In the comments to
this drawing, 
Hive account@arseniclullaby asked if I had used a crow quill pen, and I had to answer that it was all digital, as that is the media I am mainly using under the pseudonym, Katharsisdrill. I realised that I have actually never really done any serious drawings with quills, but always preferred the sable brush.
So as I recently realised that Moebius (Jean Giraud) made a lot of his drawings with pen (I have imitated him, but with a brush! as I thought that was how it was done), as 
Hive account@mikkolyytinen makes some beautiful drawings with quill pen, and as I love the drawings of the eighteen century artists - I have decided to learn to use it.
First problem: I realised that I had to have a small bottle for the ink. Normally I use something more flat for the brush as it bends and a glass for the water. But a pen needs a small bottle. Then I remembered that my wife had bought some old ink-bottles when she was in South Africa. A guy found them in old trash heaps and sold them cheap at a market. Probably late nineteenth, early twentieth century.
Paper no. 1 - I had a hard time getting the pen flowing, but after a while I got the hang of it.
Another page, just doodling.
I then made a pencil drawing -planning to ink it. But the small portable light table was in use (
Hive account@scarlet-rain) so I forgot about it and started on something else.
A finished drawing. I have called it, Joulupukki, in honour of the pen master Hive account@mikkolyytinen.
Well... I have to work a bit on this thing, but it is actually more funny than I thought. The more or less fixed line width makes it necessary to cross-hatch a lot, but I guess that has its own charm.
The pens are courtesy of my daughter Hive account@scarlet-rain.
