Good sepia ink?

January 12, 2012

this is an interesting one, I need more sepias, too.

Right now I am using Diamine Raw Sienna watered down a little. Initially it was too dark for my liking.

I find the raw sienna to be of a neutral brownish color. I wouldn't call it bright. A nice colour.

January 14, 2012

When I was noobie, I went down to buy a MB bottle and toss the ink like so many said.

Having the choice between racing green and some sort of brown...a sepia. ... In that I was going to toss the ink any way...I decided to get the brownish ink; never having had one, instead of that very hated Racing Green.

(I'd not noticed shading inks were hated by many too...but I was noobie dumb. I probably didn't know what shading ink was.)

That brown was ok...I decided not to empty the bottle for my Pelikan Blue, or black or Lamy Turquoise.

When the new MB bottles came out...did I get any of the rest of the Racing Green....no.

All I got was MB Toffee that put MB sepia in cobweb corner for a year or so. (Toffee was my first shading ink :hmm1: ....out side of SSB. I was blind or did not use the right nib....Sepia shades very well. :bonk: )

Eventually when you get enough pens, old inks get called into use, out of boredom.

MB Sepia suddenly found it's self for a few days in a number of pens. I found a place online that had some and ordered it. I needed a spare bottle.

Noobie ignorance, not enough good papers, more than likely not enough pens, pushed me into putting a good ink in Cobweb corner.

Sooner or later I'll get some more sepia inks. I'm just glad I got a supply of that MB Sepia.

There was a lot of MB hate when I came on the com.

Now all the old inks that have been discontinued are well liked...even the new versions; and a couple are @ the same old ink, with a new name.

Racing green was the most hated ink on the com...and loved by only a few. How times change.