rOtring Fountain Pen, ArtPen, Sketch, Fine Nib for Lettering Drawing and Writing

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This pen has only a very slight ball so the line feels and looks pretty crisp yet it is also smooth. I got these 3 fountain pens recently and this is my review on how they function as pens for drawing. I did find that broken lines were a little more challenging draw because the ink flowed so readily but again, this is something to get used to rather than a fault with the pen. We believe that giving children the right materials, they will make and play with beautiful things that last a lifetime. However, it’s essential to maintain the same amount of pressure throughout or you may end up with patchy writings (darker and lighter patches for areas where greater and lighter pressure are applied respectively).

I’m not sure if they were trying to emulate the look and feel of a dip pen but that’s what sprang to mind when I was using it. Brought this pen to clean up my line work on paintings it works ok but only just and the ink is really weak not very black more very dark gray.Another downside to this nib is that if I use Noodler’s bulletproof black in it, it doesn’t come out very black because the nib lays down the ink so thinly. So this pen has a wider channel (the slit in the feed) than other pens so there is less chance of ink getting stuck while in the pen. If anyone has compared the platinum desk carbon Pen with the kdp 3000an and the Dp1000an, I will be very interested. I added some water after the initial drawing had dried to see how much the lines were affected by a wet brush.

Have only ever cleaned it or flushed it when changing inks and then only with water, other than that it just gets to stay inked. Suddenly, I want to explore hatching and filling everything with these crisp thin lines, slowly building up a texture made of lines as I fill a page. The Carbon Desk Pen and Rotring Art Pen are also very good fountain pens and a worthy alternative to more expensive fountain pens. And if you are using PCB ink which is a thicker ink, the pen might seem to skip a little on bumpy papers. The most comfortable pen I've ever used and the nibs glides, and hasn't as yet drags, across different grades of paper.

As an artist, I like knowing that my pen can be disassembled for cleaning because I like using waterproof inks like Noodler’s Black and Platinum Carbon black in them. Again, I suspect this was to model the pen on dip pens or quills but that main body of the pen (the bit you hold) is a comfortable 10mm in diameter so it’s wide enough where it matters. Do this carefully The feed looks different from the Carbon Desk Pen and there is an inner part (not seen here) of the feed that cannot be removed. For those that like to use watercolors after laying down links, it’s not as the wash will cause the lines to run. Artpens are modern fountain pens, but their elegant design preserves the feel and balance of traditional dip pens.

Having gone from the process of going to school, using any pen one can lay their hands on, pens in blister packs, cheap ballpoint pens and the one parker 25 that was saved slavishly for, as an adult, this came as a nice surprise. It is a specially formulated pigmented ink for fountain pens where the pigments are small enough so it won’t clog a fountain pen. I was surprised at how easily the ink flowed and the amount I could vary the line width with only a slight turn of the barrel.It doesn't seem bothered what diet of ink it is fed, it just lays down ink reliably, never remember it either skipping or flooding.