I love the new nibs that I bought from a local art shop. It’s very, very rare to find them — they are very old, and came all the way from England. They have etchings on them that says “Kingsley Inks Wells & Co”, with numbers that I can’t really make out.

I spent a few hours engrossed with them — dipping them into drawing ink that I got from Japan (really beautiful black, waterproof ink). I covered about 5 pages in my sketchbook and my journal.

I am in love with how organic the lines are — and how it’s easier to control than brushes. From now on, these will be my main mode of inking. And it’s hard to describe, but when I held the pen in my hand, I had this feeling that the phantom tool that I had long searched for had finally become real.