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| "Saddled Up," ink on paper (crow quill) |
October is gone and with it another month of pen and ink practice. No reason it couldn't/shouldn't continue, so we'll see about that. In the meantime, Inktober turned out to be a productive month of ink work.
As I noted in the beginning, many of my first efforts were done using technical pens (see the first few posts of this seeries). As a review, technical pens have a fixed-diameter point that releases ink well and makes good, dark, uniform lines. In their infancy technical pens were used for technical drawings (when they were done by hand) to allow for excellent, consistent lines. Today of course they're a primary pen for many draftspeople.
I also wanted to practice with the ancient standby, dip pens. To that end I also did a number of works using a crow quill nib--a metal nib that looks like a founatain pen tip (more on that below), but must be dipped into an inkwell or bottle every so often to reload the pen. These old-time pens are difficult to master but allow an enormous variety of line widths and allow the artist or calligrapher to make tapering and swooping lines. I posted several of those previously and "Saddled Up" (above) is another, done with a crow quill and liquid ink.
Finally, I also wanted to work with a fixd-nib fountain pen because liquid ink is most interesting and also requires care in use. These last two were done with an inexpensive medium-nib fountain pen. A fountain pen is certainly more convenient that a simple steel nib since there's no dipping, but the pen I used for these two studies had a nib that was less flexible, so line variations were minimal, even with increased pressure. It may require more searching to find a fountain pen with a tip more suitable for the sort of drawing I favor.
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| "Anchor Chain," fountain pen on papeer |
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| "Scratchy," fountain pen on paper |
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