High speed pens.

moonwilson said:
This is probably the one subject in the world in which I could be considered an expert. I'm a professional artist, and I draw/ write pretty much all day, every day- with pens. I have tried and used almost every pen on the market- worldwide. I go through literally thousands of pens and markers a year. I carry my pens around in stuff-sacks, I use so many of them. The best PERFORMING pen, in terms of writing smoothly and evenly- is the Uni-Ball Vision Elite.

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They're not the fanciest, the prettiest, or the most expensive pens in the world, but they do write the best. You can find them almost anywhere.

I also really like Sakura's Pigma Micron series.
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I go through those things like popcorn. They're not the best for writing, but for drawing, they can't be beat.

I really wish there was such a thing as a fancy, high-quality pen that performed well. I would be all over it if there were. I own several of the Fisher Space pens, not to mention high-quality/ expensive fountain pens etc., and nothing comes close to the humble Uni-Ball Vision Elite in terms of line consistency. I like fountain pens a lot, but they can't use high-quality inks (all fountain ink is dye-based) so they're useless to me. If I want fountain pen-type lines, I have to go really old-school, and use dip pens, which I do a lot.
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Where the hell did you find those nibs? It's so hard to track down anything but those $hitty Speedball ones.

I agree with the Sakura Pigma Microns. Even though they don't look fancy they give some of the best lines out there, and are available it a huge range of line thicknesses.

Rotrings are also very solid pens, especially if you like a bit of heft. :)
 
I've had the same Cross pen for about 40 years now. Most of the chrome is worn off so it looks a bit brassy, and it's got some dents here and there. The action is a little notchy from being dented back when I was in the army. But it still writes great, and it gets a refile about once a year or so.

If something happened to it, I wouldn't think about what to replace it with. Just go down to the store and get another Cross just like it.
 
I got some uni-ball pens, the same in the pic and they right pretty good. Not really what I was looking for. In this case I was looking for a good looking pen more then a good writing pen. These look okay, but they write really nice, which is good enough for me.
 
+1 for the Uni-Ball Vision Elite.
My EA (who does shorthand the old-fashioned way and takes great minutes at day-long meetings) swears by them. They're not on our company stationery list so I buy a box for her every now and then (oh and flowers, chocolates etc).
 
moonwilson said:
This is probably the one subject in the world in which I could be considered an expert. I'm a professional artist, and I draw/ write pretty much all day, every day- with pens. I have tried and used almost every pen on the market- worldwide. I go through literally thousands of pens and markers a year. I carry my pens around in stuff-sacks, I use so many of them. The best PERFORMING pen, in terms of writing smoothly and evenly- is the Uni-Ball Vision Elite.

1012679606.jpg


They're not the fanciest, the prettiest, or the most expensive pens in the world, but they do write the best. You can find them almost anywhere.
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Thanks for the info. I bought a pack of them yesterday and they are AWESOME!
 
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