Drawing with TECH PENS again after someone explained this to me:

damn, you actually followed through and made a video, i feel so honored!

Nearly 45 years ago I had a mute friend that I worked with who loved to draw using those pens. However instead of lines he would draw really complex and detailed drawings using dots. I used to have one of his drawings of Winnie the Pooh at a picnic drawn on A4 and the page was covered edge to edge and from three feet away it looked like a newspaper photo. He was very precise and very talented and a drawing would take him days to do. So I just wanted to share that story with you and thank you for reminding me of my friend who I haven't seen in nearly the same amount of time.

I don't like to make emotional texts but you are my inspiration to draw things like yours. Thanks for being this awesome person Peter.

I used to be a draughtsman and used these pens exclusively. The problem I think most people have is they are meant to be used on a drawing board and are used at a 90 degree angle to the paper (due to the angle of the drawing board which is almost vertical) This way you get lines that are an accurate width. The paper used was like tracing paper (so you could take a blueprint from a dyeline printer) and it had a smoother more hard wearing surface. When drawing on a table it’s difficult to hold the pen at 90 degrees, so you don’t get the accuracy and the nibs scratch the paper and don’t perform as they should.

There's something special about the lines made by technical pens. Those pens are so temperamental but there's just nothing like them. Thanks for the drawing and the video.

In the old days those technical pens sat straight up for drafting (before CAD). They sat in a mini tripod thingy called a scriber that was used to make perfect lettering. A point fit into the lettering grooves on a ruler with the whole alphabet on it. The pen translated the letters/numbers to the paper/mylar to "write" perfect letters. Then the mylars were able to be printed on a blueline printer. Anyway that process is ancient history. Those pens were never held at a slant. We got quite good at it and fast. It looked exactly like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZRvQDMBEOE

The ISO pen thicknesses are in a specific ratio of Square root of 2 (1.414). These work with with the standard metric paper sizes A0, A1 etc that have sides in the same ratio. This was to suit microfilming of drawings. If an A0 drawing is reduced to A1 size a 0.5mm line thickness reduces to 0.35mm, 0.35mm to 0.25mm etc.

I laughed so hard when he started to actually search for magnifying glasses to buy 😂 ❤️ Love the shirt 🤩

This drawing just boggles my mind! And I learned something new about technical pens today! Thanks, Peter!

I found you again after so long. Seeing your reviews and the beautiful drawings at the end of them always intrigued me when I was younger. Thank you for doing what you do

I went to trade school for drafting in 1986 and used the Kohinoor Jewel tip technical Pens for ink drawings. The ink and the tip you use as well as the paper or vellum make all the difference. I can honestly say the Jewell tip Kohinoor pens are awesome. Very consistent pens and ink

In my younger years I worked at a manufacturing facility. I wrote the procedural documentation so the company maintained their ISO certification. So, that's true about the ISO. To get those letters, there are written procedures of each step to manufacture the product so it is done exactly the same way each time, & quality checks are set in place (i.e. every so many pieces is visually checked) to make sure the product is within tolerance; meaning it's assembled exactly the same way each piece and works (or at least it should be). Thanks for sharing! You're such an amazing artist! Plus, I always enjoy your videos!

I was just thinking the other day that you hadn't used a technical pen for quite some time. I used them a lot in the 70's and 80's doing mostly stipple drawings of wildlife. Those pens were a major pain and all I had to use in them was India ink. Anyway I eventually went to oil painting, then airbrush. Years later while doing taxidermy it became apparent that I saw and thought in 3D, I began doing sculpture and eventually ended up doing woodturning based art. I still keep a doodle going all the time but have settled on using Pentel energel 0.5 which remind me of the tech pens but work better. Mostly I use Pilot G2 pens for my doodles. I seem to ramble on sometimes.

Your hair is looking immaculate my artistic king 💪🫶

you are such an artist been watching ya for years! thank you for giving us this content! never stop being you! <3

Back in the early 80's I worked as a draftsman. One job I had required all work done in ink. Most common of these pens were the metal tipped nibs, such as you have. We usually avoided these as they scratched the volume and were inconsistent, as you are noting. We used the pens with the jeweled nib. These were much smoother and over time wore down a bit to where you could hold them at an angle. I would suggest these if they're still available.

I went to an outdoor Grateful Dead concert, back in the 1980s. There was a plywood floor put on the ground, that we all sat on. The guy next to me, put on 3 pairs of sunglasses, and began burning a picture into the plywood, with a magnifying glass. By the end of the show, he had produced a most wonderful drawing. Thanks for reminding me of that beautiful day 🎶☮❤

Fantastic yellow fingers. Thank you for another enjoyable experience :)

Always love your artwork. It's absolutely amazing to watch you draw them, especially in just typically one pen.

I am really glad that you had a video with technical pens again. You are the reason that I got into them. I learned a lot of techniques on how to clean used ones from Ebay that people didn’t know what they were getting into.