Hey guys, I hope you guys are doing great. Welcome to the Art of Comics. I'm your host, Andra Salazar. Today I want to talk a little bit about technique and some little hacks. I had this really cool hack that I learned about these little tech pins and how to refill them. So while these are disposable pins, you can refill them and save a few bucks. And if there's one thing I know about being an artist is you get to find ways to do things on cheap because art supplies are not cheap. And why not, right? So it's super simple. I'm going to show you, I'm going to pick out some of the like most popular tech pins. Now I do have the road roadering reputeographs that I like. Those are like the Cadillac. But if you just want something cheap and disposable, my crayons are kind of what a lot of the comic book artists are doing nowadays. So these are super popular. So I've got the micron. I like these here too, these fabric castels. These actually I like better than the micron so you can refill these. And I also will show you the Pentel pin. This is a really fun pin. I highly recommend this one as well. So you can refill all these. So let me just show you as far as the ink to use. I'll tell you what I like to use. I use Repetiograph ink. And I'm sorry that the labels all jacked up. I've just had this forever. So you can use any kind of ND ink on these. It'll be fine. Don't use Copic, you know alcohol based ink. Just use normal ND ink. I love this waterproof Repetiograph refill ink. I got turned on to this by Jean Paulillon, one of my favorite artists. He uses it. And I love his blacks. And I'm actually looking at the piece I have of his on the wall and it's just really cool. So I use this. You can get this on Amazon. Pretty cheap. This is another really good one too. This is Dr. pH Martin's black star. This is a really nice matte. I like matte. Very good one. I don't use Higgins or the magic, you know black magic. None of that junk. But these are two inks I really like. So how do you do this? Pretty simple. You were just going to pop off the top. Get a pair of pliers. And you just put some ink in it. So you go like this. You pop this out. As you see there's a little stem here. And then in here you just pop in some some ink. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to just go like this. And I'm going to just put a drop here. And you're not going to put a lot. Don't go crazy on this. Just put a couple of drops in here. You know. And there's a little sponge in there that that absorbs. So just don't go crazy. Just put a little bit in there. If you put too much it's going to overflow and just go everywhere. So don't go crazy. Okay. So there you go. You pop it in. You're probably back. Wallah. Let it sit for a little bit. Get a going. And then your pin is as good as new. Okay. It's seriously that simple. So these guys are like a couple bucks each. Dude, you can now just refill them. Boo. Yeah. Right. Same thing with this thing. The trick is you just got to pop it open. So here you grab the black. Don't grab the white because this will break. And then your your pin is kind of jacked. The whole point of these is got this kind of flex nib, which is actually really fun. So you just grab it on the black, which is kind of the harder plastic. And it's a little tricky, but you can just grab it here. And you do a little twisty. Hang on. Sorry, I was going the wrong way. You go like that. A little twisty. Boom. Okay. And then you just put your ink right in that hole. There you go. Boom. Pretty simple. There you go. Pop it back. Good as new. Okay. Again, any kind of ink works. Just make sure now these guys, these you got to go from the back. So here, go from the back. And now it looks like you twist it. And I think you do twist it a little bit, but I think you just can pop it. Let me just let me see here. The only problem is if they're really hard, you're going to kind of wear out the plastic a bit. So I'm going to do this one because this one actually needs it. I did the other two already today. So there you go. I'm all about hacks, dude. I'm doing a lot of inking now on my new book, Shingra Law States. And so I need this because I'm using actually this 1.5 for the panel borders. So I'm not going to go crazy. I'm just going to put that much in. And there you go. And so I'm using a Skylar Tech Pins or where it's at. I'm not even a brush. You know, this is it. So pop this guy back in. And there you go. Yeah, look at that mama. Oh yeah. Okay, great. So that's how you do it. Super simple refilling your tech pen. There you go. Art of comics. Go check out my Patreon. If you got a minute, I've got a lot of cool new comics and kind of daily strips. A lot of it is free. 90% of the Patreon is free. So go check out some of my new stuff there. And enjoy. Thanks a lot. Subscribe to the channel. Have a great one, guys. Bye.