I started learning inking with nibs and brushes round about ’94. I pretty quickly became a just brush inker. Then for a long time (hmm, six years?) I wasn’t inking anything at all, just pencilling.

Then recently I started inking some illos for a project, and got great (to me) results out of my nibs (hunts 102)

stuff like this (these are details only ’cause I can’t show the finished illos yet):

http://www.cheeseman-meyer.com/art/sket … monkey.jpg

http://www.cheeseman-meyer.com/art/sket … 1train.jpg

The ink flowed, the pen did what I wanted to, the line was flexible and expressive.

Then suddenly, it stopped working. The last three illos I’ve tried to ink I’ve given up in frustration, and finished in markers and brushes. The ink won’t come off my nib. It just stays there, no matter how much I overload it. Full nib of ink, seven or eight scratches into the paper before one of them lays down a line. Or I need to press the nib into the paper, count to three, then start drawing and that’ll get a line (usually). It’s the same stock of paper, same ink. Same nib (though I washed it) and have tried my other nibs with similar problems.

Anyone have any tips on how to alleviate this problem? It’s really making it impossible for me.

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