Can you Draw with a Calligraphy Pen? ✍ Pilot Parallel Unboxing

Just goes to show a lot of art supplies are more versatile than we at first give them credit for!
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[@fallingupwards7974]

I want to be a famous artist so people will send me pens

[@adamwest8711]

Falling Upwards - oh for the ability to insert an ‘i’...

[@PeanutStrawberry]

Congratulation! You can! Just draw, draw, draw, aaaand... draw!

[@Oona707]

...and keep drawing!

[@seanwarren9357]

Post and the will come.

[@benjiboi6669]

Same

[@EckeVonDinho]

"Hello everybody. My mame is Peter and I have a box." It just feels so happy and determined. Like he really own the box. With no worries in the world. Just.. Box. His box. Singular. THE box. It just feels so right. Like its all that matters. Mmh, BOX :)

[@yoyolol22]

Cringe bro

[@EckeVonDinho]

@@yoyolol22 Says the guy that just responded to a 2 year old comment :3

[@advanbroekhuizen3346]

i want whatever u smokin joakim

[@mdmajunge]

nespresso is a coffee brand that makes little capsules of coffee to put into your coffee machine. sounds cool but actually creates huge amounts of wasted aluminium capsules, so a pen made of those capsules recycled is very awesome! good video, i enjoyed it!

[@seanwarren9357]

I didn't realize they used aluminum... Wow

[@hemorrhoidsasuke2030]

Thanks kom.... Get it?... Kanye, mom....... Kom... Ok, anyways..

[@OdamaKamayuka]

@@seanwarren9357 Well, you know every soda can is aluminium as well. Don't get me wrong Nespresso creates a lot of unecessary waste but ye, unfortunatly it's a very common thing in our society. At least aluminium is easy to recycle.

[@danielzonneveld5972]

they are recycling the cups mate, my dad has a nespresso machine, he needs to put the used cups into a bag, and every time he orders new cups he has to give the used ones back, so they can recycle them.

[@LQMM]

Nespresso? MORE LIKE DEPRESSO

[@daftoad]

I think we are all able to say that we can make incredible art with a Calligraphy pen Peter

[@peter_draws]

It is settled, then.

[@muimina-]

@@peter_draws Hi. When your'e drawing with a pen like this and a lot of heavy ink is saturating the paper, it appears to me that you will sometimes go over your lines with even more ink. is the ink dry when you go over it again? If not then do you find the paper damages ever? This is a problem I have when using brush pens like Posca and it kind of stresses me out. The paper kind of pulpifies under the pen. Am I using the wrong paper? Thank you.

[@UpstateBreezy]

MUI B use thicker/denser smooth paper.

[@bobbobbington4426]

​@@muimina- ik this is 4 years later but I notice no damage on simple notebook paper with the pilot parallel it does leak to the other side though and sometimes to the next paper but it's chillin

[@GadgeLLMTB]

WOW Peter that's some haul of art supplies you have there.....nice one Goldspot Pens. Nespresso Capsules are those little aluminium pots that contain coffee and you put them in a machine and it makes a nice cuppa coffee.....I think. The Pilot Parallel pens look like fun but I feel have a limited use if you don't do calligraphy writing :-( I don't know, still blown away by the haul from Goldspot!

[@senseweaver01]

50 views and 49 likes. Says a lot about your fanbase :)

[@doodletime9041]

It's the best community ever. I'm serious, almost only nice people here

[@senseweaver01]

Yeah, two dislikes out of over 3,000 views, it's crazy

[@schlubenno3827]

Doodle Time I seriously wonder if there has ever been a negative comment.

[@jordenienatwell1767]

I try to imagine what the video looks like when Peter posts it on Instagram before KZbin

[@haileyrush2736]

every time i get into a rut with my art u bring me right out of it peter!! i havent drawn or painted in like 2 months and now ive made 2 whole water colors and finished an old sketch into an acrylic painting 💖💖 thank u for the inspiration, youve really kept me going over the years

[@AXia415]

Very giggly intro; brought happiness into my day.

[@CU.SpaceCowboy]

“they got their own little lingo to alienate the outsiders” lulz

[@Dustyncolbourne1029]

Press up. Press down. I love that

[@mauricejerome3392]

more arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt !

[@taps9685]

when you said "how many times does a word have to be said to make it real?" it really got me thinking.

[@spiralcraft8957]

i have a syringe that i use to refill empty cartridges works great

[@red_freckle]

That second doodle turned out awesome! Aside from smudginess those parallel pens seem to be pretty damn versatile, might have to pick up a set.

[@jzdpd]

Peter is a cool guy, very cool I may add

[@jesperceria3934]

I would even go as far to say that Peter is an extraordinarily cool guy

[@mauricejerome3392]

@@jesperceria3934 indeed

[@owen9563]

Calligraphic is indeed a word

[@crystalsunshine]

I'm partial to the first drawing, I think because I really like the swoopy lines. The second one looks sharp and makes me think of stubbed toes.

[@SofiNabeel]

That laughter in the beginning is so precious! Peter you’re too good for this world.

[@yvans.73]

Caran D'Ache is a Swiss *company* but the name comes from the Russian word for pencil: karandash. Your pronunciation was pretty close, but idk if the company kept the pronunciation the same.

[@mauricejerome3392]

Thank you for the information, haven't known that. IQ + 0,5

[@danish3453]

Dude you being happy at the start makes me happy

[@taynannataly686]

Look at his curls how angelic he can get?

[@cyanideartdotcom]

haha noodle curls

[@cyanideartdotcom]

Now im hungry

[@OphiuchiChannel]

Haha Leonardo curls

[@munafruit]

that second drawing looks awesome and that g i a n t nib looks like so much fun. ur laugh and ur smile brightens my darkest days. i love you

[@harshitmehrotra6837]

the last two lines of your comment are literally something a person would say if they are proposing to the love of their life

[@munafruit]

Harshit Mehrotra and

[@kingneptune7650]

I liked before watching the video :)

[@mauricejerome3392]

I always do that with Peter's videos. He's amazing!

[@AniYani1]

"Karandash" - it`s by russian - "pencil"

[@dionysostheliberator2287]

Hi, Peter. I’ve been putting inks and liquid watercolours into the back of these pens ( the nib- holder-looking-part) and its been working out pretty good for me. Great drawing, as always :)

[@mothmaiden4413]

Liquid water colors! That's so interesting! I'll hopefully be getting a KAWECO sport for Christmas and I'll have to try that!

[@ariannamartinez4793]

“It’s a pen and it’s got lots of sides” 😂😭

[@ellerikke3948]

Those caligraphy pens looks perfect for thick cartoony lines, that is otherwise only possible with a chisel tip.

[@teddyoggin]

Loved the second drawing. I think the pen would be good for drawing architecture.

[@MathisMathis]

"Hello. My name is Peter and I have a box." -Peter 2018

[@archivist17]

My favourite YT intro ever!

[@George-rv7iy]

1k likes, 5 dislikes. i’m pretty sure that’s the best ratio of likes to dislikes, that i’ve ever seen, congrats

[@loadingerror6239]

"... A NOT box" i dont know why i laughed really hard😂 your humor is amazing. Im new here and im suddenly extremely interested

[@jesusa_ikher]

How's the Peter experience so far?

[@Nuclear187]

Wish I had the talent or skill to do what you do. Ima the kinda person that just sucks at everything .

[@beckettstevens9529]

I'd love to see more with these pens!

[@ColeenLeevis]

Hey Peter! I don't know if you're gonna see this, but one of the biggest advantages of Pilot Parallel pens for art-making is that you can easily do color gradients! If you load a color in one pen, and a different color in another, then you hold the tips next to each other for a while, the color bleeds over and you can easily do a gradient--something to play around with in a future video?

[@kikkerslikker4533]

50 likes, 50 vies *just like the simulations*

[@kurbiskopp6698]

If the pen is only working with cartidges you can take a Pipette (dont know If Thats the right word) and Fill the ink in the empty cartridge so you dont Need to buy the cartridges and with that you have less plasticwaste. Dont know If Thats understandable (My englisch is Not the best) but Thats the way i refill my brushpen when i want to use it Outsider of my house

[@BenFalkenstein]

Probably been said already, but you can fill the handle with ink or re-fill the cartridge. Ecoline ink seems to be the most popular but I've seen others use whatever ink they want. Using the small cartridge allows you to change colors sooner rather than waiting for the entire handle to been empty. But! The cool thing is you can have one color in your cartridge and dip the nib in another color, and while you draw the color starts to blend from the nib color to the cartridge color. Very cool.

[@mauricejerome3392]

good idea! thank you :D

[@nahirionnor7883]

PETER! Invest in a blunt tipped syringe! Then you can easily refill cartridges with bottled ink. Pretty much anybody that uses fountain pens does this.

[@maxwelllaurent9065]

14:35, I don't know why, its basically just a big mess of block'y lines, but i love how that looks.

[@Iantorchwood94]

You did pronounce Caran d'Ache rather well. It's a brand from Switzerland, from around Geneva, the name is from the Russian word "karandash" which means 'pen'

[@wheeze2429]

Is it a coincidence that the colors on the boxes are also assorted by their place in the rainbow? -> 7:07

[@TheNightowl001]

At about 13:45 to 14:00, that makes me think of some kind of house drawn in four dimensions!

[@JFOX720]

I need to try these pens...nice LINES!!!

[@matthewramada922]

So, for the Pilot Parallel pens, if you don't want to deal with cartridges, it's worth knowing that the handle is entirely hollow and a single piece of plastic. This means you can just fill it directly with ink, and the nib section is sufficiently watertight that it holds the ink and feeds fine. It holds enough for weeks of regular use or months of infrequent use. I have one I use as a drawing pen, filled with brown walnut ink as an accent to black ink in sketches. I've had it for years, regularly leave it untouched for months, and I've never had to clean it; the parallel plates seem much less prone to clogging than a traditional nib. As long as you don't intend to change the color, it's a remarkably durable workhorse with ridiculous capacity.

[@matthewramada922]

Also I typically draw with calligraphy fountain pens; if you want them to post I find just wrapping a couple layers of tape around the end of the handle is sufficient. (I recommend gaffing tape as it is the best tape for everything.)

[@TheKitComplete]

I love my parallel pens and I'm happy to see your take on them!

[@digitalArtform]

You have to try the insanely large fude nib on the Duke 551 Confucius. At low angles It’s like troweling the ink on with a palette knife but the line is pretty normal at higher angles. Sounds complicated, but it’s actually quite controllable. It’s about $35 without the fancy gift box.

[@liveen]

Holy shit Peter you literally have one of the best comment sections I've ever seen on KZbin.

[@theartproject]

Nespresso is a coffee machine, kind of like a Keurig. You put a prepackaged coffee cup in it to brew coffee, but the best thing is the nespresso coffee is rich and a little foamy/frothy when brewed even without milk. I don't have one but a friend of mine does. if anyone wants to give me one I accept.

[@gabrielboisvert3733]

8:45 there was a little bit of ink-consistency there.

[@il_governatore]

The caran d ache that you got here its my favorite pen

[@NuclearOpsAirsoft]

He's smacked

[@grischagalaktika1258]

13:43 why not refill them? it's not the big deal

[@ianweis3108]

My Kaweco Perkeo (The hot pink and black pen) always kind of loosely rattled between the section and the barrel even when fully tightened due to poor tolerances. But I wrapped a thin layer of plumber's tape around the threads and now the two halves screw together so perfectly snug that it feels like one solid implement. Recommended for anyone with the same issue. (Although, there are still four air-holes concealed in the finial of the barrel, so it's unsuitable for eyedropper conversion without occluding them with sealant of some kind.) Thanks for the video, Peter.

[@fakenamefakesurname5005]

I'm tidying my socks with peter's voice, this is my saturday afternoon

[@mauricejerome3392]

cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

[@doodletime9041]

Faber Castell ist a German company, so Faber is spelled like you would in German, so it isn't the "English" a

[@cosmix4460]

Every pen that he picks suits him.

[@No_Transitory]

These pens are definitely game changers! I’ve been able to modify some and get awesome results! Hats off to pilot!

[@boijimmy2626]

MY NAME'S PETER AND I HAVE A BOX

[@ohhecc6209]

Hey peter, you don't need any sort of ink cartridge/piston with the Pilot pens, some people just fill the entire handle?...back part?...shaft? Yeah. You know what I mean, have a good day!

[@MattiasWirf]

Yes, you can make it an eyedropper. Might need some silicon or a little o-ring, not sure if you need that on these pens.

[@tathagataray4613]

Can u give me just one pen peasee

[@Crocs4cats]

Peter, please can you make another cooking video? I'm hungry!😁

[@mauricejerome3392]

Yes, that would be fun!

[@bloowabbit6414]

that square nibbed pen really informed your style of drawing - usually your drawings are softer, rounder squiggles - but this one, with its fine lines and big blocks of ink is so totally different - nice to watch you having fun with it, tfs

[@sdovas]

Something VERY Victor Moscoso about that last drawering, Petey-Wheat. Sort of a post-modern Moscoso, if you were ever into ZAP Comix you know what I'm sayin'.

[@JennyLBudd]

I got some Parallels and struggled with them a bit, so thanks for encouraging me to go back to them! You're right about cartridges, but honestly the thing that annoys me the most about them is that they're usually single use and made of plastic.

[@mauricejerome3392]

indeed, the environment hates cartridges... how about making some out of wood? lol

[@mauricejerome3392]

I'm bored, a bit......atleast.....................................................

[@digimon916]

"How many times do you have to say a word before it's real?" I have no idea why but i like this lol

[@spindelyshankz671]

Snazzy as all heck! I was mildly annoyed that so many of those pens cam with blue ink! I dont know why im prejudiced against blue ink! I like black, purple, crimson and dark green and hate blue?!

[@fallingupwards7974]

Do you plan to make videos with all of these? This is some nice stuff

[@jakekelly2007]

5:44 *that's what she said*

[@benjamina6915]

Very cool, I used one for inktober and was surprised how interesting things you can do with it.

[@guillaumebarrier7486]

Hi Peter ! Could you draw some spaceships in a future vidéo?

[@albadelcastillo5575]

He starts drawing at 8:15

[@johnnyblack612]

You should cut your hair and grow your beard, within your voice that will make a really cool combination, but you can do what you want, I really love your videos bro

[@romelmadrayart]

Hi I was curious if you have ever used the parallels as a dip pen with India inks . And you experience si you had with cleaning consistent flow, kinks in the ink(ink blobs)?

[@WhstlblwrBlastingEpsteinsILK]

Kaweco colllabed with Moleskine on a pen that looks a lot like the red & black you featured.

[@mikenel9793]

Send me a box of pens

[@sir1142]

Peter who have such a nice voice.

[@archivist17]

Anyone know what Peter's accent is? I'm the wrong side of the Atlantic to deduce it.

[@hrnekbezucha]

The "Recycled nespresso" thingies is an awesome news! There was this fad, I really hope it died out, that every coffee machine manufacturer has his own single use cartridge, all of which were special snowflake. And then you're left with a ton of waste and overpriced coffee. Your analogy of pre-filled car tank applies and in this case, you can only get the refill tanks of your car brand. Who wouldn't want that! Seeing those empty capsules being reused gives me the nice warm fuzzy feeling. Even though, vast majority of them ends up in landfills..

[@vaguelyfae4514]

Just gonna categorize everything as "box", "not box", and "baggie" from now on.

[@mauricejerome3392]

lol

[@chantellclarke6869]

Your second drawing you done as you went alone I realized that it is a great representation of my head 🤔🤔

[@BlueLineofthesky]

I do not draw. I know nothing about pens. I use some cheap pens to write or do a signature. BUT I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. They are sooo damn relaxing. I also cannot believe you when you say you draw with no plan ahead, just spontaneous. Because if it is so then you are a damn genius of some sort.

[@adamwest8711]

Peter, you talk like I think. Except my mind annunciation of drawings isn’t the same but, still, you talka like I thinka. Mexico!

[@colinmartin9797]

those parallel pens can use a pilot CON20 converter, a CON40, or a CON50. Any pilot converter except for the CON70.

[@SnowblindOtter]

Peter, grab yourself some ink syringes from Amazon. They're like 10 bucks, and you can refill the cartridges with your own ink.

[@humanharddrive1]

i refill my parallel pen all the time with the cheapest water-based ink. just stick a syringe or that blue eyedropper in your cartridge when you run out, you don't even need to buy new ones. i never threw away a cartridge (i did lose one though 😺)

[@proro3757]

There is a converter that fits the Parallel pens. It’s the Con-50 converter, I believe

[@Ucceah]

those parallel pens are a lot of fun! they work well with just about any water based ink, even thick,, sticky and metallic ones you'd normally only use with a dip pen. and are really easy to clean. converters are available too. but the cartridges are easy to refill tubes, holding more ink, so why bother., PS: my out of context quote of the week: "germany,. it's a pen, and it's got a lots of sides"

[@KcSwinson]

Hey Peter just wanted to let you know I was looking through your pen review playlist, and in one of your videos(I think it was the noodle Ahab video) you talked about heat treating your pen nib. I never done that and I was wondering why all my fountain pens are having flow issues, so I looked up a video and went home and did it, and it worked like a charm now all the pens that I have just glide on the paper! so thank you!!!😂

[@DaheqUWant]

eyyy kaweco perkeo!! i love mine a lot, it's not expensive or super high quality but it's so comfortable to hold, and it looks pretty rad (yellow body, black cap). it writes so smooth, favourite fountain pen i've written with.

[@perfectfalse1]

I only recently read about using Workable Fixatif on the paper before using the calligraphy pen to avoid bleeding and smudging. I’ll try it soon but it’s worth considering!

[@jmass5083]

Crazy cuz when i was 10 i always was drawing with calligraphy pens on canvas. I made tons of drawings an saved them untill my house got burnt down when i was 20 an then i just stopped drawing. Now im 33 an have no time to draw but sometimes i feel like just trying to see if i still got it 😉. Great art thanks for sharing.

[@snoozleblob]

But peter! You can also syringe fill the cartridges. Gives you more ink capacity and you can still use whatever ink you want. Just try to get blunted ended syringes so you don't accidentally stab yourself, s'all.

[@SkeetRadar]

could you draw an abstract cityscape with that square nibbed pen? it's all I could think about while I watched you draw with it. I kept imagining the wider streaks were the windows of long abandoned skyscrapers; like dark forgotten apartments and offices were just waiting to be explored

[@LoveoftheDarkFiberArts]

As usual, everything is awesome with your video, and I might add, your hair today is fucking amazing! God, those curls are to die for!

[@greyareaRK1]

Really interesting how the pens affected style, assuming they did. I'm discovering a lot of inks disappoint inasmuch as they're not even a little bit permanent. Fun for washes though.

[@AverchenkoMiroslav]

Is it just me being picky or are faber castel and low end pelikan pens dreadfully ugly? Don't get me wrong, I only own low end pens, but I think those two brands are doing an awful job in their design department.

[@fokonoyt8061]

Sketchy stories Kim jung Gi. You were different from them . it's like drawing abstract with a kid that has vast imagination.

[@hristocheresharski7693]

carandache is rusian for pencil... nickname for a cartoonist Emanuel Poiree..... and yes you're saying it right

[@CP4884]

Watching this video made me grit my teeth. I kept getting this feeling like nails on a chalk board just from watching. It surfaced through this completely irrational thought that the edge of that pen is so thin that it had to be making an incredibly scratchy noise on the paper. I kept thinking how easily it would be to just cut through the paper with the edge of that pen, or how the pen edge was on the brink of breaking. Like i said...completely irrational. Really cool drawing you did there as always Peter, but it was incredibly uncomfortable to watch for me.

[@kennedy67951]

Peter your a very odd dude. Do you ever draw something of the real world instead of all that scribble you do? Just asking mate. Thank you for your product reviews.

[@BuiltOffLies]

You can fill ink cartridges with bottled ink. You just need a small syringe. They sell syringes for ink with flat needle tips. No points or edges. Just pump water into the cartridge to clear the old ink out, then fill it with ink from a bottle.