Which Ink Color Looks The Most Like Blood?

[lreiley]

I'm a teacher. I'm really liking the color and flow of this Scribal Works Zhulong ink that I'm currently using to massacre some research papers. This ink has been the only ink that has done well in my attempts at converting various pens to eyedroppers. Don't know if it's the pen (an old Sheaffer No Nonsense) or the ink, but the combo works.

[hoppes no9]

Among my inks, these are the bloodiest.

 

Older clotted/scabbed blood:

MB Alfred Hitchcock

Diamine Red Dragon

Herbin Rouge Hematite 1670 (except for the sheen)

 

Fresh blood:

Diamine Wild Strawberry (others are probably better though)

[heymatthew]

Herbin Rouge Hematite 1670 (except for the sheen)

 

I'll second this... My mother-in-law got me some of this ink for Christmas last year (2011, I guess). At first I was like, "Great... Red ink. What will I ever do with this?" Then... Oh, boy. I put it in something plain like a Lamy Safari and doodled out a quick sketch and good gracious, I was in love. Lots of shading and variation, even in that simple little Lamy nib. In a dip pen or flexible nib (maybe a Noodler's Ahab or Creaper), it really shines from what I've seen. I have yet to try it though. I keep an eyedropper Preppy inked up with it all the time for those impromptu red notes I want to write.

 

Not sure about the others mentioned, but I'm sure they're wonderful as well. I'm sure you can get some samples from some of the online stores.

[tonybelding]

I'm a teacher. I'm really liking the color and flow of this Scribal Works Zhulong ink that I'm currently using to massacre some research papers.

 

Is it on the dry side? The one Scribal ink that I tried was quite dry.

 

Mont Blanc Alfred Hitchcock is a fantastic ink if you want that blood look.

[mAnuscript69]

Several topics have already been created discussing blood coloured inks as well as inks for grading on cheap paper.

To reiterate, my picks for blood red inks are Diamine Oxblood and Noodler's Black Swan in English Roses.

[lreiley]

I'm new to this ink thing, so not sure what you mean by dry. It did not smear and wrote quite smoothly. I used up my sample and am now on to Dakota Red. I'll take these suggestions to order my next batch of samples. I'm now thinking the problems I've had are with the pens I've converted--so far, there's just no match for this 25 yo Sheaffer!

[chris.hale]

Diamine Oxblood. I once compared it to a smear of actual blood and the colour looked identical.

[Fuzzy_Bear]

Noodlers Comanche Rouge from Dromgool's

[The Major]

Hitchcock has to be right up there as I am sure thats what it was designed to look like

[bueno]

I liked the Hitchcock red but, to me, the look is more of dried up blood rather than "fresh." .... Well, that sounded creepy.

[hoppes no9]

Posted in another thread, but reposting here:

[benborgmeyer]

noddler's antietam is appropriately bloody, not in a fresh way, but in brownish way

[bemyhorcrux]

Red Dragon, in the lights I normally use it in (fluorescent and metal halide, rarely incandescent, almost never natural daylight), tends to come off a bit too purply for my tastes. Oxblood is very brown, Antietam tends a little towards the orange side, but is still creepy enough to look disturbing when using it to leave notes. I ended up going with bottles of Diamine Matador and Monaco Red, rather than Red Dragon (which initially seemed perfect, in sunlight), because the samples I had seemed to come the closest to "fresh, just-spilled blood" under my normal lighting conditions.

 

I don't know how to get an image to show comparisons in the way my eyes perceive things in different lights; sometimes I wonder if I'm imagining if I really liked the ink as much as I'd thought on the last fill. So I've got no pics to post.

 

All of the inks I listed will look like a nosebleed, of varying freshness, on a tissue.

 

Antietam's got one property I particularly like over the others, though - it sort of "coats" the inside of my converters, making them look more blood-filled, rather than having the ink all collect at one end as the Diamine inks tend to.

[Fuzzy_Bear]

You might also look at noodler's widow maker. It is a dark ish red I use it to grade my kids papers.

[savingbirds]

Private Reserve Vampire Red?

http://www.gouletpens.com/Private_Reserve_Vampire_Red_Ink_p/pr47vr.htm

[EKE]

I agree with the Diamine Oxblood suggestion.

 

Another bloody one: Noodler's Red-Black.

[hoppes no9]

Another bloody one: Noodler's Red-Black.

 

Good call. I just got a bottle of this and I REALLY like it. A bit darker than many of the other suggestions, but a really great scabby color nonetheless.

[bemyhorcrux]

Anyone know if Diamine inks are, in general, mixable with each other? I'm thinking a bit of Ancient Copper added to any of the other reds mentioned would tip them closer to "who did you kill for that ink?" territory, but I did see the thread about the Hellfire and Lightning blob-monster, so I know that it's not generally a good idea to mix Noodler's...

[Fuzzy_Bear]

There generally is no problem mixing Noodler's. There are certain ones to not mix, but they are stated.

[TWRDO]

Don't forget about Noodler's Tienanmen. Very much a blood-red ink (and was meant to be).