Nerd Sketching and Playing with New Drawing Gear
So in December I binged on drawing tools and paper. I haven’t gotten around to testing the papers yet, but my new collection of brush pens, pens and nibs has me all swooning. A Rotring Art Pen (EF), good for both writing and sketching, a very very black Pentel Brush Pen, a grey Pentel Color Brush Pen, and a whole set of pen nibs.
The Pentel Color Brush Pen is a bit clumsy, especially compared to his elegant and handy little black brother, so the little one is probably going to be used much more by me. It is also the first of the lot that I’ve been seriously test driving the past week or so, first at home
then drawing nerds and their devices at the 27th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin (where I also gave a presentation).
The lack of detail is due to my being stuck in the cafeteria, without any daylight whatsoever, and not much light in general, so a similar situation to party sketching only that people moved less around here.
Some close-ups:
(The strange straight lines in some of the pictures are fuckups of my scanner, which I hope he gets over again…)
classless said on January 4th at 7:31 pm:
Also reminds me of the CCC FAQ!
Oona said on January 4th at 7:47 pm:
Yeah, me too! Now we just have to write it…
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M said on January 7th at 4:06 pm:
Congratulations for getting the Rotring. Good Choice.
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Veronika said on January 15th at 12:28 am:
I’ve got exactly the same Pentel brush pens and I love them :) I really love your sketches.
Oona said on January 17th at 2:37 pm:
Hi M, I really like the Rotring so far, but there is one thing that annoys me: the minuscule size of the ink cartridges. I cannot find even one good reason to make them this small, I think they could be 3 x as big and still fit into the handle, and I don’t enjoy having to change them every couple of days (I don’t just use it for drawing, but writing too, and thus I’m using it a lot).
But I don’t have that problem with the Pentel Brush Pens;-) Thank you, Veronika!
M said on March 4th at 1:49 pm:
Forget the cartridges! Use the rotring converter cartridge instead and you will be able to make your own ink mixture to draw with. as long as you don’t use too much ink and maybe mix it with destilled water, you can use the art pen to do waterproof sketches!
Since I do so, I don’t use the custom cartridges at all.
Oona said on March 8th at 3:29 pm:
I did get a converter, but I still enjoy playing with water soluble ink.