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i found using Bristol paper with ink dip pens much smoother than watercolour papers .

I had the opposite experience than you with the Moonman and Koweco pens. I'm so disapointed in Koweco Liliput's inconsistent ink flow. At its price point, the nib should funciton right out of the box. However, your video has given hope with the idea of replacing the nib with a vintage gold nib. Thanks!!

Would it be ideal to buy the feeds with the nibs so they fit better? Thanks

Hi, Marc. I am in the process of watching this video. It would be helpful if you would mention what books you would think would be helpful to get to assist in drawing heads/portraits. I like to have books to help me out in this.

Very helpful. I am off to my studio to try it out. Suggest you dont read your videos, just be yourself….👍🏻

Excellent review, thank you! Do you have any idea how this pen may perform during pressure changes (e.g. when flying)?

This tutorial is pure gold and should hit a lot more views

I'm surprised you completely missed DeArtamentis Document black. I use it all the time, its completely waterproof, alot of artists and cartoonists are using it now. Carbon ink destroys fountain pens if you leave it in more than a week. Rohrer&Klinger have a new black water proof ink, called Lotte Sketch ink, LOVE that as much as DeAtramentis Document Black. I didn't know they made a white ink! Worth a try. There is also Dr. Martins Pen White, but I would not use it in anything but a dip pen where its completely opaque.

Thanks for such a great demo, Marc. All very informative for sure!

Woah, now that's a neat trick! Let me abuse my printer :). Thank you sir!

Very interesting and informative episode. Thank you!

Love your tutorial! immediately subscribed. I'm gunna go ahead and just watch your other tutorials. haha

sorry but the Platinum 3776 it's deffinteliy the better pen for artist...and!! extremely better looking...the nip its larger but more precise. Its mechanism don't try out for long time! and! its perfekt to use with the best waterproof ink Platinum Carbon ink....

I should probably draw more with fountain pens. I like them a lot, but I have next to nothing to write with them! The only thing is that, with the line variation on a lot of stiff steel nibs, I may as well use a fibre-tipped liner. Say, do you think a Zebra or Nikko G nib would fit well in the 9019? I once managed to cram one in a Jinhao x750, but it took a lot of pushing and adjusting. Even more in a Moonman M600. I wonder if going up a size or two in feed diamater would help?

Followed this tutorial, made notes with examples and drew a tree🎄. The most challenging for me is varying the leaves patterns and keeping the clumps interesting and distinct.

Your videos really are top notch …. So much useful info. I have definitely been well and truely enlightened… some factors that I had not fully appreciated Thank you and keep ‘em coming !

Great video!!! I just realized thanks to this new lighting setup how much you actually look like Rembrandt van Rijn. :)Cheers!

A neat studio,,,, no work is being done😊😊😊

I'm not in need of a fountain pen but watched anyway for the drawing in the thumbnail. That last pen was such a dissapointment, the tests alone foreshadowed the drawing. Really shows you how important the right tool for the job is.

My sincere gratitude for this video, Marc 🧡 I am an artist, which decided to try ink media and my first experience with flex writers was extremely rough and disappointing (My fisrt acrylic pen just cracked in half maybe due to manufacturing defect and weak materials, maybe due to my heavy hand) But when I saw your video and the whole possibility of combining flex nib with the aluminium grip of TWSBI 580 ALR I have my idea of ink medium another try and it worked so well. Like literally, FPR nib suits maybe even better than original stub for TWSBI (mine was way too wet even with dry inks to me). So thanks once again, saving random people across the Internet, you are doing a great content here, on UA-cam, keep going 🙏

The only thing I would add ... sorry ... is that it's like when I was a photography student ... the focus on technique is a bit overwhelming (although men love it!). When you are someone who just gets out the camera or the pen - and I have been doing a lot of pen and ink recently - how does a second-rate artist (or even a third-rate one?) cope with this focus on how to cross-hatch, etc.? I don't do it well and am fully aware of that ... want to learn, so am not criticising the analysis, just saying that it overwhelms my desire to create? So every time I'm doing a drawing, I'm second-thinking myself - second-thinking what seems to come naturally? It was the same with Fstops (and I never produced very good pictures ... so there you are!)

I am a bit overwhelmed by the fact that you have chosen her as a master! I have followed you for quite a few months. I bought Conte pencils about 30 years ago, and until your videos (started watching 2 months ago!) I never knew how to use them. I told my husband that it was like waking up after being asleep. Re Kathe K. (pronounced almost as 'Katie' really, in English, with emphasis on the 'a' - I'm a Cathy too, and I live in France, so I am sensitive to pronounciation!!!). I have a catalogue of her drawings from an exhibition that I went to in Cologne in 1973 when I was an au pair there - 'Kathe Kolwitz: Zeichnungen' was the name of the expo. I was somebody who used draw, back then. Her drawings have stayed with me - as has the catalogue - over all those years. Thanks so much Marc!

caravaggio lighting for the video

Great lesson. Brave soul to use your own photo to mark up!

Great lesson, I tried doing a copy of the praying hands by durer recently, it's the worst drawing ever, I may try again using these principles. If you get time and only if you think people would be interested, it would be great to see you do a master copy of praying hands and discuss his techniques and what he would have been thinking about as he did it.

Great drawings, Marc!

Very nice review and marvelous drawings!! May I know @19:57 were you using a chrome Duke 209? How do you like that pen?

I can't describe how useful this video is to me. I've been drawing for a while now, and I found that pen and ink is the most suitable medium for my style, but I was struggling a lot. After watching this video, I find things more clear and can say that I've learnt a lot about the technique. Thank you so much for this great effort.

I've given up trying to convert a Jinhao to hold a Manga nib and not rust away - about to order my first fude pens but I see that most have a hard bend and not a curve like one of those you really liked here. Do you advise bent or curved nibs please? Also - love the idea of putting dilute ink in for washes. Never thought of that before!

I am actually a huge fan of the humble BIC Cristal. The ink is nice and I can get a huge variation in line. I use them in several colours just for fun. I've used everything you showed (I'm an utter maniac when it it comes to art supplies), but I tend to like dip pens and technical pens - probably because my father was an engineer, and it's what he had for me to learn with. I have yet to find a fountain pen I adore, but I'm working on it. Thanks for another fantastic and thoughtful video! 😊

Thanks for such a comprehensive review. I've been curious about these. I'm a big user of dip pens and (perhaps oddly) technical pens, but I like the convenience of fountain pens when I'm out and about. Thanks in particular for your assessment at the end about who would benefit most from this pen. I'm thinking this may be an in-the-future-but-not-right-now purchase for me. 😊

I have never understood the popularity of hatching and cross hatching. I understand that some people like it, but it so often looks like someone has just put lines on what could have been a good drawing. If using ink, there must be another way of shading. As to the Indigraph, a wonderful pen! I use it in drawings and writing too sometimes.

I'm not sure how you got yours to work without railroading. I tried the same combination using wet inks and it railroads and skips every time. The feed will need opening up probably.

Dear Marc, thank you so much for your videos generally. I am particularly grateful for this one and refer back to it often. By far this is the most informative tree instructions/theory/demo for this medium out there. If you ever feel so inclined, a similar styled video on clouds would be wonderful. From what I can see there is little detailed instruction out there. Of course the principles will be similar to leaf canopies but I find them a particularly difficult subject to be expressed effectively through line alone. Especially if situated within a landscape scene where atmospheric perspective requires them to not overbear the fore- and middle-ground elements. Other than that, simply more videos of yourself tackling master copies are always welcome and appreciated. Thanks again! - Sam

This is brilliant. Watercolor aqua inks would also be perfect for this technic.

Thank you for the review. I own many Lamy pens with different nibs, unfotunately their finer nibs feel scratchy out of the box but still peform well enough. Even their 14k EF nib feels scratchy but has fairly good flex on it.

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and you favorite?? What fountain pen is this beautiful!

mine 9019 M has great line variation!

What a detailed review 👌 , I tend to use all of those pens but I find myself comeback a lot to the gel pen

Great review. This video is an example why I follow your channel. While acknowledging the Platinum's skipping issues and changing the ink is normal to see how it performs, but to complete the face diagram with the new ink is something wonderful and shows your strong commitment to the viewers. Looks like I have to get both pens now 😊😊

Hello, Marc! Thx for video. I am a long time fountain pen fan too, and westside L.A. native (Miracle Mile) having attended SMC and CSULA over the years. I came here from your video, YT "Book Recommendations for the Beginning Artist." I am obsessed with pens beginning with the $1 Schaeffer cartridge pens used in grammar school to learn cursive writing to the Schaeffer gold nib tip business pens I used in the 1960's to today my art use of various mixed media and pen & ink applications. Pilot, Lamey, Jhinhao, an undomesticated, so to speak, Chinese brand to a glass dipping pen for all medium use (acrylic alcohol inks, Calligraphy inks, watercolors). I want a pen that can cover all uses, and that just doesn't exist. So, I have a small collection of under $20 pens with various F and EF nibs that I play with in sketchbook doodling and zentangle or neographic fun break time from atelier-type self-styled online and textbook curriculum prompted also by the Pandemic. I really liked learning from your video what features to look at when buying a pen, and how to use them. Thx. BTW: Looking forward to your upcoming? video on the Masters, Goya, Klee, Hale?, & Zorn

Wolf's Carbon pencils are not available where I live. What do you know about Conte Carbone pencils? Could there be an alternative to Pierre Noire? Thanks for the video. ❤

My Safari is very smooth. I prefer the pilot metro but the converter doesn't hold a lot of ink and i can't seem to get more ink into the converter

Very interesting video- thank you! I have been thinking of sketching with pen and ink, so this was particularly useful. I have the Platinum SF and EF 3776s. I find the Pilot range a difficult type of pen to use - partly for their maddening converters... That said, they make the wonderful Iroshizuku inks, so that is a redeeming feature. I write a lot and use the Platinum SF to edit text when I need a very fine point to make corrections in a manuscript. The EF was a recent impulse buy and I find myself writing with it for general use as it combines a beautifully precise line with some wetness. I also think the steel EF nibs used by Leonardo Officina Italiana 'Momento Zero' or 'Momento Magico' pens are worth using- they are particularly nice with an 'elastico' nib. Recently, I indulged in a Twsbi ECO with an EF nib (steel) and find it very good indeed, especially as it can be used with most types of paper (unlike the Platinums which respond best to good quality surfaces). I look forward to seeing more of your instructive videos!

For me it‘s easier to start at the hips - try it.

Lately this has become my reference channel. Thank you Marc. I'm wondering if it would be possible to do a similar hack with the Kuretake#13 as the one with the Pilot paralell nibs mounted on a piston/eyedroper so you can have a sor of customized Yongsheng. I've seen you can purchase just the feeder +tip of the Kuretake #13. Don´t know which piston would fit.