When I was a cartoonist in high school I used to use a dip fountain pen and India ink to draw my cartoons for the school newspaper.
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| Drawn with a Platinum Carbon desk fountain pen and platinum carbon ink. |
I loved the feel of the nib dragging across the paper, the scratching sound it made and the smell of the ink.
Add some '70s music and it takes me right back there to my desk in my room drawing all night long., barely going to bed before I had to leave for school.
When I started drawing again last December I purchased some India ink and a few dip pens. It all came rushing back to me just as I had hoped it would. Unfortunately though, I have two 4-year-old boys and a 5-year-old boy running around the house so having open bottles of ink anywhere in the house is a disaster waiting to happen.
So I decided to give fountain pens a try.
I have three of them now. A Lamy Safari ...
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A Sailor Fude De Mannen
And a Platinum Desk Pen - Extra Fine DP-1000 (which to me is the most like a dip pen)
I also bought ink converters so I could use whatever inks I wanted to instead of going with the refill cartridges.
Each of these fountain pens have a quality all their own. I highly recommend giving one or all of them a try.
Although, at least for me, fountain pens don't quite feel like a dip pen, they do give me that raw, "just go for it" feel. And every once in a while, they will give that ink splatter effect that I get from a dip pen when the nib happens to stick to the paper. Now if they could just have that India ink smell (which by the way you should not use in fountain pens).
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