#rapidograph

[99centmenu]

I saw myself in the mirror

[vanderwaa]

Creature Elegies

Made for my biggest fan, my brother F. ❤️. One day I hope to paint on a real harpsichord.

[synapseoftheark]

Technical/Drafting Pen Masterlist

This is more for myself than anything else but it's just a list of different brands and different kinds of pens they've made. I put a star next to the ones I’ve used before :] let me know if I missed any!

sorry my pen autism jumped out

Rotring (Germany):

- Rapidograph*

- Isograph*

- Micronorm*

- Variant*

- Varioscript

- Primus

- Rapidoliner

- Foliograph

- Tintenkuli

Staedtler (Germany):

-Mars 700*

-Marsmatic 700*

-Marsmatic 707/745/750/757 (there are a lot of number variants but I am unsure of what the differences between them are)

-Marsmatic 759 (Duraglide)

-Marsmagno

Koh-I-Noor (Czech Republic):

-Rapidograph *

-Acetograph

-Rapidometric

-Faber Castell TG (Germany)

-Reform Refograph (Germany)

-Centropen Centrograf 9070 (Czech Republic)

-Unitech Technical Pen (Germany)

-Keuffal & Esser (K&E) Leroy (United States)

-Herlitz Technoliner (Germany)

-Standardgraph Stano Pen (Germany)

-Skala Skalory Pens (Poland)

-Rystor Rapidograf (Poland)

-Kern Prontograph (Switzerland)

-Mecanorma Graphoplex MG1 (France)

-Markant Lin’s 9 Plus Pen (Germany)

-Erograph (Germany)

-Aristo Technical Pen (UK)

-Trident Desegraph (Brazil)

-Kokuyo Rota Graph (Made in Germany but sold in Japan)

-Cleo Skribent Technical Pen (Germany)

-Uchida Kent River Pen (Japan)

-Berol Turquoise (United States)

-Isomars (India)

-HERO (China)

Pens/Brands I have seen on Ebay but have barely seen anything about online anywhere else:

-Dator Duo-Graph

-Linegraph

-Copygraph (also called КОПИГРАФ but I couldn’t find anything when I looked it up) (USSR/Russia)

[riff-raaf]

The combination of sharpie and rapidograph fumes are combining in my nostrils into a concoction so noxious it will soon be banned for use during wartime

[ashleybravin]

Salt shaker postcard. This one requires a bit of a backstory. When I first started working with my mentor before art school, he used tell me that whenever I hit a block or felt like I had run out of things to draw, that there is always something to draw, and that I should get out of my head and just reach for a salt shaker and draw it. He would insist that there are always salt shakers sitting around in restaurants and cafes, and that the practice of drawing the same common thing over and over again would make something new and spark new ideas. Salt shakers became the symbol of problem solving between he and I, both of us regularly saying “there’s always salt shakers” when things got tough. Ever since I moved away, and for years now, my mentor and I have been mailing each other drawings of salt shakers in our letters, and on our envelopes ever since. 🧂 accessibility: A photo of a watercolor postcard with a drawing of a salt shaker in grey marker and red pencil and black ink. A collection of markers and pencils are scattered about it, as is a salt shaker, and a deck of post cards. #StoryTime #KohINoor #Rapidograph #RapidographPen #PrismacolorPen #PrismacolorMarker #AlcoholMarker #Drawing #Art #ArtistsOfInstagram #ArtInsta #ArtGram #DailyArt #Fabriano @kohinoorusa @prismacolor @fabriano1264 https://www.instagram.com/p/CqYViuQLbpA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[stone-cold-groove]

A career in drafting can pay big dividends.

[youngart]

Rysopis

Krzysztof Schodowski rapidograf na papierze 42x56 cm

[scholarofgloom]

[99centmenu]

coloring book no. 10

"vengeful"

[vanderwaa]

My colours

This is how I work.

[schodowski]

A pipe | rapidograph | 42 x 56 cm | 2024

[shrews-art]

Traditional art dump!!!

[krawdad]

Finally took the wheelchair for a spin and I probably should have much sooner. The biggest difference I noticed was that my legs didn't hurt. Also that having my eyeline significantly lower didn't bother me as much as I thought it might. Biggest thing was being mindful of my turn radius. And remembering that I need to use the breaks when I'm not on carpet.

Went to the art store for the first time in years. Got some ink for refilling my brush pen. I want to use it more and I didn't want to have to fuck with the refill cartridges or worry about running out of ink. Preliminary testing looks promising, but it's going to be a while before it will actually need refilling. I'm going to try and spend some more time laying some ink down in my sketchbook.

[a-treatise-on-velociraptors]

Weirdest art advice I've ever seen is (and I can't even remember who said it, I think it was someone on tumblr or youtube?) someone saying that micron pens were a weird hill for so many artists to die on, and that they should learn to use actual tools of the inking trade. For a while in high school this made me think that microns weren't a tool that 'real artists' used, which like????

Yeah you should vary your tools and learn to use others like brushes and dip pens but also microns are like. fine. They're a little wasteful since they're not refillable but they're not bad tools by any means. I'm using one right now and I have an entire art degree

Just. Dont let people tell you you're using the 'wrong' art tools. I've done cool shit with a 20c ballpoint pen on printer paper.

[dazzelmethat]

I used to be big into traditional crosshatching in highschool, I’ve been reteaching myself it. I scanned this Renoir (my oc) that I crosshatched with a nib and ink.

[daftpatience]

YEAH YEAY OKAY! here we go! welcome to i get to infodump about pens again, yay yippee!

what's the difference between ballpoints, rollerballs, and gel pens?

ballpoints, rollerballs, and gel pens all use a ball-socket mechanism that continuously coats itsself in ink as it rolls across a page. what makes them all different from each other is in the ink composition!!

ballpoint pens have an oil based ink paste. the ink is very thick & requires more pressure to write with, and can get kinda skippy as the tip gets dirty or clogged, but is able to stick to many more surfaces like receipts, plastic, really shitty paper, etc. it can be hard to wash out of things that you get it on, since it's more waterproof than other inks.

one of the neat things about this type of ink is that you're able to shade with it by varying pressure. lots of artists make great use of this!

hybrid or low viscosity ballpoint ink is often just ballpoint ink with an added lubricant to make it write smoother and flow better.

rollerball pens use water based inks. fountain pens, felt tip pens*, and dip pens all usually use water based inks. because of this, rollerballs are very free flowing and rarely clog, but paper choice is more important and some folks can find them to be leaky or overly wet. the writing experience is not as glidey as a gel/ballpoint since the ink is not thick, but it doesn't need a heavy hand. rollerballs enjoy more colour options than ballpoints and can have very dark blacks, but aren't waterproof unless the ink is pigment based instead of dye based. *felt tip pens feel very different than any of the other pens on this list cause of the soft point, they put out ink in a very even and somewhat dry way, and can also use alcohol inks, like copic markers. alcohol inks soak very deep into the page and dry very fast, and blend very differently. i'm not as familiar with them!

gel pens use inks that are made of pigment suspended in a water based gel. these inks tend to be very thick and put out a wet line that takes a longer time to dry. gel pens are most likely to clog and skip due to this, since the ball is not as evenly coated in a substance so thick. gel pens do have the widest colour options and can be fully opaque (ie. pastels, whites, etc) but are often very frustrating as they clog up and get old and dried out.

as a bonus, true technical pens are a whole different kind of beast and have very specific standardized nib sizes and colours. cad software has largely replaced the need for extremely precise technical drawing, but artists still like pens like the rapidograph! they're made differently everywhere but generally, instead of a ball, there is a small tube of a precise diameter with a little wire inside it that controls the ink flow. they can't be held at a lot of angles and aren't as versatile as other pens, but they put down incredibly crisp lines.

yippee yay pens!! wahoo!!