Diamine Sepia: drawing review

[born t]

Hello All,

 

This is my first ink review post. This morning, I went to an art-shop and found that it had taken delivery of Diamine inks. The Sepia caught my eyes, as I like brown inks. Having tried the ink, I found that I liked it a lot, and so thought I should share my experience with the Forum.

 

Now, there has been many hand-written reviews already, so I thought how about a hand-drawn review? Well, here it is. I drew the portrait on Basildon Bond paper using an Omas pen with a fine, flexible nib. The ink behaved really well: it dried quickly and shaded beautifully. The flow was excellent, too, without being so lubricative that it compromised stroke control, while being capable of producing very thin, light lines as well as thicker, more saturated ones. The picture is about 2.5 times the real size.

 

The ink will replace Herbin Black Tea for the time being.

 

http://www.cantabgold.net/users/born/Born-1-small.JPG

 

Thank you for viewing, and hope you have enjoyed the review.

 

Born

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[Alice L]

Very nice

[penhorse87]

I wish I had your talent. Thanks for sharing.

[stevlight]

Nice drawing.

[reprieve]

Beautiful drawing!

[Bluefinntuna]

Nicely done.

[dannyboy]

What a great way to show us the possibilities of the Diamine sepia! I really like this drawing. Thanks for this posting and review.

[woodworker]

Woooow great picture. Nice review.

[Margana]

Terrific work! The drawing really helps to see the potential in an ink.

[tawanda]

WOW!!

I wonder if you could do a portrait using various brown inks? putting, high and low lights in hair and shadowing etc...Now, if only I could draw (sigh)

[csmorris]

Stunning

[Glenn-SC]

Interesting ink.

 

Nice drawing.

 

Thanks

[Gran]

Beautiful review. Thank you!