Pens need love

I haven’t done a pen drawing in a while and when I finally sat down to draw yesterday my good Pilot fountain pen was not performing as it should. I refilled the converter with ink and continued my drawing but it ran out of ink quickly and the flow of the pen was not great. It was time for a good cleaning.

I flushed it thoroughly with distilled water and refilled it again but it was still not working as I had hoped. So this time I went to the very trusty Goulet Pen website to see what I could do. I followed a long series of instructions to fill my particular converter — empty it, turn it again to prime it with ink, expel all the ink, then fill it partially, turn it this way and that — basically a series of clockwise and counterclockwise acrobatics for my pen. But it worked! The ink is flowing again, the lines are black, and there’s nothing like sitting down to do a drawing of Alice when the snow if falling outside my window and she is exhausted after a walk. Sketched in a tiny Etchr Hot Press sketchbook using a Pilot E95S pen and de Atramentis Document Black ink.