? 80's), colored pencils on colored Canson paper (mid '80's ?mid '90's+), Black cokored pencil on vellum ('80's+), fine line Sakura markers ('00's +), and plain ole Bic black pen ('10s+).
Couldn't draw for around ?18 months mid '90s from a complex set of experiences. Terrible times, but got it all back!
My skills run from good to excellent.
For the past 2 1/2 yrs I've mostly used (after running across it) a fabulous digital art app on my phone. While it has purely B,&W pencil, charcoal, ink "brushes" - I've worked in color 95% of the time w usually paint "brushes" - water color, oil, acrylic.
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So I've rarely picked up a physical pen in this time.
When I have - wow, have my skills dropped! 😔
Most likely several months of re-practicing will get me up to speed; but, oh, soooo frustrating, dispiriting in the mean time!
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mom was a wood carver . inherited the art from here as we had a craft box in the den when wee were kids . i have a fused back. couldnt do the electric wheel and or the kick wheel as one had to be hunched over and mr . back wouldnt let me do that . i gave up and used other means to do cerammics . including pinch, coil or a combination of both. also did tile .