Winsor & Newton Drawing Ink – William Collection Pack

I love these inks. I am still getting to know them and use them, but I love them so far. I have one caveat though, and that is that the black in my set was leaking. The box corners, and the label on the bottle, were gummy with black ink, and It took some effort to clean it up. I am okay with this though, because every time I have ordered black ink, it always seems to leak a little. The bottles were secure, the lid had just untwisted a little bit in the box. I still had more than half the bottle left to use, and the other inks were fine. Just don’t wear a white shirt on the day you plan on receiving and opening the ink.

(For reference, I ordered the William collection pack)The colors are pretty, but these inks are NOT permanent. I had left them to dry for many hours, and they still smeared and bled in the most ugly manner. the only one to not do so is the black indian ink. On top of that, the vermilion bottle wasn’t closed properly before shipping and a good amount of the ink had spilled everywhere in the package. Several of the boxes were coated in dried ink and had to be thrown away, which is a shame as they were very pretty boxes. (As a side note, I decided to see if the ink on the packaging would reactivate with water just for fun, and sure enough, it reactivated like crazy!)It really isn’t worth buying this set of inks when cheap watercolor cakes are more permanent and just plain work better than these. I’m an illustrator and I would never use these in my work unless it was a throw away sketch or concept.If someone told me that the normal inks had been switched with the cal

Winsor and Newton drawing ink is, in a word, incredible. This is one of two sets, but aside from both having black their colors are a bit different. I believe the Henry collection pack has slightly darker tones and more secondary colors while the William collection is brighter. Both sets are boldly colored and will definitely pull their weight while drawing with them.Regarding the ink itself, it’s dye-based and has a range of applications. You can do line art, paint (ink?) in colors, use a dipping pen for writing (do NOT use a fountain pen, it wasn’t made for this kind of ink!), and if you’re daring you could also mix the colors together for new combinations. If you need a light tone, simply thin it out with water. All colors are water resistant once they’re on the page, so they will not be smearing easily.The ink dries reasonably quickly, doesn’t bleed, and its transparency allows for colors to be layered on top of one another for added depth. My only gripe is

The media could not be loaded. I bought Henry Collection pack and love the vibrancy of colors. I bought them for painting and nib pen and modern calligraphy. I was hoping I could use them for lineart before watercolors but, as you can see in the video, all of them (except for the black) bleed. Brown doesn’t bleed too much, so it can work if you are careful not to brush heavily on top of it.Things I really loved is that you can mix them to create new colors, you can also blend them while applying (like the green/blue/yellow on the leaf of the video) and they can dry as smooth blends (although it dries fast). When diluted with water you can create soft pastels which are still vibrant. The way they look reminds me of copic markers, so I will use them as a cheaper alternative.Because of all the uses I can give to them (painting with them similar to watercolors, or for calligraphy or even instead of alcohol ink markers), I would definitely recommend them. Also becaus

This set of inks is great. The color selection is fantastic, the quality and pigmentation is great, I honestly think if I were more experienced with inks and better at using them this would be 5 stars.Im still learning so Ive been struggling with some things. For instance, Im used to painting with watercolor and in school used sumi inks. I tried painting with these in that way and learned the ink likes to completely soak to the other side of multiple kinds of watercolor paper. I have been experimenting with using dip pens with these for lineart, painting with diluted ink for shading (because they are waterproof once dry so I can glaze watercolor over them) and so far its been a really really fun experience!It would be nice if info or demos were available like in a paper pamphlet or something in the package but its not necessary as these are very easy to play with and learn with and a little goes such a long way Ive had these for months now and the bottles are stil