Cartoon-a-Day

[Inky_Ben]

Thought I might try the discipline of drawing and posting a cartoon a day for a month.  All drawn with a fountain pen, of course.   First offering, penned with a Ranga Madras and an Ultra Flex nib, Pelikan 4001 black ink (why?  because it comes in quart bottles, of course):

 

 

 

[LizEF]

Looking forward to it!

[Inky_Ben]

 

The challenge is not drawing the pictures, it is having something worthwhile to say.  Rest assured that these cartoons will stay inside the lines of the site's no-politics policy.   Bit of a challenge in these times.  But them's the rules. 

 

Image drawn with a Ranga 4C/Jowo F nib, Pelikan 4001 Black.

[inkstainedruth]

@Inky_Ben -- What a great thread you've started!  You might also, this fall, think about trying Inktober (I tried it one year but found I just didn't have the time).

It's sort of serendipitous, because at my amateur madrigal choir rehearsal earlier this evening, when we had divided up in to sections to work a new piece started last week) I mentioned something to the other altos about doing NaPoWriMo again this year, and someone asked me about NaNoWriMo (which I tried once a few years ago, but that lasted less than a week -- I had calculated that I needed to write roughly 1750 words per day, and with the first weekend being the Ohio Pen Show, that goal didn't make it past about a week....  And then someone else said she'd been doing ink drawings every day, and I suggested that she consider trying Inktober next fall (and she'd actually heard of that).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Inky_Ben]

Interesting to hear of another fountain pen/musical crossover.  I sang as a second tenor in my local community chorus for many years.   Madrigals sound lovely -- although perhaps requiring more musical skill than I have.

 

The following is, perhaps, stretching the cartoon-a-day definition.  I think of a cartoon as a single idea expressed in one or more panels -- sometimes with text, sometimes not.    But this is a page of characters who leapt out of the pen this morning.  Top row:  Speedball Crow-Quill dip pen and India Ink (so not a fountain pen in any sense), remaining characters: Asvine J16 with Kanwrite Ti flex nib and Pelikan 4001 black ink (wrenching us back to the world of nibbed pens with an incorporated ink supply). Three cheers for whimsy as a balm in troubled times.

 

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Well I'm not one of the stronger voices in the choir, but I've been doing it on and off with this group since I got married (my husband used to be in it as well, but had a bad habit of singing a perfect third off from the rest of the basses -- which is a problem if the scale between parts is in fourths...).  

I've been in for almost 40 years at this point (not counting the 4 year hiatus when we lived in the Boston area, and I sang with a different group up there.

Of course, I haven't had a chance to really work on today's NaPoWriMo prompt (yesterday's just sort of flowed, but the two previous days were just slogs for me).  But I like at least making an ATTEMPT at the prompts, because it's a challenge.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Inky_Ben]

Here's another off-topic coincidence:  my wife is also a Morrison [different spelling, she points out], raised in Kansas City, but from a family of Morrisons that had its roots in Oklahoma. Her father, Scott, was the one who convinced me to try out for the community chorus (he is a bass) in the first place.  I am the only pen-nut tho'. 

[Inky_Ben]

Made with a Birmingham Pen Co. Alumina-C/Nemosine F nib.  Pelikan 4001 Black Ink.

[frank flood]

Inky_Ben, I've been reading posts you've done and thoroughly enjoying your work. Keep at it I'm sure you'll publish your work soon, if not already.

[Inky_Ben]

Thanks

4 minutes ago, frank flood said:

Inky_Ben, I've been reading posts you've done and thoroughly enjoying your work. Keep at it I'm sure you'll publish your work soon, if not already.

 

Thanks for the kind words, Frank!  LOL.  Let's get through the 30 days first. 😉  Glad you are enjoying them though. . . as that's the whole point!

[Inky_Ben]

 

Not sure of the pen/ink combo here.  I had meant to send this to my son as a postcard, but found it last night on my dresser-top.

 

 

[Inky_Ben]

[edmundronald]

Hehe. I think I'm going to enjoy watching this thread

 

Edmund

[Inky_Ben]

Here's something a little different.  I wrote a letter to my son, who is in college.  I have blanked his name out of the letter, but the theme of it was the importance of whimsy and not losing sight of that when in the college grind.  With apologies to the shade of Maurice Sendak (one of my heroes).

 

[Inky_Ben]

[OCArt]

[Inky_Ben]

@OCArtNow that seems like a mature sensibility at work!  Nicely done.  I admire the draftsmanship that goes into creating that convincing little universe for the character to have his realization.  Beauty!

[OCArt]

@Inky_Ben I wish it was my work but it's not. I suppose I should've posted this in "Chatter." 

[Inky_Ben]

@OCArt  LOL.  Well, serves me right for assuming. . . .hey, I can fall back on, "you've got a good eye." 

[Inky_Ben]

 

The Asvine V126 arrived yesterday.  It has less flex than what many would like for a drawing nib, but it was also so smooth, I just started doodling with it.  The pen out-smooths its price.