Danbooru

Fountain and nib pens as medium

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I think it should just be pen (medium). Nib pen is the best possible name if you really want to avoid ballpoint pen / rollerball pen art, but professional non-nib pens can produce the same output on paper. You don't have to look too far in art and image searches to find non-nib pen art that is visually indistinguishable from nib pen art.

Typically, if you can tell art was drawn with a non-nib pen (and not just because the ink is blue), it was probably either:

  • drawn with a shit pen, or
  • not high quality anime-style art, often evident by shading using less pen pressure instead of hatching/stippling techniques.

So if it's called pen (medium), 99% of the posts will be with nib pens anyway.

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