Grand Allusions

Gesture Doodles

Posted by trev | Filed under Figure Drawing, Moleskine

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Some more one minute sketches with the LAMY Safari Fountain Pen.

Tags: figure, Figure Drawing, gesture, gesture drawings, LAMY Safari Fountain Pen, model, Moleskine

Comments (0) | July 27th, 2010

Going on a Safari

Posted by trev | Filed under Figure Drawing

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Based on a recommendation from a friend, I decided to give the LAMY Safari Fountain Pen a try. My history with fountain pens has been a bit checkered. I liked the idea of the fountain pen, but I was always hesitant to invest the money into a buying a good one. As a result, I would buy cheap disposable pens and always be disappointed by the performance.

Enter the LAMY Safari Fountain Pen. While by no means cheap (it usually runs around $20-30), it has a reputation for offering similar performance compared to much more expensive fountain pens. After putting my new Safari through it’s paces for the past couple of weeks, I can say that the pen’s reputation is well deserved. Ink flows freely and the line it produces is very pleasing.

One word of advice for anyone looking to give this pen a try. The pen uses ink cartridges, which I found severely lacking. The black ink was a bit faded and it was not waterproof. Fortunately, there is an alternative. LAMY offers a converter that allows you to fill the pen with the ink of your choice, which in my case is the excellent Noodler’s Bulletproof Black ink. Armed with the Noodler’s ink, the Safari really sings.

The drawings above were gesture drawings from a recent figure drawing session. Each pose was about one or two minutes. All drawing were done with my new Safari.

Tags: Figure Drawing, fountain pen, gesture drawings, LAMY Safari Fountain Pen, model, Moleskine, Noodler's Bulletproof Black ink

Comments (0) | July 15th, 2010