As we're a Fountain Pen Guy now, please tune in for our reviews of random fountain pens. We have two and they are both in the realm of Starter Pens. Hold for our opinions.
Pilot Metropolitan (fine). This is, we're told, the Stereotypical Starter Pen, but it works well, and we like it a lot. Good enough of a pen that it has us aimlessly sketching for the sensory input while it's in our hand. Worked out well enough to genuinely make us want to check out more fountain pens, because if the "basic bitch intro into fountain pens" pen is This Good, we dearly want to see what else is on the market. It's got a nice weight to it. Feels fancy. Also, spending twenty dollars on this feels exceptionally fancy, we're used to Spendy Art Supplies being in the realm of, like, $10-15 for a brush.
Diplomat Magnum (medium). We don't like using this one. It writes fine in theory, and we're told via a contact that knows significantly better about fountain pens than us that it has a very impressively smooth glide, but all of that gets sort of overshadowed by the fact that the person using it does flash poses every week in life drawing and as far as we can tell with the differences between how our contact uses it and us the flow is just physically not designed to be able to keep up with someone used to banging out a basic pose drawing in less than a minute. It skips a lot, and it writes with a very... shallow depth of ink? We're sure there's an actual term for it, but we're getting the ink much lighter in the page with it compared to any other pen or assorted dipping implement, and then it runs out of ink and stops writing and we have to wait for the ink to flow back to the tip. Our rating: unpleasant
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