Comments about Princeton Snap! Golden Taklon Brushes:

For a handmade brush that's within this price range, you can't go wrong with these Snap! brushes, however, it can go wrong depending on what you want to do with it. Specifically I was looking for #2 Round brushes for comic inking,and Princeton offered these in White or Gold taklon. Unlike natural bristles, india ink will inevitably seep upward into the ferrule, of course with some brush cleaner this will be nullfied. The gold #2 is smaller than the white taklon, can hold a dead-weight line but also make cursive lines easier (for me anyway, I like to have a brush that needs more pressure to vary line weight), and is able to, with practice, end a line with a point. Aside from slight brush characteristics, these brushes hold the about the same amount of ink as the white synthetics. Get this brush if you don't want to invest heavily yet in a Kolinksy-sable brush.

Comments about Princeton Snap! Golden Taklon Brushes:

I bought one of these on a whim at the Blick store - they were on sale and I was amazed at the price, since they felt really nice. Used the #12 round at watercolor class today, and very impressed by how well the brush handled. Nice flow and came back to a point every time. Usually brushes this cheap shed or are scratchy - this is more like higher end brushes, handling and performing the same as brushes I have costing 3 times the price! I will definitely be going back to get more of these.