Today’s review is a bit different – I am showing the first half of the inks in this line rather than a more in-depth look. Vanness Pen Shop recently added a new ink manufacturer by the name of Octopus. Octopus has various lines of ink, one being the Write & Draw line which consists of 25 pigment inks.
Each of the inks in the Write & Draw line come in a 50mL glass bottle for $17.33, about $0.35 per mL.
The Write & Draw inks are all named for the color and an animal – none that match the usual color of the animal, however! Yellow Zebra, Brown Penguin, and Brown Colibri are up first.
Red Duck, Orange Skunk, and Pink Gazelle:
Pink Alpaca, Red Turtle, Pink Owl:
Violet Raccoon, Violet Bee, Violet Lion, and Blue Chameleon:
Octopus Write & Draw inks on Cosmo Air Light 83gsm paper:
Octopus Write & Draw inks on Midori MD paper:
Octopus Write & Draw inks on Tomoe River 52gsm (TR7) paper:
Octopus Write & Draw inks on Midori Cotton paper:
Next week I’ll show the remaining 12 Write & Draw inks along with a look at the level of water resistance offered by these pigment inks.
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I bought myself a set of these and they not only really do the job, but they are a lovely range of colors. Once dry you can draw and paint over the top with no line lost or color stain. I have a few other pigment inks, the Rohrer & Klingner may be similar but Kakimori Mukuri, which is the most gorgeous brown, needs about a day to dry, whereas these are done in a minute or two.
Of the ones I have my favorites are Green Crane, Blue Chameleon and Pink Alpacca, but there are a few shown here that look worth investigating – that Red Turtle (or maybe Red Duck?) looks like a lovely sanguine!