Resurrected thanks to Cyberduck and my memory which occasionally works. Here you go, Don!
Yes, we have enough music-nibbed pens to assign one to each color in Diamine’s music ink box. Diamine’s music ink collection has ten colors, each named after a classical composer. Most inks show off their characteristics better in wide-nibbed pens. These samples were made by dipping the nibs into the ink bottles, so the first …
Notebooks and paper are to pens what inhaling is to exhaling. I have my reliables: Kokuyo Campus (not the localized version, which has lesser-quality paper), Midori MD, Daler-Rowney Ivory. Kokuyo Campus lined notebook refills are locally available. My suitcase is heavy with notebooks every time I come back from Singapore. I wish I could find …
A little late posting it to the blog, I know. 🙂 For the curious, I used a Lumix DMC-LX7 to shoot, iMovie to edit.
The Piccolo is possibly Nakaya's best-known canvas for its unique aesthetic. It has been made to look like stone, lacquered to evoke ancient tea ware, covered in sumi and carved with dragons. There are Piccolos with skulls, Piccolos engraved with twining vines and flowers, light pink Piccolos, demon-studded Piccolos, Piccolos sprinkled with iridescent butterflies. Machining …
Valentine’s Day is coming up, so I thought I’d have fun with pairs. A heavy metal pair. A hardworking pair. A sentimental pair. A your-pen-is-nothing-without-us pair. A who-cares-if-there’s-no-ink pair. A separated-at-birth pair. A pair of seasoned travelers. A sunshine pair. A pair fit to be tied. My favorite pair.
Cotton swabs let you see how an ink spreads itself on paper, and also thins out the color so you can better see hue and tone. If you’re testing colors, you might as well have fun. These swabs are round on one end and pointy on the other — twice the fun potential! Many friends …
This was easy to dismiss as a cutesy pen until I wrote and drew with it. Verdict? Not bad. Kalina, who tweets as @geminica, found it unpredictableĂ‚Â in a review over at Pen Addict— that’s probably why I like it. I’ve yet to try the Tombow Fudenosuke. The Cocoiro is a little adventure packed into a …
It can’t be denied that many have tried but there’s no pen like a Big Red. That ball-ended clip was certainly hip on a pen that was both Big and Red. It was truly a prize, a nib of that size; it could only be a Big Red. A Christmas tree feed is just what …
To answer this question from Todd (who tweets asĂ‚Â togotooner), I drew as fast as I could with different nibs. The Platinum music nib was the easiest to draw quickly with. It was also the one that had the least line variation. The 1.5 mm Pilot Parallel pen was easier to draw with than the 2.4 …