ROYAL TALENS NORTH AMERICA TALENS DRAWING INK BLACK, One Size

Lovely, lovely properly black ink at a very reasonable price.

I do a lot of pen and ink wash illustrations that end up reproduced on ceramics, and I’ve typically either used Jackson’s brand Indian ink, Noodlers or Martin’s Bombay black with brushes and dip pens, and then I use Rotring tech pen ink in my isographs as well as refilling pentel brush pens with it.This Talens ink is way darker than any of those, much more pigmented and requires a lot more dilution to create similar values in washes.Some Indian inks dilute to a warm grey or even slightly brownish hue when diluted, and I find my noodlers black ink does the opposite and gives a bluish hue in washes — this Talens ink is a neutral grey, which is useful for me.It does have the same tendency as Indian inks to get a bit reflective under direct light on ares you’ve applied thickly with a brush — this can be a pain if you’re intending to reproduce images via scanning, as often what you intended to be the very darkest reflect the scanner’s beam so much that they throw the whole value off. You can beat this with a coat of watered down matte medium — but this makes your original look like a print, if that matters — as it flattens things out and you have to apply it all over.It’s thick, but smooth, and so far hasn’t blocked a .25 tech pen that I have decided to risk as an experiment with this ink!

Very good black ink for line work with nibs and spit shading, dries well and can layer over it....

Fake poison

Product was as described

I am a line art artist (comics) and have tried MANY different types of inks. But this one is by far the darkest, beautiful and smoothest . I realize that this item is mainly for tattoos, but believe me, it is a gorgeous ink for paper artists, too.