Show us what your finest nibs can do!

[Maurizio]

I’m still developing my skills.

For a drawing like the tiger which requires laying down fine lines with accuracy, this is, at least for me, a task which requires a slow deliberate approach; the feedback, or “drag” from a extra fine nib does help me place lines with more precision, and I still miss place some lines. 

 

I know there are other pen artists who work more quickly. 

 

Maybe, as my skills improve, I will be able to create ink drawings in a more rapid and loose style, if that were so, I would definitely want a pen with a generous flow and smooth feel as it moves across the paper. 

 

 

[A Smug Dill]

Here's trying to take it to the next level:

 

 

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone.

 

[arcfide]

1 hour ago, A Smug Dill said:

Here's trying to take it to the next level:

 

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone.

 

 

Love it!

[LordCactus]

I ground a random baoer pen I had into a super fine needlepoint that can write the full word "needlepoint" on a grain of rice. It feels like writing with an actual needle but the tines are aligned. I don't usually do needlepoints because I end up grinding off the tipping most of the time, but when I do, I try and make them as fine as possible

[Sailor Kenshin]

On 12/23/2022 at 10:04 AM, Maurizio said:

I have yet to produce a drawing with my new Pilot Falcon SEF nib as mentioned above in the thread, meanwhile, here’s a drawing I recently finished with one of my Pilot Desk Pens. 

Ink: Noodler’s Black (enhanced as always with a couple of drops of vegetable glycerin); this enhanced ink dries a bit slower than normal and you can see the smudge on the right ear when I forgot about that and brushed  my hand against the ink. 

Paper: Strathmore 50 lb. sketchbook

Beautiful work, and I love tigers.

[txomsy]

7 hours ago, LordCactus said:

I ground a random baoer pen I had into a super fine needlepoint that can write the full word "needlepoint" on a grain of rice. It feels like writing with an actual needle but the tines are aligned. I don't usually do needlepoints because I end up grinding off the tipping most of the time, but when I do, I try and make them as fine as possible

Wow! That is a real feat! And not just the grinding, the writing as well.

[Maurizio]

8 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Beautiful work, and I love tigers.

Thank you very much Sailor. 

I still haven’t completed a drawing with my new Pilot Falcon EF. I am trying to see some significant improvement in my pencil skills before I attempt a new pen and ink drawing. 

[Waltz For Zizi]

[LordCactus]

Can write "written on rice" on a single grain of rice

[InesF]

47 minutes ago, LordCactus said:

Can write "written on rice" on a single grain of rice

Nice on rice! 

[LordCactus]

This one writes almost invisibley finely!

[txomsy]

Wow! Which one is that?

[LordCactus]

9 hours ago, txomsy said:

Wow! Which one is that?

This is a needlepoint I ground from a Jinhao #6 nib!

[Inkyways]

@LordCactus

Amazing  work.  I like your idea and cold imagine what a talent. One - how to grind a nib Two- How to manage  to write with such a point. 

I know there are some technical drawing pens and the minimum size of the tip is -. 02 I guess. It is also tiny but you can't use it to write in a rice grain. 

Thank you for your share!!

[LordCactus]

Here's another recent grind, "needlepoint" written inside a 5mm dot grid

[LordCactus]

Even finer, next to a human hair