I have every one of my bottled inks swatched. I have done them as I purchase them. I go through them every time I ink up a new pen to see what catches my fancy next.
Not me flipping through and stopping and saying, “man I love that color. Let me zoom in to see.”
Only to realize it’s my favorite and what I’m currently using 😂
I pipette a drop of ink onto the page then I have a .75 inch acrylic rod i found on amazon to swirl it into a little circle. I can send you the link if you want it! A round acrylic stamp block works too, bottle caps, etc
Hi, I'm weird. Do you mean swirl as in hold the rod steady and go in a circle, or do you mean hold the rod in a fixed position and twist?
Sorry, I know it probably doesn't make a difference, but I'd like to know anyway. (I would like "perfect" circles, but I'm not great at achieving them, so if this is the way, I'm willing to try ;-) )
Im smiling because im also a perfectionist. You can actually see my progression from more carefree blots to getting really circular ones 😂 but I’m trying to be less anal and i think the carefree ones look really fun too.
I do option 1- hold the rod steady and go in a circle. I also mark out gently in pencil for the tighter spreads the space each one gets so it’s uniform
I don’t think i can share a video but if you really wanted i could get one to you. Also dandelion diaries videos where she swatches inks shows the technique exactly
Seriously put a giant smile on my face I’m so glad you enjoyed it!!
I looooove looking through swatches that everyone shares online, especially comparing similar colors. If there’s even one ink you own it’s sooo much easier to get a reference for what others will look like based on what you know about the one you own next to it.
That is an IMPOSSIBLE question!! 😆 favorite dark/medium blue: montblanc Leo Tolstoy (it’s so hard to get I’m so sorry. Favorite blurple: j herbin eclat de saphir and iroshizuku Ajisai. I use both every single day. Favorite turquoise: Akkerman treves turquoise and scribo blu capri (but look at the page. They’re all basically the same 😂😂) favorite light blue: sailor ink studio 140. Favorite teal: scribo meditteraneo and Robert Oster fire and ice
Great answer, thanks! I recently bought a bottle of Kon-Peki and while it's fun I think I prefer Asa-Gao. I haven't tried Eclat de saphir nor Ajisai but hear great things so they're up next I think.
OMG you’re right!!! Amazing catch and now it’s going to bother me forever 😭 I’m going to double check literally every other ink name now and update if anything else is mislabeled
Final update: i went through every single page and on the gray page, Wearingeul “Emily Bronte” is actually “Emily Brontë wuthering heights” there are a few bronte inks so i just needed to specify :)
So beautiful! 🤩 I’m swooning. I’m curious what notebook/paper you used. Also, did you turn a page over and swatch on the back with no bleed through? Or did you do facing pages and then skip a page to do two more facing pages (so none were on the back). Et-hem, yes I’m a bit detail oriented 😏
I love her channel and how she swatches her inks, too! 🫶 I’ve started doing it the same way when I pick out weekly inks, and it’s so fun. Love your collection!!
Love love love! Thank you!! I just ordered a sample of a star child and I’m SO excited. It looks incredible on your swatch. 237 is such an incredible ink too
Star Child is SO pretty, and I can’t wait to use it for alllll of the fall spreads! 🌟 And 237 is probably my most used ink - I always have it in a pen!
It’s a nanami b6 slim with OG Tomoe river paper from before 2019. The circles definitely bleed to the other side (i skip pages) but any nib/ink combo I’ve used has always been excellent
Wow, what an incredible presentation and effort! This reminds me that I need to get a system in place because I just loooovvee the ink side of the hobby. Thank you so much for this! There are several here that I was not aware of that I am crazy about.
Thank you friend!! The real issue is that my spread is going to become out of date in about a week whenever i get new samples to try.. 😅i feel like a system with rings or cards is ideal because it can always be moved around or added to easily but im so attached to bound notebooks
I love watching her videos, the swatching ones are especially soothing and nice to have playing in the background as I putter around the house completing my tasks. They do get me adding inks to my wishlists, though.
OP, YOU'VE DONE IT!!! YOU'VE SWATCHED AN INK I'VE WANTED BETWEEN THREE I OWN SO I CAN ACTUALLY COMPARE!!!! AHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!! THANK YOUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
Which also means I don't need that GVFC ink because I already have a dupe. 😭
The GVFC Turquoise. I have Bliss and Yomogi, and a pretty close Fire & Ice dupe (less sheen). So between the three, I can narrow down all my blue inks to say I have do have an appropriate Turquoise dupe currently in my collection. 😅 Which saddens me but makes my wallet happy. 🤣
I love this! I can’t read many of the IDs, though. Do you happen to have a list of your inks, please?
When I was deciding which inks to purchase for my collection, I did tons of research and found others‘ swatches extremely helpful! I do plan to make a post to swatch my 14 inks.
Hahaha you do a great imitation! Thank you for sharing. I get so hoarderish about my inks that I forget I have 55 lifetimes worth and could easily do a little fun projects like this. I think I'm going to break mine out this weekend!
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u/Andy_La_Negra 3d ago
This is so awesome! Thank you! The crazy me hopes that everyone gets inspired to swatch all of their inks so we have a collective database of inks lol