While I suppose that broad nibs have their place, personally, I swear by my fine nib.
On white paper yellowed by time, or on paper he coloured blue or red, Leonardo would draw in ink, chalk, or using the technique known as metal point, in which a fine nib is pressed against a sheet of paper coated with calcinated bone.
A pen with a fine nib works best here, as this is simply another step to clean up the drawing as much inking.
As a child, she said, she preferred fine point nibs, but through college and medical school she graduated to medium, and now, as a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist, she prefers a broad stroke.
Then there's this: one of her most effortless, glorious floor-fillers, ticking the pop-writing rulebook with a fine, golden nib.
A craft lore existed, of pen nibs, fine brushes, blue pencils, art-gum erasers, whiteout, and Higgins India ink.
Yet what is most interesting is how the process has radically changed.In 1987 the artwork was inked onto paper with a Rotring pen (a highly precise pen with a "stylographic" point a fine steel tubed nib, not a rollerball).
Now I want to buy a fountain pen for myself, but first I thought I'd ask some of you veterans, which is the best nib: extra fine, fine, medium, or broad?
View the entire 'This is Not Fine' comic on The Nib. Pepe the Frog's Creator Talks Making Zine History.
(I am not knocking Cosi, I love your basket of free nibs filled with doughy delight).
