Last year my friend Audrey gave me this sketch for my birthday. It’s drawn by John Kricfalusi, creator of the Ren & Stimpy cartoons, and signed by himself and Billy West, who did the voices for Ren & Stimpy and a lot of the voices on Futurama right now. She showed John K the self-pic below and he drew this for me. I finally got a frame for it so I was just excited and thought I’d nerd out and share it with y’all. Click the pic to see the flickr page.
My next letter goes to driftingfocus. She just seemed to randomly find me on flickr and asked to be Pen Pals. So I’m really excited to hear back from her. Just finished this today at Victrola Roasteria on Pike. It took me about four hours total.
Pens: Pelikan 140, Namiki Vanishing Point, Reform 1745, Esterbrook J
Ink: Private Reserve Midnight Blues, Private Reserve Orange Crush, Noodler’s Bulletproof Black
Paper: Rhodia #16 80 g/m^2, various sketchpads.
To see all my letters and postcards, choose the “Letter Exchangeness” category.
Ideas flowing.
After a few tries I got what I wanted.
Other Ideas.
Cut-outs for the envelope.
Basic outline.
Inked pages.
Four pages.
Envelope front.
Envelope back.
Finished Letter!
My second letter exchange partner from the Fountain Pen Network is Ralph Wilson in San Francisco. He sent me a super nice letter and here are the only shots I have of the one I sent him back. To see all my letters and postcards, choose the “Letter Exchangeness” category.
And I brilliantly didn’t take a photo of it before I sent it.
Using my Esterbrook J 2968.
Looking exactly like a madman at Beth's at 2:00 A.M.
Going seismic.
Erase the base.
My first letter exchange on the Fountain Pen Network was with twoodi in Australia. I was really excited to swap with someone so far away. To see all my letters and postcards, choose the “Letter Changeness” category.
Cutting Stuff
Gluing stuff
Wow inking this letter was teeeeedious.
Finished fun page.
Stationery pages finished.
Page one before I wrote on it
Letter Finished!
