fountain pen

Currently exploring image making with fountain pens: immediate mark making, no pencil, no eraser. I'm enjoying the discovery process and embracing the stray mark made with semi-blind contour and continuous line drawings.

Drawn with a Pilot Falcon SEF fountain pen using Platinum Carbon Black ink and colored with Holbein watercolor.

A simpler & graphic style with Lamy fountain pen and Pentel brushpen

A giraffe I found on Pinterest. I wanted to get in some practice with my newly purchased fountain pens.

Watercolor, Micron pen and green fountain pen in Monsiour sketchbook

Playing with colored inks at fountain pen

Another batch of sketches from my time in the album recording session earlier this week. Noodler’s ink blue loaded in my fountain pen, then applying a bit of water with a water brush. I like the bleeding that occurs.

Sometimes I just start throwing lines on top of lines. Today was such a day, fusing, intermingling, and vomiting lines up onto the page. (I originally titled this "Dreams in Digital" but then I was like "no one has heard Orgy's second album but you. Please abandon this late-1990s alt-rock persona. Live in the now.")

This drawing looks a bit like one of those "how are you feeling?" hospital charts. It starts out okay ("smiling cat", "drunk pirate"), and descends into full Lovecraftian Horror. I was driving toward a local town known for its unpleasant yokels, which probably explains the progression. Today, for the record, I'm 75% Apathetic Lumberjack, 5% glassy-eyed cat, and 20% Vampire Waluigi.

I took an hour or two and drew some owls while watching the 7th Harry Potter movie. The black (it's actually dark purple) ink is in a Platinum Preppy refillable marker (I SWEAR BY THESE -- you just need the ONE and can keep putting ink in it) (https://www.gouletpens.com/collections/other-writing-instruments/products/platinum-preppy-refillable-marker-black?variant=11884751487019) and the green is in an extra-fine Lamy Al-Star (https://www.gouletpens.com/products/lamy-al-star-fountain-pen-bluegreen?variant=11884855885867).

Noodlers Ink - Fountain Pen

The ruined city gates done using drawing inks and a Noodlers Ahab fountain pen

I love drawing series of things. This week's pick: owls.

A bear enjoying a rest at a waterfalls. Done with a fountain pen. I drew this as a Teacher's Day present for my Korean language instructor.

I drew a girl holding a cupcake and felt bored by her, so I added some sweet-ass tats. This was fountain pen ink run through water brushes. For more Digital Random Joy™, be sure to check out Instagram Super_Starling, which is a fairly fun place, if I do say so myself.

WHIP IT GOOD. This ode to Devo was drawn with fountain pen ink run through brush markers. The watercolor effect was me running a wet brush through parts to make the fountain pen ink lift and pool. If you want more Leah Fun™, be sure to check out instagram Super_Starling!

Doodling with a fountain pen in a Moleskin

Noodlers Ink - Fountain Pen

Done using a fountain pen and drawing inks

Sketch of a jasmine tea tin in which I store nibs and ink cartridges for fountain pens. India ink on paper.

Platinum Preppy 02 fountain pen, Noodler's black ink, watercolor paper.

Fountain pen with Japanese ink... watercolour

Done with pilot pen and fountain pen

Copic Markers and Fountain Pen

Trying out new fountain pen inks through quirky doodles and water washes

Drawn with a Lamy fountain pen F nib.

Lamy fountain pen (F nib) with blue ink on cardboard.

Done with a pilot pen and fountain pen