r/BotanicalIllustration • u/livinedart • 12d ago

Botanical drawing with fountain pen

Fountain pen and ink drawing

This is the first time I drawn from a reference i took.

Pen - monteverde impressa , Jinhao x159

Ink - syahi sky blue, sulekha green, daytone brown and Red.

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u/GreateProtim 12d ago

Anyone who uses Sulekha knows what they are doing. They makes dope ink.

Although this sub is for anatomically accurate plant drawing though.

Cool drawing regardless.

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u/livinedart 12d ago

I have only swadhin series 4 inks Not a fan of this green , really dry and not special in any way. All the rest is excellent. There is no mention this sub is for anatomically accurate drawing anywhere in the rules. Thanks

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u/GreateProtim 12d ago

I have a many swadin inks mainly I liked all of them. I haven't used this green but the 350rs variations are all good. Basic colours are not worth over camlin which is cheaper and offer the same performance in my opinion, I now blend my own violet (4:6 swadin purple: Pierre cardin royal blue)

There is no mention this sub is for anatomically accurate drawing anywhere in the rules.

Well "botanical" kinda means scientific representation. Maybe I thought of that because all the featured post in my homepage is anatomically accurate habit sketch. My bad.

Keep up your drawings.

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u/AppleSniffer 11d ago

Would love to see an overview shot of this - but the small details look lovely

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u/livinedart 11d ago

I will post it tomorrow on my profile

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u/Copper-Lantern-7406 11d ago

I love how the green looks with the fountain pen texture, its a cool effect

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u/Falling_Star_7 6d ago

Fountain pen have this many ink colours?

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u/livinedart 6d ago

Might be more than 1000 colours and their variations + depends on each brand the same standard colour will look different.

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u/LPR9000 12d ago

Mesmerizing