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Goodness, some amazing inky offerings! Mine seems a bit feeble but yer tiz!Oh Tessa, that's amazing, and thank U a very lot!! REally! Now becomes clear to me! pen, pencil, liner, brush, nibs, dip nibs, fountain pens, and and and..... So thank U for help me to know, i can use what i want:) @Robert Jones: i think you mean this, what we say in german: "Tauchfeder" or "Federhalter" or "Glasfeder". Only one thing - has in german three (or more) different descriptions:) you see what i mean:) I think i will buy that "Tauchfeder" (Dip pen!) the old classic way:) so i can show this little piece i've made today with a fineliner?
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Som excellent sketch’s posted already and it’s just a few days old . I love old boats and rusty stuff o I do spend time searching the internet for images , if I like them I sketch the part I like to possibly use at some point . These two old boats are a5 in my a3 roughy sketch pad, normally I use pencil or graphite sticks but decided to use pen for a change
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Tanja - The complication of German is that some words can mean so many things; and dictionaries, and Google (good! Very happy to think they can be wrong) struggle to keep up with changing idioms. "Tauchfeder", which literally means "dip pen" is the word I shall use in future (if called upon to do so...), as you instruct. So you've taught me how to find the Umlaut and s-tzet, AND given me a new word to play with: plus - I do like your fineliner drawing. Success on all fronts, I think.
Paul a) great boats, b) maybe use ink more often, it suits you. I tried to draw boats the other day, and realize I need practice. I did get the masts straight (I think) but the hulls look like beached sperm-whales; a dingy watercolour on rather unsympathetic Arches Rough: I may post it as an example of how not to paint a watercolour - well, we can't win 'em all.
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Thank you Robert for your words. I saw by chance earlier that in the special light, when the evening is falling but it is not yet completely dark - (we say twilight, or dusk) the shine of the metallic watercolors comes into its own, frontally, so that I got a reasonably good photo can make. I hope not to bore you, allow me to show the same picture in twilight here:
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Great stuff here - and Skylar, I had no idea a Rotring Isograph could produce a result like that - oh dear; I'll be dipping into the bank balance again, i can see that..
Now, a word of praise I forgot to utter earlier - in re Fiona's drawing with walnut ink on the 1st page of this thread. I like that a lot, and it's a march away from pen and ink applied in that very precise cross-hatching way (not that there's anything wrong with that - I had a book by the cartoonist known as "Wash": sold it, can't find it anywhere now. He was of the Fougasse ink artist generation - who is also hard to find. Both of them used Indian ink with brushes, but Wash's book - as I remember - also showed the hatching technique. There are plenty of others, though).
Now, Things They Do Not Tell You: they probably do, but I'd missed the information. A recent convert to drawing with fountain pens rather than dips with Indian ink, I didn't know that Hong Dian ink, used in their cartridges, is VERY soluble in water; or that Sailor ink, also supplied in cartridges, is not, nor is their brush pen ink. I don't know if it might help anyone else to know that, but if it does, well - now I've told you.
It's quite important to me, because I used always to do my ink drawing - with Kandahar or acrylic ink - and then add washes with Lamp Black watercolour or Chinese ink. Well, I can save a bit of time, and gain perhaps a slightly more consistent result, just using the right fountain pen and ink. Would it help if I showed a comparison sheet under the Drawing header? If so, when it's dry - I did a test for my own information - I'll scan it and pop it on.