Jason Nicholas tests a new fountain pen and sketches a street scene with a bridge, comparing pens like the Lamy Safari and Pilot Precise. He talks through ink flow, paper bleed, and minimal-line composition while inviting viewers to his October 26 sketching workshop.
Right, hey, so I, I just kind of, uh, I think I wrapped this one up. This one came out kind of cool. So I am gonna switch gears for a second. I'm gonna get my journal and let's just do some sketching. This— I want to, I want to use this fountain pen I haven't used in a while. Well, I shouldn't say that, it's actually new. I've only used it once, so let's break it out, give it a try, and see, uh, see you. Let's throw it in some ink, see if we like it or not. Cool. I'm gonna let this one dry. So if you guys are interested in sketching barns, check out the workshop I have coming up on October 26th. Um, you'll see the link up in the upper left-hand corner and also in the chat notes comments thingy. All right, I'm gonna break out some clean paper. And let's just do some random kind of sketching or even scribbling in here just for fun, and we'll, uh, check it out. We will just sketch a small perspective scene here. I'll draw a frame. Let's see, we'll just kind of do boom boom, and we'll just, we'll just do a little quick kind of perspective sketch here. Maybe we're looking down a street somewhere. Maybe there's a bridge or something in the background. That'd be kind of cool. Maybe something's happening way, way in the background there. All right, let's, uh, let's bleed some of this ink and see how it looks. So cool, just a little perspective scene here. Um, I like the way this ink's bleeding. I have to be honest, I— maybe it's me and fountain pens, I don't know if we, we just don't get along. Um, I'm really struggling just to get the lines down with this pen. Um, so far my best fountain pen I've used is the Lamy Safari. I'm like a beginner with this stuff, so this is a new territory. I mean, I've been using Lamy for since 2015-ish or '17-ish. Um, but this new, new pen I got, I don't— maybe it's the paper, it's just really— it's hard for me to get the ink down. So I guess practice, practice, practice, right? Practice always helps with no matter what you're doing. Most importantly, I'm just having fun. How can I not have fun just throwing down some colors, playing around with ink and paper? It's so cool. I like these small thumbnail sketches, are very abstract. Maybe I'll put color on the buildings, I'm not sure. Let's see, this is a Pilot Precise. So when I first, like, back in architecture school, this is the pen probably Well, the type of pen I used, um, the most is the Pilot Precise pens. I've always loved them for so, so long. They've never failed me. Um, really just so reliable. And the reason I stopped using them so much was, um, I switched to the Sharpie because the Sharpie doesn't bleed when you add water on top of it. But let's just break out our good old Pilot Precise here, pull out some of the line work, maybe create like some kind of edge happening there where the building is. I like this bridge all the way in the background, it's kind of cool. I hope you're having a great, great day. Let me know where you're watching from. I've sketched a lot today. What I love about these little scenes is my brain kind of zeros in and focuses on and imagines what is happening here. So I'm imagining all the way at the end we have some kind of stairs maybe going up. Maybe there's a raised, um, maybe a plaza. You go up to the stairs and there's a plaza up there, um, maybe, which could be kind of, kind of cool, right? So sometimes for me, less lines is, is more. Less lines can be more imagination, for sure. Yeah, looks kind of cool. All right, I think I'm going to wrap on that. Just quick little sketch, perspective sketch. Um, thanks for watching. I'm Jason Nicholas Nicholas with the Inkspired Life. Until we meet again, sketch boldly, live creatively, and inspire endlessly. See you soon.
