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Preparing Dip Pen Nibs: To Burn or Not to Burn? by tenebris-miles, journal

Preparing Dip Pen Nibs: To Burn or Not to Burn?

Feb 27, 2013

Dip pen nibs are usually protected with oils or coatings to prevent them from rusting. The problem with leaving the oil on the nib is that it prevents the ink from adhering to the reservoir and the tip, which causes the ink to blotch or skip. In order to prevent this problem, people will prepare their nibs to improve the flow of ink. A lot of advice on the internet says that you should burn the nib under a candle or cigarette lighter in order to remove this protective coating. Some people will even say that they like to make the nib glow red hot. Do NOT do this. Burning is a terrible idea, and people should stop spreading this very bad advic

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Artist // Professional // Varied

Oct 5
United States
Deviant for 18 years
He / Him

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My Bio

Retired: graphic artist, technical illustrator, instructor, filmmaker, animator

Current Residence: Texas Gulf Coast

Favourite genre of music: Symphonic rock, classic rock and roll

Favourite style of art: Classic 1930's animation, art deco

Operating System: Windows 10

Favourite cartoon character: Betty Boop, Astroboy, Buttercup, and Hatsune Miku

Personal Quote: Life is short, enjoy everything!

Favourite Visual Artist

Osamu Tezuka, Robert Crumb, Grim Natwick, George Pal, Hayao Miyazaki

Favourite Movies

The Puppetoon Movie, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, Lilo and Stitch

Favourite TV Shows

Astroboy, Powerpuff Girls

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

Electric Light Orchestra

Favourite Writers

Issac Asimov

Tools of the Trade

Pencil, paper, scanner, computer, Paint Tool SAI, Serif DrawPlus. Clip Studio Paint Pro, Medibang Paint Pro

Other Interests

Cartoons, animation, filmmaking

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HMontes

Jan 14, 2024

Easing Into The New Year

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So I'm still around and getting better and stronger. My health is still an issue but I got a good handle on it. Now as for the creative front: recently when I installed Tahoma2D I found a feature I could make good use of. For those who don't know it Tahoma2D is an animation program based on the open source OpenToonz program based on the software used by Studio Ghibli. It's worth looking into because it has so many great features and has a nice drawing engine to make animation with raster or vector lines and shading. And it's FREE. What got me excited was the stop motion menu which with a webcam you can shoot frames of stop motion puppets directly into the software. I had the inspiration to use this for filming pencil animation instead of using a scanner. So with the help of browsing eBay and Amazon I got the necessary equipment to make a pencil test stand. From eBay came a copy stand and a high definition webcam. From Amazon came the hardware to adapt the camera to the copy stand. A

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HMontes

Feb 27, 2022

Update on my life

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Some of you have been wondering what has happened to me. Well I'm still around and visiting once in a while. My health has been on an even keel but not at the level I like. The creative spirit is still there but the physical body is so weak. And having to deal with so much going on in my life has taken a lot of free time away from me. I still get requests to do art but I really don't want to do them. I feel like I want to explore more of the art and ideas I want to do. I am moving away from doing analog (pencil and ink on paper) and more toward digital art since some new software programs have appeared making some artistic possibilities exciting. My home situation has changed a lot in the past year. The old house our family occupied for many years has finally reached it's end. The ceiling has collapsed in places as well as the floor. Also the electrical wiring has gone out in some parts of the house along with the plumbing. So we had to buy a large house trailer to place on

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HMontes

Jan 1, 2020

Happy Birthday to my late brother, Jose.

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I still think of him every year. Especially on the day of his birth. The world lost a very talented person when he passed.

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CountLimbourg

Feb 15, 2024

I miss your PPG stuff.

Happy Birthday~!!!

Do Bubbles Weight Gain comic

katamariluv

Aug 17, 2022

I wish to warn you that a user named roselover200310 is spamming the comments sections of your art and completely missing the point of the jokes you made. You may wish to block him.

baileyartlover00

May 14, 2022

Hey, just a reminder, am gonna unwatch your profile because there are bullies who keep going into my stuff and wouldn't leave it alone. So don't feel like that not only am unwatchable you doesn't mean I don't wanna be your friend anymore, am only unwatching because a certain bully who is a another bully fan by the name dreamerstuidos and the bully named fractal-silk is spreading a demonatizing rants about my issue, which is why I want to un watch you because I don't expect that bully fractal-silk coming to u you. I've lost too many friends so this is why am gonna unwatch because am sick and tired of fractal-silk going everywhere on my page. Also another reason why because am deactivating my deviantart account soon because of bullies looking into my stuff. So I hope u have discord or Instagram.

HMontes

May 15, 2022

Sorry to hear about your troubles with bullies. I'm not on discord or Instagram but I do have a Twitter which is not very active since I recently joined.

baileyartlover00

May 15, 2022

Do u have any other contactable social medias or an email to keep in touch on?