My Favorite Pens

These are a few of my favorite pens. The handles are Tachikawa Comic Pen Nib Holder, Model 36, Pink Grip (T-36P). I love them because they are made of wood,…

These are a few of my favorite pens. The handles are Tachikawa Comic Pen Nib Holder, Model 36, Pink Grip (T-36P). I love them because they are made of wood, and handle the nib very well on paper while drawing. The nibs are also Tachikawa, the closer one, an ink stained g-pen nib. The one behind it has a specialty nib, and besides it coming in the pack with the g-pen, I’m not really sure what kind it is. It is better for detail than a g-pen, but it is not quite as detail oriented as a mapping pen, which I do use a lot also, but is not pictured here. I have to say the pen nib featured is like a cross between a mapping pen and a g-pen. It is like a g-pen without the extra ink reservoir to the sides. But it is slightly stiffer than a g-pen, but also able to draw line width variations.

I was just doing Chinese calligraphy, so I have my sumi ink (Japanese brand, Yasutomo) in the green bottle, and three calligraphy brushes that I bought on Temu for three dollars. Behind that are my dye based liquid watercolors in repurposed ink bottles. Sandpaper, for when I’m working on a plastic model airplane, and a bottle of water to refill when I need to do ink washes (Blick Black Cat India Ink), watercolors (Holbein tube watercolors), or gouache (Holbein Artists’ Gouache.)