Artists: What're Your Favorite Top Three Drawing Pens?

[watch_art]

I just thought of this the other night.

My favorite three pens to draw with currently...

In no order...

 

Lamy safari B nib.

1930s Sheaffer balance F nib

Pilot Custom 742 FA nib

 

I like my 1940s Sheaffer Triumph nibbed pen too, but the barrel is kind of tiny. I like em fatter.

 

I'm just curious what other artists use.

 

thanks!

[henry660721]

I'm a designer, and I use my Lamy safari F nib with Noodlers black ink for drawing, which works quite well.

[stevlight]

Mont Blanc 149 B nib or 4B nib

 

Pelikan M805 M nib or custom 3B nib by Richard Binder.

 

Edison Herald Grande B nib, Condor Nib or flex nib--If I could only take 4 pens with me in life I would bring my 3 Herald Grandes and one MB 149 {at this point the 149 is for sentimental reasons}

[ANM]

Pelikan M&K 120 with EF semi flex nib and Ivison Phinney #1 Spencerian dip pen and Parker Maxima Vacumatic with fine flex nib.

Edited July 22, 2010 by ANM

[riff raff]

I'm waiting on a Sailor profit with "fude" nib, to see how that works out.

[rcannonp]

My favorite is my Pilot VP with an F nib. After that I like Copic Multiliners and my .25 Rotring Rapidograph.

 

I'm thinking of ordering a Pelikan with a flexy XXF nib.

[MeiLin]

Are any of these good starter pens for a young artist? My daughter is aspiring to a career as a manga-style comic artist (she has her own webcomic already) and is learning to draw both in digital and "analog." I've been wanting to get her a good pen for a while now; she uses ball points and regular old pencils now. I don't want to spend a ton in case she decides she hates it. Though she has the not-quite-13-year-old habit of hating something and then adopting it as her favorite thing a month later...

[watch_art]

i think lamy with whatever size nib she'd like would be a great starter pen. get the converter for lots of color choices and inks besides lamy (i hate lamy ink carts)...

 

i really like my lamy for drawing.

[rcannonp]

Are any of these good starter pens for a young artist? My daughter is aspiring to a career as a manga-style comic artist (she has her own webcomic already) and is learning to draw both in digital and "analog." I've been wanting to get her a good pen for a while now; she uses ball points and regular old pencils now. I don't want to spend a ton in case she decides she hates it. Though she has the not-quite-13-year-old habit of hating something and then adopting it as her favorite thing a month later...

 

You might try a set of Sakura Pigma Microns. You can get a set with different nib sizes for $8. The Copic Multiliner SP is a step up from that. They use refillable ink cartridges and nibs and come in different sizes.

 

Something else that you might look into in addition to pens is the Pentel Pocket brush. I like them for accents and spot black areas, but some people use them for line drawings.

[WillSW]

It was an XXXF Waverly by Mr. Binder, but then I replaced that with the XXXF + full flex (appropriately called the "artist's nib" on his site) and I must say I can't imagine it getting much better, especially since WHEN I get my dream vintage flexy, I won't want to fill it with the Noodler's OMB that I like to draw with.

[Sketchy]

The endless quest for the perfect sketching tool brought me to the joy of writing with fountain pens but I rarely draw with one. Instead, I keep coming back to Sakura Pigma Micron pens because they seem to work the best for me when I'm drawing with ink.

[gyasko]

Brush pen. Mine is a Takara, with natural bristles.

 

To tell the truth, i don't really like drawing with fountain pens.

[jimhughes]

Rcannonp: WillSW's pen review sold me on a Binder special. I'm not an artist, no talent, much to my dismay. I got a Pelikan 205 with a Waverly XXF and I love it. Richard will work with you to get the nib just the way you like it. His suggestions to what would and would not fit my needs was perfect. I LUV my pen. Usual disclaimers apply.

 

 

Riff Raff: I'm a bit lost here whats a fude nib?

[riff raff]

Riff Raff: I'm a bit lost here whats a fude nib?

Go here. Second nib from the bottom.

[rcannonp]

Rcannonp: WillSW's pen review sold me on a Binder special. I'm not an artist, no talent, much to my dismay. I got a Pelikan 205 with a Waverly XXF and I love it. Richard will work with you to get the nib just the way you like it. His suggestions to what would and would not fit my needs was perfect. I LUV my pen. Usual disclaimers apply.

 

I keep thinking of getting an M205 with the flexy XXF duo point nib. I've even added it to the cart a few times, but it's just not in the budget right now.

[cubic archon]

I use a Rotring ArtPen for ink sketches, though I am thinking of using dip pens more.

[USMCMom]

I'm an abstract acrylic (and oil) artist. I use a glass pen for fine details on some of my acrylic work, because the results can be better than using a fine brush.

[thisisanwar]

I love draw with fountain pens , I don't have much more collections of FP , but I have some low price PILOT pens, so my favorite three pens are Pilot, Pilot and Pilot, the proofs are below.

[fountainpagan]

Those are beautiful drawings!!!

Thank you for sharing

 

I use a Chronist, from 1930 - needle point and a Tropen Contructeur, 1960, also needle point, and an Esterbrook J, with a 1550 nib

[JulesSilvan]

Rotring Isograph - my absolute favourites.

 

Closely follwed by the Pentel Brush Pen and Kuretake Fudegokochi, both of which are great for quick sketches and ideas. Good line variation.

 

As much as I love my fountain pens I just don't like them for drawing.