This is a nice green that makes you think of Robin Hood and his merry men, lurking in the forest ready to leap on posh people. There isn’t a whole lot of shading going on with this ink but it’s a typically well-behaved Diamine ink that won’t let you down. Here’s a video of me […]
I’ve drawn a picture for every day since the start of February this year. They’re mostly quick little sketches and I don’t often draw them on the actual day. But it’s the only kind of diary I’ve ever kept that I’ve frequently looked back through. Being a creature of habit I’ve used an OHTO Graphic […]
Guides A comprehensive introduction to the Midori Traveler’s Notebook, three parts. An introduction, by way of a review, to the Roterfaden Taschenbegleiter notebook system, with an update here. A guide to D1 refills. D1 refills can be used in many multi-pens and are often used in machined pens too. A guide to pencils for drawing. […]
It’s hard to deny that Calepino notebooks are rather similar to Field Notes notebooks. They are the same size, have almost identical cardboard covers and even claim an ‘authentically inspired by artisans’ kind of origin story. Field Notes came first. Feel free to draw your own conclusions. Whatever your feelings about that in the end […]
Stephanie over at Rhodia Drive recently asked how we chose which ink to use. I am the kind of person who spends way too much time thinking about these things and funnily enough a few days before Stephanie wrote about this I had written down some rules, for myself, in an attempt to stop myself […]