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My mother likes to color, though she's kind of annoyed that every adult coloring book seems to be overcomplicated/psychedelic, while simpler coloring books all seem to be made for kids, and you wind up with nothing but Marvel comics or My Little Pony.



Sahuagin posted...

Why aren't these seen as more standard? Rather than sort of a childish/girly thing to do? These are must-have.

Probably because the average person has literally no reason to even own 2 colors to write with, let alone dozens.

I've been doing a lot of brainstorming/note-taking for a D&D game I'm running soon and the most I ever used at any given time was 4 (black, blue, red, green). I didn't even have to dip into the purple pen I have. And I'm fully aware that even that much is pretty far down the scale of common application - I'm an outlier of an outlier. Someone who needed a dozen different colors or more would be even more so.

Most people today - if they're using actual writing implements at all (and not just using a phone/computer for everything they write) - are fine with 1 or 2 colors, tops (usually black and red). And for people who want more, there are always those 4-color pens that pretty much everyone owned at some point as a kid:

http://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/wc-prod-pim/JPEG_1000x1000/BI80186712_B_bic_4_colour_retractable_ballpoint_pens_12_pack.jpg

It's also worth noting that, for anyone who DOES want multicolor, pens can still handle that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel_pen#Inks



Sahuagin posted...

Trying to draw a map in the game I'm playing and needed colors for 6+ different faction borders

Obligatory "What game were you playing?" question here.

Also, I feel like, if I was ever playing a game where I needed to draw complex maps, AND I needed to diagram 6+ factions, I might just stop drawing it in pen entirely and just switch to MS Paint, which has an ample palette of colors and brush/tip types to choose from.

That's basically how I drew settlement trade route maps for Fallout 4 - opened a world map picture in MS Paint that showed all the settlements, then drew colored lines between them to indicate which settlement was sending traders to where, so I could easily assign jobs once I started weaving a network together.
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