Haul from Goulet Pens’ ink sample sale!

Highlights include empty Colorverse and Herbin 1670 bottles, a potential Robert Oster dupe for my beloved Sheaffer Turquoise (whichgotdiscontinued grumblegrumble), a lot of green overall (including 4 samples and of course the Clairefontaine notebook), searching for a favorite coral/sage green/light orange go-to ink, and Sailor Manyo Haha. It’s swabbin’ time!

Side note: I haven’t forgotten about the Galen Leather Writer’s Bag review, I’ve just gotten sidetracked with five other projects. The very short version is that if you’re obsessed with it, go for it, but Goulet Pens may offer a better experience.

Thirty Inks in Thirty Days

30 Inks in 30 Days

Day 14

September 2023

J. Herbin “Rouge Grenat”

“Pomegranate”

Fountain pens

Fountain pen inks

me: i'll only buy one silver the hedgehog colored ink, it's all i need, i do not need any more

me: .... but i will browse teal inks

me: ................ maybe i will buy another silver the hedgehog colored ink

鲲神

Herbin Lie de The & Diamine Earl Grey

New pen for Christmas. The Ferris Wheel Press Brush pen, Echoes of Eaton. Really nice black satin finish. And I can’t wait for the brass to patina and make it look all old and vintage. 🖤🖤🖤

Forcing myself to like sailor's kon peki not only because I spent the money on it (only 15ml) but because I spent an hour fully cleaning the pen I just inked with it and am not flushing it twice

just inked up my fountain pens one last time before packing up all my inks :’)

caved in and bought a bunch of ink samples ive been eyeing for SO long… i deserve this [closing eyes as i confirm order]

I recently launched a brand new-old webcomic. Let me 'splain...

Back in the late 1990s when I was a young and impressionable college student. I became enthralled with trying to create a sort of minimalist comic. The idea was not to have to draw the comic from scratch each time. The idea, instead, was that I would just need to update the word balloons. That is to say, I wanted to change what the characters say (the dialogue), not how the actual comics look (the art). Then I thought it would be neat if you removed characters altogether. What you might get would be a sort of anti-comic.

So, I came up with J. Herbin. Here was a character who was simply a passive observer in his own strip. It would have little to no movement or action. The dialogue would come in from out-of-frame. We, the readers, are overhearing an off-frame snippet of conversation just as Herbin is in the comic. I came at it as this little experiment. Would such a strip even be interesting? Could I still make it weird? Or even, occasionally, funny?

Since I had just graduated from college (where I had been a cartoonist for the school paper) and the internet hadn't really picked up momentum yet, I did not have an outlet for the idea at the time. My original J. Herbin comics only lasted a short while. I ended up putting it in a drawer and kind of forgot about it.

I later learned about David Lynch's The Angriest Dog in the World and Max Cannon's strip Red Meat. I thought, "Hey, other people, much more well-known than me, have done this sort of thing. There might be something to this idea." Over the last few years, while the zeitgeist kind of centered on questions of connection and isolation, I started thinking about this little minimalist anti-comic idea once again. I put it on my list for projects to launch in the new year and now, well, its here!

The first few new J. Herbin comics are up and ready to read on the brand-new website... HERE

I hope, if you are reading this, that you'll follow along each week and check out this little project. I am oddly excited about it.

love using my pilot metropolitan fountain pen in my hobonichi, hate how long it takes to dry (it’s SO LONG!! i was spoiled by the fact that i used the iron gall ink in the hobonichi first and it dried so fast--faster than anything i’ve used that wasn’t pencil)

Happy Fountain Pen Day!

I’m not on Tumblr much these days, but hope you’re all doing well and being content and finding peace. Please enjoy this small stash of old photos!

Picked up a Pilot Parallel today because the art shop I went to on a whim had them and this thing's pretty nifty. I am NOT familiar with calligraphy at all but

It's a fun pen.

i love you pretty ink i love you paper i love you handwriting i love you poetry ❤️‍🔥

Van Gogh - Irises x Diamine China Blue

Monet - Water Lillies x J. Herbin Vert Empire

Brothers.

An ink painting for my silly Trigun Fan zine. I finally sent my files for it to be printed and hopefully have it available in September.

Ink:

Pilot Iroshizuku: Tsuyu-kusa

Pelikan: Brilliant Red

J. Herbin: Lie De Thé

got this vintage Lady Sheaffer fountain pen writing again! using a j herbin ink, eclat de safir, possibly my favourite colour ever so far that i miraculously had in short international cartridges format, which, it turns out, work in this Sheaffer pen.