I found a gel pen at a dollar store that changes color as you use it

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tfoust10 on March 18th, 2021 at 16:01 UTC »

Found it at 5 Below. It is called a "Swirl Pen". It came in a pack of 20 pens. 10 of them were fruit scented and the other 10 were the swirly kind. I would say that about 1/3 did not work but it was worth it for the pens that did.

If you are interested in drawing in this style, I have a timelapse posted here

Edit: I posted this about a yr ago on another sub but I am posting it today bc someone else posted it as their own work and I am not cool with that.

Edit 2: Holy crap. I was not expecting this response. Maybe I should make the higher quality version an NFT (If I could ever figure that out)

jergerberr on March 18th, 2021 at 16:58 UTC »

Can I ask, where did you start when you set out on this piece of art. Like do you start in the middle or?

NeedsMoreTuba on March 18th, 2021 at 17:17 UTC »

Did you know that those have existed since the late 90's? I totally had some.

Gelly Roll(?) made a pastel "rainbow" gel pen that changed colors as you wrote, but since they were the first gel pens ever, they weren't as cool as this. I could *maybe* find an example of something that I wrote with it. If you used black paper, you could kind of see the color changes.