Their black is not too, more like a charcoal, and so they have a warm and cool grey in my mind - Darmstadt and Frankfurt. I ADORE Super5 - whose unusual non-crayola colors I love to sketch with as they add to the drawings with soft muted color. They have my favorite black and I also love their urban grey. I daily draw with DeAtramentis Document Inks (all colors I’ve tried are waterPROOF on every paper I’ve used), excellent in pens and do not have the same particulates as the Carbon or iron gall inks. They seem to chug along for about 5 years then die. I love Platinum Carbon but only use it in the Platinum Carbon pen… Never cleaned mine. I keep Lexington Grey sometimes for shadow work… but it can move too, just not so much as the others I tried. I mean MOVED… the first one ruined an onsite drawing for a client out of state, and did not make me happy. I’ve had Noodler’s inks - I’ve tried six - all supposed to be waterproof (not bullet proof or archival which mean different things having to do with forgery, etc.) moved on half my sketching papers. I just did another post on the topic because so many people think it is okay to call water-resistant inks waterproof. First because it’s good to support independent business, and second because they absolutely know what they’re talking about. In my experience, whenever you can, get your ink from a retailer like Goulet Pens rather than Amazon. India ink, like Koh-i-noor, is for technical pens, not fountain pens. If it’s a cheap one, that may be ok with you. India ink (the kind you use in technical pens) truly will destroy a fountain pen - the feed just isn’t engineered for it. (I see that LadyP noted this as well below.) Some of the Noodler’s inks are partially waterproof, like Walnut (very dark brown) - this can create interesting effects in a sketch, where the line softens but won’t wash away. Plus Noodler’s is fairly cheap for the giant amount you get. (The potential exception is Baystate Blue, which is gorgeous but stains like a mofo.) Bulletproof Black is the classic, but there are some interesting different options. Second the recommendation for Noodler’s for waterproof inks, which are formulated and time-tested for fountain pens. If Platinum Carbon does shorten the lifetime of then pen – I really don’t care, and I’ll never even know – I buy Lamys for around $40, and hope to lose them in an alley in Macau or a taxi cab in Havana! Artists want to use them into the ground, and treasure the drawings they make. In other words, pen collectors treasure the pens as objects. The thing is, ask an antique car guy about taking care of a car and they’ll say don’t drive it in the bright sun, don’t let kids in the car, for goodness sake don’t live in a place with winter! Just draw every few days and the ink keeps flowing :) Pen collectors might only take out their Aurora Diamante to sign checks for charity donations and real estate deals. There are other nano-particle inks, but it’s the only one I’ve tried personally.Īnd then, maybe just don’t stop drawing? Don’t leave your pen in a drawer for weeks. It’s fully pen safe > in my experience < I’ve used it in their name-brand Platinum Carbon Pen, a number of Noodler’s pens, and a number of Lamy pens. Platinum Carbon Black is the ink I use for waterproof drawing. What does Marc say?: “They don’t know about Platinum Carbon Black I guess :)” Only a dip pen, she said, should use waterproof ink. She said that the waterproof ink ruins a fountain pen very quickly because the ink dries in such a way that it clogs the pen. The owner did everything possible to dissuade me. I went to a store in Los Angeles today to buy a recommended fountain pen with waterproof refill. Here we have lead holders and charcoal perfect for sketching, circle templates for exact circles, erasers among other exciting products.A student recently inquired: “ Hi Marc. In addition to the iconic pencils, Koh-I-Noor today manufactures a range of other materials and tools for drawing. To emphasize the high quality of the pencils and give regal associations, Koh-I-Noor's pencils were painted yellow and because of this ingenious marketing, many people still think that a pencil has a yellow body. At this time in history, the highest quality graphite came from China, where the color yellow was considered a royal color. The name Koh-I-Noor was launched in preparation for the World's Fair in 1889, referring to the diamond with the same name which was the largest diamond in the world at the time. The company was the first to patent pencils made from a mixture of graphite and clay - the first modern day pencils. The well established brand Koh-I-Noor was founded as early as 1790 in Austria, under the name Hardtmuth after the founder Joseph Hardtmuth.
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