Approximating about 130 hours to complete each piece, an illustrator strives to revive his long-dormant passion for hand-drawing by adopting a ballpoint pen. The 40-year-old artist Paul Kobriger works ...

Learn how to get ink flowing from a ballpoint, gel, rollerball, or fountain pen, how to judge the result, and when to replace ...

At its most basic, a pen has to do just one thing, but there are so many reasons to choose one over another. Does it glide along the page, or does it drag? Does the ink flow in a smooth line, or is it ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When I turned 10, I was finally allowed to own a pen. At school, that was when we moved from pencils to ink, and our parents were told to get ...

However, with a nib or fountain pen, the ink flows out under gravity or, in more elaborate fountain pens, the force of a piston. In addition, writing with them required great concentration to avoid ...

What’s traditionally a messy analog medium can be transformed with smart pens and styli, delivering organized, structured data that you can keep forever. Some options record what you’re writing using ...

Fountain pens were a stylish statement but messy and impractical. Their replacement was a stroke of design genius perfectly in time for the era of mass production. On 29 October 1945, the New York ...