I just got an order from Swisher that included an bottle of Noodler's Red-Black. I haven't had a chance to really go crazy with it, but so far I really like it.

I put it in my Safari with a 1.1 nib with the intention of using it to add notes to my sketches. I'm really happy with the results. When I tried using black ink in the Safari, the lines came out too heavy and overpowered the drawings. The Red-Black matches up nicely with my doodles. I guess that now I need to practice my handwriting with the italic nib.



Here are a few samples.

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Quite subtle, isn't it? You'd think red-black would just look brown, but somehow it doesn't.

Regarding your handwriting - it's true practice would improve it; but just as it is, the overall effect with the drawings is rather pleasing, I think.

I put a little more effort into forming the letters on the first image, and I think that it does look better. I don't really want or need the writing to look like fine calligraphy, I just want it to match the drawings.

Also, I think that it looks better on the Hand•Book paper. I think that I may give up on the Moleskine sketch books. The paper is just too weird for writing or drawing with anything other than technical pens and some gels.

Frankly, I like your hand writing and that ink. My gosh, I'm going to have to uncap my bottle and have a good look at it. Thanks for posting the pix. I really like your drawing of the Sailor Brush pen (the first page drawing.) Actually, I like all of it.

Keep on, keeping on!

Nice, really nice... and about the handwriting... mine is worse.
I normally write my reviews in standard "ruled sheets for collectors ring" (don't know if the google translation is right) but I was seriously thinking to use a large ruled moleskine notebook, the one with 240 pages.
The main advantage of not using a standard notebook is to add or remove sheets from every review.
I have to think about it but I appreciate a lot your work.

Quite - that's what I was getting at. Character is always much more interesting than calligraphy, to me at any rate.

Thanks for the compliments.

I had an idea in my head about how this stuff would work out and it's been better than I thought. The only problem now is that I'm starting to get too many pens to carry around in my pockets.

Here's another one.

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