Octopus Write and Draw Brown Penguin

[yazeh]

 

Octopus Write and Draw Brown Penguin

This belongs to Write and Draw line of nano pigment inks. They are waterproof, light fast, and ISO certified. 

The complete line up the 38 inks are here:

https://www.octopus-office.de/shop/en/creative-inks/write-draw-ink/?p=1

 

Octopus has a host of warning on their site, basically recommending their inks only in cheap, well-sealed pens.

https://www.octopus-office.de/info/en/write-draw-ink/

 

The naming of the inks is whimsical, the colour followed by an arbitrary animal, unless there are brown penguins and red Koala’s roaming about. 

 

The ink is well behaved, wet, and well lubricated, yet I am underwhelmed by the colour.

  

I would recommend you getting a sample before investing in a whole bottle. 

  

The reddish tinge is obvious in the chroma:

 

Writing samples:

 

 

It's alright on copy paper. But don't flex on it or use a wide/wet combo. Those brown smudges are not bleed through. 

 

Photo:

 

Comparison:

 

Water test

 

And finally, an artwork. Note the ink had stayed for two week in the pen, so it became darker. 

 

 

 

• Pens used: Pilot Kakuno Ef, Stub, Kaweco Sport (EF/F/M/B/Stub 1.9), Osmiorid Copperplate
• What I liked: The colour, very fast dry times. 
• What I did not like: Not much. But I’m not in love. 
• What some might not like: 
• Shading: It seems there is  
• Ghosting: A tiny bit on copy paper. 
• Bleed through: A tiny bit when the needle tip of the copper plate pierces the paper. 
• Flow Rate: Good. 
• Lubrication: Slightly below average. 
• Nib Dry-out: Only once during nib exchange.  
• Start-up: No. 
• Saturation: No. 
• Shading Potential: No.
• Sheen: Same as above. 
• Spread / Feathering / Woolly Line: Nope. 
• Nib Creep / “Crud”: No. 
• Staining (pen): No. 
• Clogging: No. 
• Cleaning: Easy
• Water resistance: Excellent.
• Availability: 50 ml bottle. 

 

Please don't hesitate to share your experience, writing samples or any other comments. The more the merrier  

 

 

 

[Penguincollector]

  I was waiting for this review. I haven’t bought this ink yet, but it’s in my Vanness cart. I want it for the bottle art mainly, but the brown is a nice shade. I think it would look good on cream paper. I was thinking of using it with dip pens or maybe a Preppy. Your penguin and friends are adorable! Thank you for doing such a thorough review.

[LizEF]

  On 11/29/2023 at 12:37 PM, yazeh said:

brown penguins

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https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=brown+penguins

 

Awwww, cute little baby penguins have brown fuzzy feathers (this one must be almost mature enough to molt, given how big he is):

 

Thank you, @yazeh, for the review and for the fuzzy baby penguin discovery!

 

The chroma's not exciting, but from the photo, I suspect I would like this ink.  It seems I just like various shades of brown.

 

Meanwhile, what a sophisticated trio you've drawn!  I had a hard time making up my mind, but I've decided the Mr. Penguin isn't the butler, he just really likes martinis.    And Mr. Mouse is being dramatic again.  Meanwhile, Mr. Kitty is putting on his best show of indifference while secretly longing to knock those martinis out of Mr. Penguin's wing!

[yazeh]

  On 11/29/2023 at 3:13 PM, Penguincollector said:

  I was waiting for this review.

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  On 11/29/2023 at 3:13 PM, Penguincollector said:

I haven’t bought this ink yet, but it’s in my Vanness cart.

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You've been showing a lot of restraint 🐧

  On 11/29/2023 at 3:13 PM, Penguincollector said:

I want it for the bottle art mainly, but the brown is a nice shade. I think it would look good on cream paper. I was thinking of using it with dip pens or maybe a Preppy.

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These inks have been surprisingly well behaved. But preppy/ plaisir is a good bet

  On 11/29/2023 at 3:13 PM, Penguincollector said:

Your penguin and friends are adorable!

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Thank you 🙏

  On 11/29/2023 at 3:13 PM, Penguincollector said:

Thank you for doing such a thorough review.

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A pleasure!

[yazeh]

  On 11/29/2023 at 3:45 PM, LizEF said:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=brown+penguins

 

Awwww, cute little baby penguins have brown fuzzy feathers (this one must be almost mature enough to molt, given how big he is):

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Thanks for sharing that, I wasn't aware of that. Now if you'll be kind enough to find a violet giraffe it would be nice

 

  On 11/29/2023 at 3:45 PM, LizEF said:

 

Thank you, @yazeh, for the review and for the fuzzy baby penguin discovery!

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🙏

  On 11/29/2023 at 3:45 PM, LizEF said:

 

The chroma's not exciting, but from the photo, I suspect I would like this ink.  It seems I just like various shades of brown.

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Yes it's the darker version of Colibri Brown

 

  On 11/29/2023 at 3:45 PM, LizEF said:

 

Meanwhile, what a sophisticated trio you've drawn!  I had a hard time making up my mind, but I've decided the Mr. Penguin isn't the butler, he just really likes martinis.    And Mr. Mouse is being dramatic again.  Meanwhile, Mr. Kitty is putting on his best show of indifference while secretly longing to knock those martinis out of Mr. Penguin's wing!

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You got it! These drawing start from different doodles and then they morph into something I never could've Imagined

 

[Penguincollector]

  On 11/29/2023 at 4:19 PM, yazeh said:

 

You've been showing a lot of restraint 🐧

These inks have been surprisingly well behaved. But preppy/ plaisir is a good bet

Thank you 🙏

A pleasure!

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    It’s more that I forgot about it until I saw your review. Next time I get to needing a new ink fix, I know where to go. 
  To go with @LizEF’s findings, there are also little blue penguins, but I have yet to see a violet giraffe. A regular one did eat my husband’s ice cream cone at the zoo when he was a kid, took it right out of his hand. 

[yazeh]

  On 11/29/2023 at 4:46 PM, Penguincollector said:

    It’s more that I forgot about it until I saw your review. Next time I get to needing a new ink fix, I know where to go. 

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  On 11/29/2023 at 4:46 PM, Penguincollector said:

 

 To go with @LizEF’s findings, there are also little blue penguins,

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They must be so cute

 

  On 11/29/2023 at 4:46 PM, Penguincollector said:

 

but I have yet to see a violet giraffe. A regular one did eat my husband’s ice cream cone at the zoo when he was a kid, took it right out of his hand. 

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That must have been one greedy 🦒

[LizEF]

  On 11/29/2023 at 4:36 PM, yazeh said:

Now if you'll be kind enough to find a violet giraffe it would be nice

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I actually tried that already (along with a red koala) and didn't find anything (except a red panda).

 

 

  On 11/29/2023 at 4:36 PM, yazeh said:

You got it! These drawing start from different doodles and then they morph into something I never could've Imagined

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  ...could never have imagined, until your imagination pushes it through your fingers onto the paper!   Imagination is a miraculous thing!

[LizEF]

  On 11/29/2023 at 4:46 PM, Penguincollector said:

A regular one did eat my husband’s ice cream cone at the zoo when he was a kid, took it right out of his hand. 

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  I went on a photo safari to Africa back in the 1990s, and one of our stops was basically a country club / game preserve.  Since there were no predatory animals, you could walk among the other animals.  My traveling companion walked out and encountered warthogs (skittish, never got close), zebras (more skittish, never got close), and a herd of giraffe.  As we approached, the biggest one ambled over to us.  His feet were the size of serving platters!  Dude was a giant!  Bigger than anything I'd ever seen in a zoo.  We were quite certain he could have squashed us under those feet (and my traveling companion was 6'2" or 3").  I think we stopped at around 10 or 12 feet from Mr. Giraffe - didn't dare get closer.

 

When we returned to the "country club" a waiter asked about our walk.  We told him about the giraffes and he said, "You could have gotten closer, but you were probably afraid."  We smiled and nodded.  Apparently you can touch the giraffes, they don't mind.  To us it seemed like the leader of the herd coming over to shoo us away.

[inkstainedruth]

What a cool story!  

My parents took a trip to a bunch of pafari parks in Kenya, but I don't think they were anywhere they were allowed to walk around -- although one night the place they stayed was in treehouses surrounding a waterhole, and my dad woke my mom up in the middle of the night to see a herd of elephants drift in, be there for a while, and then drift back out.  My mom told me the elephants were like ghosts, they were so quiet!  [Carl Sandburg got that "Fog" poem totally wrong -- it's ELEPHANTS that are quiet -- cats go THUMP THUMP THUMP around your house.... ].  And my dad sent a copy of the photo he took of a leopard at another place to the guide, as proof to upcoming tours that yes, they DID see it (their two busses were apparently the ONLY tour that got to see the leopard, right after it got a gazelle -- the guide knew SOMETHING was up because all the animals were looking in the same direction, and the bus drivers worked their way around so that the busses came in from the other way...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[LizEF]

  On 11/29/2023 at 7:57 PM, inkstainedruth said:

[Carl Sandburg got that "Fog" poem totally wrong -- it's ELEPHANTS that are quiet -- cats go THUMP THUMP THUMP around your house.... ].

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Elephants in the wild can be HUGE as well!  Bigger than the ones you see in zoos.  And the babies are adorable.

[yazeh]

  On 11/29/2023 at 6:48 PM, LizEF said:

I actually tried that already (along with a red koala) and didn't find anything (except a red panda).

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  On 11/29/2023 at 6:48 PM, LizEF said:

 

 

  ...could never have imagined, until your imagination pushes it through your fingers onto the paper!   Imagination is a miraculous thing!

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👏

@LizEF @Penguincollector @inkstainedruthI love it when a thread goes on a safari on its own. 🙏 

[Penguincollector]

*puts on most useful cargo skirt and pith helmet*  what pen would you take? I would buy a fireblue Kaweco Liliput EF just for this occasion. I would also take a tiny notebook with heavy paper so I can write on both sides. 

[LizEF]

  On 11/29/2023 at 10:40 PM, Penguincollector said:

*puts on most useful cargo skirt and pith helmet*  what pen would you take? I would buy a fireblue Kaweco Liliput EF just for this occasion. I would also take a tiny notebook with heavy paper so I can write on both sides. 

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Having been there and done that (no camping, just lodge-to-lodge), any journal is fine, and your pen isn't likely to be harmed, but my Karas Kustoms Fountain K Mini would be good, as would a VP (so I can take notes about photos on the move).  And no way would I wear a skirt.  Jeans, cargo pants, or shorts, boots, t-shirt, maybe a photographer's / fisherman's vest.  (Of course, God is the only person who can get me to wear a skirt, so I guess that's not saying much.  But I do remember the time our van got stuck in mud and the driver and my companion got out to push while I drove.  In other circumstances, I might have been one of the folks out in the mud pushing, so....)

 

Take fewer clothes than there are days in the trip and launder them as needed - take clothes you can launder in the sink and air dry - though many lodges have laundry service.

 

In Kenya, go to Meru - assuming it's still there - if you go just before the rainy season you might get lucky, like we did, and be the only people at the entire lodge - you'll get three waiters each and two of them will be there to keep the monkeys from joining you.

[yazeh]

  On 11/29/2023 at 11:00 PM, LizEF said:

Having been there and done that (no camping, just lodge-to-lodge), any journal is fine, and your pen isn't likely to be harmed, but my Karas Kustoms Fountain K Mini would be good, as would a VP (so I can take notes about photos on the move).  And no way would I wear a skirt.  Jeans, cargo pants, or shorts, boots, t-shirt, maybe a photographer's / fisherman's vest.  (Of course, God is the only person who can get me to wear a skirt, so I guess that's not saying much.  But I do remember the time our van got stuck in mud and the driver and my companion got out to push while I drove.  In other circumstances, I might have been one of the folks out in the mud pushing, so....)

 

Take fewer clothes than there are days in the trip and launder them as needed - take clothes you can launder in the sink and air dry - though many lodges have laundry service.

 

In Kenya, go to Meru - assuming it's still there - if you go just before the rainy season you might get lucky, like we did, and be the only people at the entire lodge - you'll get three waiters each and two of them will be there to keep the monkeys from joining you.

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I haven't laughed this hard in such a long time...   

I guess if God had a sense of humour he would just create the 11th commandment, just to bring some mirth to our crazy world

[Sailor Kenshin]

I like the ink color and its chroma AND the comparisons.  Of course everyone likes fluffy penguins.

 

And I love the artwork.  The thought of a stogie-chompin' Kitteh with Parachute Mousie and Penguin with martinis makes me smile.

 

Thanks once again, @yazeh, for the visual treat!  👍🏻

[yazeh]

  On 11/30/2023 at 7:41 PM, Sailor Kenshin said:

I like the ink color and its chroma AND the comparisons.  Of course everyone likes fluffy penguins.

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Who doesn't?  🐧

  On 11/30/2023 at 7:41 PM, Sailor Kenshin said:

 

And I love the artwork.  The thought of a stogie-chompin' Kitteh with Parachute Mousie and Penguin with martinis makes me smile.

 

Thanks once again, @yazeh, for the visual treat!  👍🏻

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🙏

[LizEF]

  On 11/30/2023 at 7:25 PM, yazeh said:

I haven't laughed this hard in such a long time...   

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Glad I could bring some laughter to your day.  (Though now I'm curious which part of my story was so amusing.)

 

  On 11/30/2023 at 7:25 PM, yazeh said:

I guess if God had a sense of humour he would just create the 11th commandment, just to bring some mirth to our crazy world

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I expect God does have a sense of humor.  Not sure what that 11th commandment would be though - thou shalt not let monkeys dine with you?  Thou shalt help get safari vans unstuck from the mud?  While wearing a skirt!?   (I'd have a hard time with that one.  I seems I was born hating skirts and dresses...)

[Sailor Kenshin]

  On 11/30/2023 at 8:19 PM, LizEF said:

Glad I could bring some laughter to your day.  (Though now I'm curious which part of my story was so amusing.)

 

I expect God does have a sense of humor.  Not sure what that 11th commandment would be though - thou shalt not let monkeys dine with you?  Thou shalt help get safari vans unstuck from the mud?  While wearing a skirt!?   (I'd have a hard time with that one.  I seems I was born hating skirts and dresses...)

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Sigh…. I used to love them.  Actually I still do, in the summer.

[yazeh]

  On 11/30/2023 at 8:19 PM, LizEF said:

Glad I could bring some laughter to your day.  (Though now I'm curious which part of my story was so amusing.)

 

I expect God does have a sense of humor.  Not sure what that 11th commandment would be though - thou shalt not let monkeys dine with you?  Thou shalt help get safari vans unstuck from the mud?  While wearing a skirt!?   (I'd have a hard time with that one.  I seems I was born hating skirts and dresses...)

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Thou Shalt wear a skirt @ Safaris