#glass pen

[zeldacw]

Ink drawing of Lan Zhan, WangJi.

Music: Torchlight

Musician: Winter Foe

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[watering76]

來自日本的緞帶尖玻璃筆，筆尖是平平的，用來寫哥德體、義大利體、安修爾體等平頭字體。

影片中用了爆閃的珠光水彩，這樣大面積的線條看起來閃度加倍！

美歸美，如果你已經有金屬沾水筆的話，完全沒必要購買！ 比較一下側面，玻璃筆尖比金屬沾水筆厚上許多。

所以玻璃筆線條沒辦法那麼銳利、起筆和收尾的襯線粗了一些。

優點還是有的，因為金屬沾水筆寫出來的墨比較厚，寫出來顏色通常比色卡深上許多。 而玻璃筆多了幾條導流的溝槽，寫出來墨的厚度會比較薄、比較平均。

但，不會控墨導致寫出來字深淺不一的話......直接買百樂藝術鋼筆就可以了，還比較好寫呢！

[corvidcurse]

froot!

[adequately]

こだわりと遊び心満載の作品に仕上がりました

[iipastelhxrmony]

Got my first glass pen today and tried drawing with it

[jwinsorart]

Day 21: hello summer. Couldn't resist a sunny yellow and red color blend for the summer theme. What's your favorite summer activity? I think mine is watching fireworks. I don't love the super hot and humid weather but I love how long the days are.

🖋Glass pen from Amazon

🎨 @royaltalensna Ecoline Liquid Watercolor

📜 @fabriano1264 Hot Press watercolor paper

[mobolanz]

I promised some babes so here 🛡️🍎(⁠ﾉ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧

[eagle-writes]

EEEEEEEEE MAIL DAY!!!!

I dont usually write with something this wide so I’m not quite used to keeping the whole width in contact with the paper but in general? It seems to write beautifully - super-smooth, and should be extremely useful for papers where a metal nib digs in and starts shredding things as soon as the paper gets wet.

Procured from Hanabi Glass:

[improvewithtutorials]

Short interlude about glass pens and writing material.

[akins-art]

Hozier, De Selby (part 2)

[ktchewy]

A comparison of some pens I'm currently using and some new pens I acquired

Pens used:

- Uni-ball One P 0.38mm - LAMY Safari <EF> - TWSBI Eco <F> - Pilot Capless/Vanishing Point <F> - Pilot Kakuno <EF> - Ancora Ginza custom pen <MF> - Sailor Hocoro <M, F, fude> - Kakimori brass nib dip pen - Matsubokkuri glass pen

Lengthy review under the read more 🙈

The Uni-ball One P is sort of like the control for the comparisons? Idk LOL we know for sure it's 0.38mm so we can estimate how much thinner/thicker the other pens are. This pen is my go-to for quickly jotting things down, I highly recommend the Uni-ball One series of pens to anyone looking for a gel ink pen! It writes super smooth and has never smudged for me, the way the pens from the P series (P for pocket!) look is also super cute. After using the Uni-ball One pens, other non-fountain pens just don't hit the same. When I was filling out forms during check-in at one of the hotels in Japan, the staff gave me a regular ol' ballpoint pen and after one stroke, I went "nah I'm not writing with this" and grabbed my own pen from my backpack.

The LAMY Safari and TWSBI Eco are both a constant for me, they're always filled and hanging out in my pen case. I know some people don't like LAMY Safaris or TWSBI Eco's because of inconsistent nib qualities from the former and cracking issues from the latter but both of these pens have been pretty solid for me, never had any issues with them (knock on wood! 😳) I included them in this just to compare them with the new pens I got.

I am super in love with the Pilot Capless/Vanishing Point, probably my most favourite purchase of the trip! I used to think my TWSBI Eco wrote smoothly but the Capless straight up gliiiides across the paper. I picked this up in Itoya Ginza and had the chance to try out the EF as well and I think because that one was so thin, there was a bit of feedback so I didn't like it as much. I love writing with this pen so much, it sparks joy!! The retractable mechanism is very convenient for quickly putting the pen down and picking it back up again. Super recommend it to people who are looking to try a higher budget pen. For comparison, this matte black version sells for $275 CAD locally and I got this at Itoya for ¥18,540 (tax free hehe), which equals to about $175-180 CAD.

I actually already have a Pilot Kakuno with an M and F nib in my collection and I wanted to try a thinner nib but for some reason, just the EF Kakuno was super hard to find locally. I forgot to write on my sheet that it's currently filled with Sailor Shikiori Yamadori, because of the thinness though it's hard to see the turquoise colour of the ink haha. I think this size would be perfect for writing in the condensed space of my Hobonichi Weeks, I'll have to test it out in the weekly pages once the proper dates roll around.

The Ancora Ginza pen is also another pen I was looking forward to get, only because it was almost like going to Build-a-Bear but for pens LOL If you want to search more about it, you can try the official Japanese name of it: アンコーラMy万年筆. The model of the pen is a Sailor Profit Jr. and cost ¥4,400, I did research prior going on my trip it used to be ¥3,800 at some point 🥲 You can pick between a regular steel MF nib or a fude nib but I already have a fude Profit Jr so I picked the MF instead. My friend also commented that she thought I would be making multiple pens but I'll be saving my second custom pen for another time just so I have an excuse to go back to Ancora again >:) This nib also feels really nice to write with; no feedback, very smooth. I'm trying to limit my number of inked pens so this comparison was only done by dipping the nib in ink, I do want to fill this pen properly and try journaling with it soon! The only complain I have for this pen is that the cap or body feels a bit squeaky scratchy when I screw them back together, it's most likely just the part I grabbed but the quality might be hit or miss with them. The pen that my friend made is completely fine though! I think it's worth it to get your own pen made because it's such a unique experience.

If you're looking for a dip pen to play around or swatch multiple inks at once, then you'd have to try the Sailor Hocoro dip pen. I previously ordered the fude nib one online and I loved how convenient a dip pen is in general. But because of the nature of a fude nib, it took some time to get used and having to write at a specific angle to get the line width I wanted would sometimes give me wrist pain lmao :') Then not too long ago, Sailor announced that they were releasing a M nib so I added that to my mental list of things to buy, and then seeing how cheap stationery were in Japan, I picked up an F nib (no pen body) and the extra "feed" parts too. The feed isn't necessary but I like that I can write for way longer as opposed to not having it (check out this demo from Yoseka) In hindsight, I wish I had gotten the grey body in Japan. I do like the white body but I just want to keep the bodies with their respective nibs that I got them with and I feel like I might have mixed them up while swatching inks the other day LMAO

The Kakimori dip pen has been in my wishlist for a super long time and I'm very glad I held off from buying it locally in Vancouver or ordering it online. The sakura wood nib holder and the brass nib are listed on a local shop's site for $49.95 and $64.95 CAD respectively, on Kakimori's online shop they're ¥4,520 for the nib holder and ¥7,430 for the nib. In Kakimori's physical store, I got the nib holder for ¥2,970 and the nib for ¥4,950, with the conversion rate, that's like $27-28 for the nib holder and $46-48 CAD for the brass nib!!! 🥴 Price aside, this dip pen is another tool you can use for swatch inks or just drawing/doodling with it, I love the super thick line you can get when you hold it at a low angle, it's how I swatched all those lines in my Hobonichi Weeks. I've always read about how the stainless steel nib is harder and feels scratchier than the brass nib and after having tried both in stores, I do prefer the brass nib a lot more. The stainless steel nib felt like it didn't want to be written with, it just didn't feel pleasant imo. Some people might like feedback in their pens so I do recommend testing the pens out if you're able to before buying them.

This glass pen by Glass Studio Matsubokkuri ガラス工房まつぼっくり is my very first glass pen and I only chose this one because 1) the body is simple and short, I don't like the crazy swirly glass pens I commonly see 2) the triangular body means it's less likely to roll off the table 3) it was easily found at Ancora Ginza LOL I first discovered it when I was watching this youtube channel doodle/swatch inks with it. On Matsubokkuri's own website, they have F, M, and broad listed but there was only one size available at Ancora. I think mine is a F nib but I don't have any other glass pen to compare with so it's totally a guess, I'm just comparing it with my F fountain pens 🤔 The staff at Ancora gave me two pens to test out before purchasing since glass pens will have slight differences between them. They both wrote fine, I only picked the second pen I tried because the swirls in the nib of the first pen looked wonky to me.

If you made it this far down the post, thank you! I just wanted to share my thoughts on the pens that I have and hopefully this can give a little insight and help someone on their own pen journey!! 🫶

[kurumi-igarashi]

Dip pen(?)

IT'S JUST SO PRETTY AAAA- I need more ink but... Budget... :') BUT LOOK ITS SO PRETTY AHDBSHAHSJ (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

And yes, the notebook's a DIY too. Braided yarn and then sheets.

[girlswhohavetotakeit]

POSCA Miku

You've seen:

Sakura Miku.

Snow Miku.

Bottle Miku.

Shiteyanyo.

Now meet: POSCA Miku (NT)!

I was sooo inspired by Miku Day (3/9) here at Tumblr with so much beautiful art and even though I missed the date, I figured I'd miku miku anyway. Most depictions of her that I saw were in her default, VOCALOID2, iconic outfit. Decided to give Piapro's NT some love!

Also, scratch whatever I said about POSCA being better than alcohol-based markers in my last post. It's just all so experimental to me right now, I should have foreseen what great use alcohol markers shall have to me in my future POSCA drawings! They make for the perfect shading tool, being kinda transparent and all. Blending with POSCAs is a no-no, and shading with them is blocky, black-and-white-- which is actually good for cel shaded illustration, just not what I was looking for.

Now I can't imagine my traditional art without either of them. :)

I had no idea what was going to come out of this. It's not perfect, but since I had no expectations, it ended up pretty satisfying!

Thanks Pelikan and Sinoart for... existing, really, and commercializing the glass pen and pink ink. I love them. I used them to give the drawing a final touch, and Miku seems to have enjoyed it! I'm brand, fresh new in the world of fountain pens.

[corvidcurse]

it's Chroma!! and also drawing this I realized dromeowyrms have a borzoi energy to them....

[mitzishadow]

i don’t usually post traditional art on here but i’m actually so stoked about this one LMAO and the last one I did which maybe i’ll post too

[curdled-blood]

1. Gather the Posse

WOWOWOWOW

I'm doing Yeehawgust!!! Today I drew me and my friend's crp ocs from Marwood Meals :D

I used a glass pen for this and I will probably continue to use then for the month :))

Solors under cut:)