De Atramentis Document Red

[yazeh]

This ink like and it’s artsy sibling reminds me of watermelon juice. It’s a pinkish red. I’ve done a back-to-back review of both and frankly I don’t see much of a difference between them other than Artsy is slightly darker.  

The ink is nothing like Noodler's Fox Red, that I reviewed recently. Frankly it's an underwhelming ink. However, if you need a good waterproof ink for editing it's a decent. 

 

Let's start with the chroma:

 

Writing samples:

I realized in retrospect, that I don't have a fine Kaweco, so the fine is Medium, Medium is B and B is double broad. My apologies

Poem is Adrift by Mark Nepo.

 

Minimal ghosting on Hammermill.

Photo: You see the real colour. The more absorbent the colour the paler the ink.

 

Comparison:

Artist seems slightly darker. 

Watertest 

As usual as artwork, entitled: Dreaming of watermelon in a heat wave, it was inspired by @LizEF  Colorverse Redwood forrest review.

Inks used: 

Green: R&K Alt-Goldgrün

Orange: Noodler's Apache sunset

I mixed the orange / green at the the horizon level

Black: Pentel Brush pen

Red: De Atramentis Document Red

Bright green: Pastel

 

 

Spade and heart... 

Pentel Brush nib /Document Red

 

 

 

· Pens used: Pilot Kakuna Ef/Stub Kaweco (EF/M/B/BB), Kanwrite Ultraflex

· What I liked: Teaching me to write with a feather hand  

· What I did not like: Not lubricated, palish red

· What some might not like: Dry, the colour, daytimes. 

· Shading: None.

· Ghosting: Faint on copy paper.

· Bleed through: None

· Flow Rate: Alright.

· Lubrication: It won’t make your scratchy nib glide. 

· Nib Dry-out: No.

· Start-up: No.

· Saturation: Nope.

· Shading Potential: Dismal

· Sheen: None

· Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: None.

· Nib Creep / “Crud”: A bit

· Staining (pen): No.

· Clogging: No.

· Cleaning: Normal. Like most pigment inks the more it stays in the pne the more you need to soak. But I didn’t need to use pen flush. 

· Water resistance: Excellent. 

· Availability: 45 ml bottles.

 

Please don't hesitate to share your experience, writing samples or any other comments. The more the merrier  

[lapis]

Great! Watermelon sounds good, too. I have this ink and all of its De A. Doc bretheren but I'd call this one more of a coral-red. As you say, nothing much as re "Doc".

[LizEF]

1 hour ago, yazeh said:

Dreaming of watermelon in a heat wave

Love it!  (Did you mean to say that the red in this drawing is DAA Sepia? )

 

Nice kitties.  Cute red fox.   Poor skewered heart.

 

Thank you for this review of an uninspiring ink.  Even the chroma's kinda meh.  Matte / chalky is just not an attribute you want in a red ink, but it's common with the DAD inks (in my experience).  Congrats on unlocking the feather hand power.

[lapis]

DAD sounds nice to me. Up to today, I had always thought of DeAD....    🥶  

[yazeh]

1 hour ago, lapis said:

Great! Watermelon sounds good, too. I have this ink and all of its De A. Doc bretheren but I'd call this one more of a coral-red. As you say, nothing much as re "Doc".

Coral Red is much more elegant, so be it  

 

[yazeh]

59 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Love it!  (Did you mean to say that the red in this drawing is DAA Sepia? )

Corrected. Thanks for letting me know  🙏 Glad It gave me an excuse to mix Green and Orange inspired by your story

 

 

59 minutes ago, LizEF said:

 

Nice kitties.  Cute red fox.   Poor skewered heart.

It was a prompt about Cards. Poor spades have had it bad, since the Queen of Spade

 

59 minutes ago, LizEF said:

 

Thank you for this review of an uninspiring ink. 

It gives us the opportunity to see the good in most things

 

59 minutes ago, LizEF said:

 

Even the chroma's kinda meh.  Matte / chalky is just not an attribute you want in a red ink, but it's common with the DAD inks (in my experience). 

Their normal line is alright. And they've got some surprising new document ones  

59 minutes ago, LizEF said:

 

Congrats on unlocking the feather hand power.

I'm not sure if I get that, too much DAD inks

 

[LizEF]

52 minutes ago, lapis said:

DAD sounds nice to me. Up to today, I had always thought of DeAD....    🥶  

[LizEF]

43 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Corrected. Thanks for letting me know  🙏 Glad It gave me an excuse to mix Green and Orange inspired by your story

 

You created a wonderfully murky locale!

 

44 minutes ago, yazeh said:

And they've got some surprising new document ones  

I look forward to learning more!

 

45 minutes ago, yazeh said:

I'm not sure if I get that, too much DAD inks

I was turning it into a video game skill that you have to unlock / achieve / activate / whatever.

[AceNinja]

12 hours ago, yazeh said:

This ink like and it’s artsy sibling reminds me of watermelon juice. It’s a pinkish red.

Looking at your writing samples, to me this ink is just red, not pinkish red.

But then again, I find my definition of red can sometimes differ with a lot of people.  

 

[yazeh]

10 hours ago, LizEF said:

You created a wonderfully murky locale!

I thought you would like it

 

10 hours ago, LizEF said:

 

I look forward to learning more!

Soon!

10 hours ago, LizEF said:

 

I was turning it into a video game skill that you have to unlock / achieve / activate / whatever.

Ok. Makes sense

 

[yazeh]

46 minutes ago, AceNinja said:

Looking at your writing samples, to me this ink is just red, not pinkish red.

But then again, I find my definition of red can sometimes differ with a lot of people.  

 

It's more like a coral red. The fact and the matter is that if you see the photographed version, you see the real colour. And then as I mentioned the more the paper is absorbent, the more the colour becomes light, hence coral

 

[InesF]

13 hours ago, yazeh said:

As usual as artwork, entitled: Dreaming of watermelon in a heat wave [...]

Thank you @yazeh for this inspiring review of an uninspiring ink.

I guess, you found the best (while only) good use of this ink: for colouring heat waves! 

[yazeh]

8 minutes ago, InesF said:

Thank you @yazeh for this inspiring review of an uninspiring ink.

🙏

8 minutes ago, InesF said:

I guess, you found the best (while only) good use of this ink: for colouring heat waves! 

Ah, actually I used it to paint something refreshing, the heat wave is Apache Sunset