Mh, I don't draw much with ink (I'm more a watercolorist, I bring out the ink drawings only in Inktober), so I don't know how useful my recommendations will be to you. Still, I am a fountain pen collector... XD Of course, it depends on what you are looking for in a drawing pen. If you want extremely fine lines, I'm quite impressed with the Platinum Preppy with EF (extra-fine) nib. It's cheap, it's well-made and it's the thinnest nib I own. For "normal" fountain pen lines... Well, I'd say, anything that feels good in your hand. I mean, the selection is extremely broad. Still - there's this Chinese company called Jinhao, they make very nice, very affordable pens. The downside is they apparently don't do much of a quality control, so any pen you like, you should order three of, take the one that writes well and toss the rest. They're so cheap that even then, you don't pay much - and the good ones are really really good. For broad and expressive, I can recommend the pen I'm using for Inktober, the Duke Confucius fude nib. I mean, it's completely useless for writing, but as an artists' tool, it's awesome. Unfortunately I can't help you with italic nibs at all; I'm left-handed and the only italic nib I own that I really can use is a hand-modified one on a Parker Sonnet. And that's a gold nib that's neither cheap nor easily available.
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Date: 2019-10-06 10:15 am (UTC)Of course, it depends on what you are looking for in a drawing pen.
If you want extremely fine lines, I'm quite impressed with the Platinum Preppy with EF (extra-fine) nib. It's cheap, it's well-made and it's the thinnest nib I own.
For "normal" fountain pen lines... Well, I'd say, anything that feels good in your hand. I mean, the selection is extremely broad. Still - there's this Chinese company called Jinhao, they make very nice, very affordable pens. The downside is they apparently don't do much of a quality control, so any pen you like, you should order three of, take the one that writes well and toss the rest. They're so cheap that even then, you don't pay much - and the good ones are really really good.
For broad and expressive, I can recommend the pen I'm using for Inktober, the Duke Confucius fude nib. I mean, it's completely useless for writing, but as an artists' tool, it's awesome.
Unfortunately I can't help you with italic nibs at all; I'm left-handed and the only italic nib I own that I really can use is a hand-modified one on a Parker Sonnet. And that's a gold nib that's neither cheap nor easily available.