Ballpoint pens are standardized, which means they are everywhere, they dry quickly and are very cheap... If you want to write without exhaustion, you just have to buy a better quality pen and better quality paper... simple
I dont really mind drawing digitally. I like it because of its flexibility when making mistakes but I do believe it is very niche. While we gain the ability to undo mistakes, we don't have the same texfure or feeling when drawing, coloring, or painting on paper. I dont think theres a wrong or right way, but just a way.
Nice thumbnail! That's how I feel about it too. I don't like the idea that I need electricity just to look at my drawings. And there's just something magical about turning a blank piece of paper into a work of art using nothing but a pencil.
during 2020 (the classic pandemic switchover) i completely switched over to digital, and lost all of my traditional skills in the process since yeah, it was the most fast and accessible method i came to your same conclusion and hit that stone wall maybe about 2 years ago? as a way to recover from art block, i’ve been doodling in my old 2020 sketchbook, and genuinely its so much more enjoyable. i believe it’s purely because theres no expectations that comes with making digital art. with making art digitally all the tools are available: undo buttons, thousands of brushes… so i’m pressured to make something good with those tools i guess, since its so easy to access with drawing traditional all i have is a silly sketchbook i bought from 4 years ago, and pencil crayons from my art class. and i’m free to just. art i guess without worrying that i’m doing enough
Omg i had this exact same experience with digital vs traditional! I wish I'd figured it out sooner, i struggled and fought with digital art for YEARS and almost gave up on drawing. What finally happened is AI art exploded onto the internet and I kind of gave up on digital art 😅 I went back to traditional and now I feel like a kid again! Loving drawing and getting more stuff done way faster, and being excited to draw the next thing!
not sure. i might have agreed with you, if i hadn't sketched two pages monday and then just left them sitting on my desk. i feel like my confidence on paper has taken a hit. its cliche, but that undo function is sure something. i did enjoy finally discovering a ruling pen for border lines though. an old complaint was having to use fineliners, and having them run out, or hit the ruler wrong and not make a line at all. and even with watercolour the process is slow and youre lucky if your skin tones dont need rewetting by the time youre halfway through.
I make all of my money through digital art, and despite how good it is as an actual tool, I find myself running into the same problems. I ENJOY making art traditionally, but digital gives me tools to make a finished product that can sustain me. I hope one day I'll get along far enough in my art journey to where these two bridges connect, and I can enjoy both processes somewhat equally, but I'm not sure digital will ever truly feel as satisfying as making something that is tangible. I'm a more tactile person by nature, always liked collecting stationary, love owning physical artbooks, and I switch up the tools I use depending on what I feel like using, and I think all of that adds to the appeal and enjoyment of drawing traditionally. What IS useful though, is that the separation allows me to segment things better. I have a process that's less fun, but allows me to make what I need to for work, and that's digital. And I have a process that I find satisfying and fun, for personal enjoyment, and that's traditional. Even though it has become my career, drawing and making art is still enjoyable for me, in part thanks to the fact I have a clear separation of when I'm doing something for others, and when I 'm doing something for myself.
IMO Digital tools, much like modern life, while immensely effective and valuable, burns one out fast. Its like deadlines, while it is great to enforce timely achievements, it also takes away the true artistic value the artist places on their work, hence burn out. Ironic, isn't it. Effective tools for creativity bring about the death of it. So the trick is to take more time when doing either digital or manual.
So I have a similar metal pen, and I actually like the weight. My hands are a little shaky due to work, and I find that the weight helps keep my handwriting a bit more steady.
That perfect throw!🤣 I love the level of detail in your drawings. It's so relaxing to watch you create stuff. And now I want to carve myself a pen.😉i think yours turned out great! Why does the fancy quill remind me of an elaborate serving spoon?🤔
I'm here for the humor and relaxing flow that your artwork delivers. You have a strange gift for creating an almost ASMR feeling when you narrate and i could listen to you for hours! 😊 You also have the best tips for making your favorite pens last. I have never seen anyone else encourage you to try and refill a disposable pen and provide hours of test data to back it up. So i appreciate all the work you put into your channel and thank you for hours of awesome content!😉
I love that you take the time to do in depth trials wirh each product and can offer ways to extend their use beyond the ink provided. If i get attached to a pen, i need it to work forever or its just sad. So thank you for taking the time to give us such useful information! 😊 Forever a fan! 🎉
I LOVE Diamine inks but realized they're water soluble, for the most part. Went searching for inks, and was able to get a bottle from Amazon for 13.99usd. I was so happy it came with an ink reservoir inside! I haven't used it yet but think it'll eventually become my primary ink.
All my expensive rapidographs clog, and now i'm thinking of using cheap (but good quality) rollerballs as my main pen. Liners can be too fragile with the felt tip as well. I found a Dong-A fine ball point .3 for less than a buck, and it isn't clogging on me just yet and is doing the job just well enough...
I'm a big fan of the Tombow. I've tried multiple brush pens and it is by far my favorite. Extreme variance in line width, and easy to control. There's a hard and soft tip two pack I purchased. Both are easy to control. Especially the firm.
That 18KGP means 18 karat gold plate, which is stamped on many Jinhou nibs whether gold plated or not, but is instead a legacy from their actual gold plated nibs, AFIK. I have quite a few of these 777’s and they’re really quite good. Mine all have EF as the only nib stamping. I got 11 for about AU$ 14 on Temu. Make enough of anything and it becomes cheaper and this doesn’t usually involve manual labour. There’s no meticulous and highly skilled fitting here. Enjoy these guilt and gilt free! 👍🏻 A cat must always be exactly where the action and attention is. 😁
For Ink, I got doctors latex gloves off of Walmart app, only like $12 ,you get 100 medium gloves, you can use them over and again, if you let it dry, I use mine once a day and only use one, depends on how messy it gets...
Just purchased 9x 777 pens for about $AU 11.00 and they’re excellent. But the stars for me are the X750 and X159. The X750 is my go-to but neither requires posting IMHO. The X159 appears to be powder-coated metal as with the X750 and is also a smooth writer, and I love the weight. The size factor is a bonus with my slightly arthritic hands too. I also have a couple of Centennial 100 pens just for the premium look, and one came with the extra-fine nib which is lovely but too fine for me. They are indeed superb and Jinhao has produced some quality products for budget prices. They’re inexpensive enough to collect on a whim from Temu. I will be buying more. 👍🏻
Spring didn’t work for me either- tried with several different nibs. What has worked was 2 pieces of medical tape - one over the eye of the nib, another wrapped around the nib. I did it to nibs like Hunt 101 or Gillot 303, though, haven’t tried the Pumpkin one like in your video. To me, difference is more than worth fiddling with tiny pieces of plaster 😅
I've tried the pigment pens from Steadler and these pit pens. I love the pigment pens better. I just don't like the way these lay down. The pigment pens blend better too. They also don't leak through the page. The Pitt pen leaked through my paper.
Been doing exactly this for some time, meant to bug some flux turns out I just bought two extra bottle so filled on with ink, coincidentally has a plastic bottle with a piss poor seal that needed a new bottle anyway
There is a pen that does use normal india ink called the "indiagraph" its pretty pricey but it seems to just was a small water reservoir in the pen cap maybe you would just have the cap damp
Tbh, sketchbooks are just so that you can look back as motivation. That's why it's so useful that it shows an artist start and helps you want to be better.
I discovered your channel not by any sort of product review but by looking for pen modifications. That might be the antithesis of a product review? And I have enjoyed all your videos - the ones about your mum's old Isographs is my favourite, but there are others, too. I stayed for the humour and the art - I really like your art and your outlook.
I'm going to try this out the next time I fiddle with a scratchy nib - thanks! The result looks pretty commendable. (A sort of tangent: do you have any fountain pens that are equivalent to a 0.01 Rotring Isograph or a 0.18 Staedtler Mars matic (even an inverted nib, as long as it's reasonably smooth)?
ack! You crush me! My entire presence in the artistic field is sketching as the final product. I *love* seeing sketchings. All their imperfections and construction lines etc. etc. I like them better than final pieces I've seen. But likely I'm in the minority. Yes, a very controversial take on the sketchbook that you have. I am a sentimental person and my sketchbook reflects that time in my life. I don't think I can move into a digital book that erases every sketch because I don't do final pieces in the way other artists do. I'm just a hobby artist. I don't make a living off them. So they don't get finished. :D Also, as a fountain pen enthusiast, what else would I use my fountain pens for once I eventually finish studying? Might as well use them for my bad sketches too. :D At least the ink is pretty.
Sorry I didn't make it very clear in the video: I will still be keeping sketchbooks full of sketches. That is important to me as well. But there are some sketches that I don't see any need to keep. Why would I need to look back on a book full of poorly drawn hands for example? Sometimes I'm drawing outside of my comfort zone, really trying to push my skill level until I get repeatable results. The drawings I make in that process are chicken scratchings and repetitions of isolated objects.
@@Ashsibe For me, I'm not of the skill to improve and stay improved haha. So I tend to luck out on a really good hand that I've drawn for practice "chicken scratch" and on bad days, I go back to this accidentally well drawn hand to show it was possible and that I drew it. I do have an ulterior motive, though (those pretty expensive fountain pen inks that I otherwise have no use for or are too illegible for writing but fantastic for shading sketches). For one such as yourself, who values the art over the tools and who primarily uses Platinum Carbon Black as a favoured fountain pen ink, I can see your perspective on those chicken scratchings. In your circumstance, if I had similar goals, I think I'd be of the same opinion.
For me a sketchbook is emotional, it's a journal like any other. I actually don't resonate at all with the way that you talk and describe things, especially talking about "legacy" or whatever... feels like men, especially white men, are always thinking about "legacy" and how they'll be seen and remembered and it's just... bizarre. I don't mean to come at your aggressively but I do feel strongly about that. yet I still think it'd be so useful for me to have something that instantly destroys my sketch and I will be trying this myself, for my own personal reasons :)
Sketchbooks are the physical manifestation of one having wasted time over and over again. That an organism that is prone to the ravages of entropy has the gall to want a legacy is hilarious. The sycophants that worry about art supplies being "lightfast" are my favorite species of Clown. 👻👻👻👻👻👻🎖
I've also given up on "waterproof" (as a fountain pen enthusiast) But as a hobby artist, worrying about lightfastness and waterproofing is in my opinion equivalent of worrying about camera gear specs when you can't do composition or lighting right.
An immortal being would require no legacy. But I am the clown you speak of. I've wasted lightfast inks for things that will never see the light of day.
Hum? Is the point not that with paper and such that you are encuraged to make something uniqe and however inconsequential it might be on its own. It still has a inherent quality by simply existing at all? Scriblings on some E-Ink display or whatever cool gaduget shown in the video that is erased the moment power is cycled? Yea sure it is useful and handy. Pen on paper is still far more interesting and purposeful. I'm not a Apple user. Have no idea what kind of storage it would take up making drawings on the regular on a Ipad. I still find it hard to imagine that it would be unfeasable to use such a device and make sketchbooks out of things. Seems like the best of all worlds. Easy to discard. Yet with the ability to complie things togheter. If ones drawings are better of not existing. Then why not let some AI do the drawings then? Seriously the inherent ability to peform something without the aids of modern tech is outstanding on its very own. The small scribling my mom do in newspapers or whatever at random has FAR more value to me then the countless of high fidelity color prints of logos and whatever new car is posted as a ad in said newspaper. And really that makes no sense if you look at it like that. How can some mindless scribles be worth more then the professional work? Even before 'AI' made music that you can listen to without turning it off in discust? Music was in general unintresting since it was mass produced with little soul or care. And still seeing somone pick up a instrument and make something actually enjoyable to listen to? It was and still is genuinely amazing! Increadible how somone seemingly mindlessly making something out of tin air! Not even trying to impress anyone. Not in for it for the money. Just making things. Playing things. It is like trying to train your gituar playing wihtout any sounds being made. Like? That is what erasing what you draw being the only option. Playing a instrument wihtout sounds. Same with people having the math skills to effortlessly do maths in their head that most people (including me) would have a hard time doing on a calculator! Most of this people are dying out now since the only reason they where so good at math was because their work required them to be able to do it fast. And without any digital aids? At best they would take out some pen and papper if the maths where mission cirtial to be done right. Or so far advanced in complexity that it might aswell be rocket sicence. If something your making is not worth keeping? Then what is the insentive to actually make something worthwhile? Even if only for your own enjoyment.
I liked your illustration of playing an instrument that doesn't make any sound. And if someone doesn't heed my warning that I mentioned at the end of the video it would be accurate. But in my case I'm playing an instrument that does make sound. I'm just playing it while no one else is listening. To practice until I can get a repeatable result. Should I be scared that each note I play is now lost to time? Should I record everything I ever play? I personally see no reason to. My goal is to learn how to reliably play my song. So I'm not exiting my isolation with nothing. I now have a higher level of skill. Anyway thanks for your thought provoking comment. And I hope mine clears up any misunderstanding on how much you disagree with me 🙃
Firstly - I love the video!! But secondly, as far as usefulness of sketchbooks goes, I think that for me personally it's good to have my past work to examine mistakes, examine what I did right and just simply reminisce - there are a ton of sketches that aren't exactly *good* but that I associate with pleasant memories. Scribbled portraits of my friends, cool bugs I saw on my walks, a cup of really good coffee, a sketch of my hand that I made in a quaint little ice cream place. I love having those to look through But also, when it comes to art schools and stuff, the recruiters are often interested in seeing your sketchbooks to kind of check if you have the potential for that particular class. Some of my friends wouldn't have gotten accepted if not for the piles and piles of artwork they had in their sketchbooks Generally though for me it's about the memories :) it's like a diary without words
