Review: Pilot Parallel Pen: The Budget Calligraphy Pen
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- These are some of the more affordable affordable pens. They are colourful, durable and easy to maintain.
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You don't even try to pronounce right.
You scared the hell out of me bro but nice video I subscribed
R u sgrean?
+blue copper He "probaly" can speak a lot of languages, I can speak more than one.
+blue copper English is not my native language, lol.
True artist-can use anything to create! My dad was calligrapher and artist and drew with whatever he felt like!
Woah..
I feel goosebumps when i read this😍
👍👍👍
Your Dad? lmao!!! Cool story bro.
He already said that he doesn’t have calligraphy skills so maybe watch to the end before you judge.
The art was beautiful, drawing something with calligraphy pen is really tough and he was just reviewing the pens not teaching his calligraphy skills, so stop judging you guys
I think some of the problems you are experiencing are due to technique and not the pen. Usually, when you learn calligraphy, you also learn stroke direction. With a nib like that, it is not recommended to make any upward strokes, so you cannot just write using cursive writing technique. Each stroke has to be done one at a time and in a downward direction.
The pen is great and its made for western callegraphy you only go from up to down and from right to left you never go the opposite directions
@@cookiesw9270 right to left?
He did say that he wasnt good at calligraphy and that he was just writing normally so pls watch the whole vid before saying that, although it was somewhat helpful i suppose
@@shake4259 yes look at the strokes of a gothic writing and you will see what i mean
kjgomes MY WRITTING IS BETTETR THAN HIM
Thanks for not just reviewing them, but taking them apart entirely. Definitely helps.
To use a Pilot parallel as an "eyedropper" pen (filling the entire barrel with ink), you just put a little silicon grease on the threads, and that seals it up, so it won't leak...
I actually quite enjoyed this video. As a pen fanatic-mainly how it fits in my hand-I thought this was informative. Thank you! And you’re such an amazing artist! I couldn’t draw like that!
I learned caligraphy over 35 years ago. the number one rule... all DOWNWARD strokes (never upward). Good luck!
@Guinea Pig Adventures Not all calligraphy. Brush calligraphy can use all directions but in this video, the tip is a broad tip so it never should go upwards
Who gives a shit? Are the calligraphy police going to come and arrest you?
He was demonstrating how the pen works, not giving a lesson in calligraphy
Thanks for the tip Maria! im just getting started on Caligraphy.
That's a good advice thanx
@@rioeiokha9653 and the commenter was just giving a tip to watchers, and s/he wasnt even bitching about the video
Great review Teoh, as always :-) Someone in our sketching group in Dublin uses these. I like your drawing, the slightly random line widths look interesting and the way the pens fill in large areas quickly seems handy. Might ask Santa for some...
I am very saddened to see some horribly rude comments to this video - you are doing such a fantastic job with your channel, sending you lots of love from Ireland!
Thanks for your support :-)
I totally agree
Kind of charming to see how these anachronisms survive in the modern world. Fountain pens are such neat little pieces of engineering.
I like your video because here in the U.S., we have some schools stopping to teach cursive writing to kids.
And I think that is a sad state of affairs not to continue a beautiful art form.
I Always Appreciate Those Individual's, Who, take the time to demonstrate in detail the inner workings of a product. It provides knowledgeable insights that saves us time, money,
honestly, i have no idea who you are, but i love the truck that you drew. and your voice is really soothing and nice to hear
Is it me, or do a bunch of the comments here seem whiny and elitist? Yes, he doesn't do calligraphy. Yes, he's drawing with calligraphy pens. Get over it.
And yes, it's millimeter. I'm sure he got the message from the first 20 or so comments about it. Again, get over it.
Are you on your period?
@Steve Daniel..no actually the commenter seems more intelligent and less of an ignorant person just posting crap without actually listening to the video compared to the little bitchers posting negative, non needed comments. Hell..maybe you're on yours huh!!!!!
Wicker O's right... Crappy letterings though! 😝
Agree. Also, mm vs millimeter is a regional thing - watch a couple of Chinese pen videos (or cooking videos for ml/milliliter) and you'll notice that basically all of them say it that way. It's just a normal variation in language use, no big deal.
@@SM_zzz Pipe down virgin
Your writing and drawing with those pens are very expressive and have lots of character. 😃 I remember a while back you and a friend of yours were grinding the nibs of these pens. Excellent review. Thanks Teoh. 👍
Yeah, that was a few years ago I think 😂🤣
Looks like fun pens for getting my handwriting back in shape. I'm 54. We had to learn cursive & had no computer's or cell phones in school. I didn't learn email until 1998 😂 My handwriting has suffered since smartphones 📱 😢 I'm loving my new fountain pens so I use them. My handwriting & drawing skills are returning. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise & inspiring us to do art 🎨 the og way. Procreate is cool but I can but so much fun art supplies for the price of an Ipad & the software 😳😬😊
Thanks for the review, since I have these pens too. And I actually came here to say I LOVE YOUR DRAWING!! omg, that truck was awesome.
This is the first time I've seen such calligraphy pens. Thank you for an illustrative example of working with this tool and thanks for the links!
Nice video and demo Teoh, thank you. A couple of things I don't think anyone has raised: you can use gouache in these provided it's a good quality finely-ground type (like Schmincke Calligraphy), mixed quite thin and you're diligent about cleaning as soon as you've finished. Also, you can file notches in the nib and make a scroll pen. They're like less versatile and harder to clean versions of the good old Automatic Pens - much more convenient to carry around though, and no dipping if that bothers you. For a wide calligraphy pen I actually prefer making one from a reed, but that's largely because I have a limitless supply of them for free to hand. :-)
GenWivern2 - Ooo! I'd love to see a video of you making a reed "pen"!
That would take some doing! Tell you what though - there are excellent instructions in Edward Johnston's "Writing & Illuminating, and Lettering", a 101 year old treasure trove of information which happens to be available for free download at archive dot org. Paste that into a search and you'll find it easily. Reed pens are not difficult to make, and it's good practice for quills - which are. :-)
@@GenWivern2 Thank you for the information. I am reading the book now.
Thank you so much! I recently learned about these pens, and as I usually do with new tools, I look to your channel first to find reliable information. This is the first new calligraphic fountain pen I've seen in years, and I'm looking forward to using it.
Damn Teoh this one got a lot of views... I don't think they understand that your reviews are from an artists perspective, not from someone specifically buying the pens for calligraphy purposes.
nice demonstration Teoh, I have a slight shake in my hands/wrist making it difficult for me to make smooth lines or such as. Thumbs up and keep the good work, I like these reviews. Great work Mr. Chie, I look forward to further reviews from you.
Woah. These pens are so crazy-looking, even just from the outside with the cap on. BUT. They do seem super convenient, especially if you want to be able to easily get different types of strokes.
Well...I was going to say lots of things, most likely, already said to the Nth degree, but this is the most important: "Thanks so much for making this video; it helps a lot, concerning the different sizes of Pilot Parallel Pens I am looking forward to buying." (Yes, I have a writing (printing is more like it) background in Calligraphy.) ☺
I eyedroppered mine.... bead of silicone grease on the threads. Works great!
geckonia lies.... You only say that because you heard him say it. Proof?
Tan Tan I’m confirming his suspicion that it works as an eyedropper. I have done it to mine successfully in the past. Many artists have. 👍🏼
geckonia
Can I use vaseline?
dan I don’t think so... the petroleum isn’t ideal. www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/276547-silicone-grease-alternative/
Unless you have really warm hands, then it burps and blots like crazy.
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Good video, i never know about a pilot pen for calligraphy... Thanks for knowledge
He starts writing @ 6:06 thank me later ❤️✨🍀
could be detention letter
Thanks,
Thnx
Thanks
Thanks 😁
I've been using these four pens for four years and put a different color ink in each of them.
When I put the feathers of two pens in contact, 5 or 10 seconds (nose nose) I get a very pretty coloured degradation and an original calligraphy. Thank youTeoh for this video !
Thanks for review. I have used pilot 0.5 and 0.7 pens but I never knew pilot parallel pens existed. Thanks your videos always help us a lot.
I have used a few of these, I like the yellow lid the best. They take a little getting used to (as with any pen), but once you get the hang of it you can lay down some beautiful strokes. Heavy on the ink, which is okay in my book :D
The major part of the beginning of the video felt like an ASMR video lol. Felt satisfying to watch :)
What a virgin
@@rioeiokha9653 Mind your own business and stop using virginity to shame someone
It starts at 6:02
Edit 9/2020: I didn't even notice that this has this much comments. Lol
Neophil thanks
Neophil thank you tired of this guy talking😂
The way he said calligraphy pisses me off its pronounced cal-li-graff-ee not calli-graffee
Thank you!
Thanks🤗
I like your accent too, you speak very good English imo and I like the way you pronounce the word "pressure". Your vocab and use of words is much better than many ppl who only speak English, in Australia at least.
Thanks 😁
damn yall really hating on him for no reason, not his fault
Nice commont lovley bro
Thought the same thing. People full of hate with people they dont know. Gawd
not his fault he is stupid and can't even pronounce the work calligraphy properly?
EXACTLY!
Well probably because most wanted him to show himself writing using those pens which is taking him a lot of time though
I use the 2.4 mm for writting purposes, makes the calligraphy process a lot easier, mainly because the nib does not "open" or gets cracked and the ink lasts for as long as you want, so you don't run out of ink in the middle of a stroke.
You need to hold your pen at a 45 degree angle
to create the beautiful Calligraphy lettering.
Technique makes a big difference.
Pronounced Cal-lig-ra-phy.
Cute little set of pens.
Thank You for taking the time to introduce this set of calligraphy pens. I appreciate all your videos. You've helped me a great deal. So Thank You.
Thank you for the review. these pens require a lot of technique I feel. Love your drawing😊 Nice day with your family
Thanks :-)
Nice truck mate. Well done on a detailed video. Thumbs up. 👍🏻
P.S. I’ve subscribed to your channel. Thanks and all the best.
I think the included 'converter' is not a converter but just a device for flushing the pen. I know: It *looks* like a converter, but does not have the same seal. You should get the regular converter or refill the cartridges as you show.
It even states in the instructions that it is for flushing the nib and not for ink.
9 bhajan
I dont think he even read the instructions for the pens
i really like your explanations. I learned so much about pens in general from this video, plus your example drawing and how you used the pens was really insightful. Thank you for your time and knowledge.
5:44, ...the writing begins 👏
These pens are a dream for anyone wanting to achieve a clean and surprisingly easy level of quality with affordable price tag. I only wish Pilot made more sizes.
Thanks. I'll be checking out your channel next
I have the green one that I just just for note taking at home and occasionally art journalling - I like the diversity of them as you can write on all of the edges and make useful lines. I just fill the cartridges with a syringe (with a normal needle, not a blunt one, since I’m not inept...) as I don’t like the Pilot converters - I have found they leak in other pens.
I love the ways you explain things and ate so simple too. Thanks for sharing!
Does it irritate anyone else when people say MM and not millimeter
Nope :D
Nightmare1sd77 Oh hell yes it does! Lol
Ya. You know what else irritates me... the entire imperial system. Metric Master Race. I live in the US funny enough.
Sometimes i called it m n ms
no not rlly
Amazing experience working with
Pilot is a different type of method.
He can use the pen however he wants. It’s HIS review at HIS level of skill or whatever.
Simply Well he cannot review a product a bad review only because he didn’t use it correctly
That was so helpful to me. I am new in writing calligraphy equipment and I gave the Pilot Parallel a go after visiting my favourite supplier downtown Athens. I fell in love with it instantly! I am a beginner but the pen includes a nice leaflet of writing exercises, lines, letters with arrows on how to write them and also a full explanation of how to hold to get the different line widths and also on how to change the cartridges and clean them. So far I found these are very helpful and your video just added more information for me to use. I really like the way you write even though you are as you say a beginner too. The only con seems to be the ink vanishes in a blink of an eye - I have been using it very much! Also my paper is a Fabriano EcoQua 85g/m2 notebook, slighter thinner than yours in weight. The pen seems to do ok though there might be some bleeding of ink on the back of the page, so watch out for that if you try thinner paper! I am content that I got the thinner pen (2.4 nib) because the lines look so much more elegant, while the bigger one takes more resources (paper, ink, etc) and wider movements which I think would make you more tired in less time, as I understand it unless you are using factory sized paper lol ... Thank you very much for the useful tips, much appreciated! 🖋💓🙏🏻👍🏻📝
I've been wondering about these since I first saw them on jetpens. Thanks for demonstrating them.
also for the eyedropper pen method, some people line the threads with silicone grease (found online or at a hardware store). That'll keep the liquid from escaping.
Hai
That truck™ drawing was indeed masterful my friend.... Your videos fill me with joy each and every time!!!!!!✅
I have them, But not used them for awhile. I think to Remember that If you touch the nib with one color and touch the nib with another color. The first Will take Some of the color of the other. 😁
Thanks for the explanation. I want to buy one and start practicing! Loved the way showed us how they work and everything 😊
Why in the hell does this have over 2 thousand dislikes. You people need to chill.
People are free to like/dislike whatever they please. That's the beautiful nature of different people. :)
Great video. I’m gonna get me some of these pens. That truck looks good.
Teoh you got even better at drawing....
That squeeze converter holds more ink than the other piston type. It's called the Con 20 if you want a spare squeeze converter
This was great Teoh! I love playing with these, though I'm not any good. Hey, congratulations on the 100K, what a great achievment! I remember watching you when you had only a few thousand subscribers, it couldn't have happened to a nicer, harder working artist!!!
This is a really great pen for beginners in calligraphy (Well, beginners should start with the 6.0mm version for more detailed letters) I'm also a calligrapher and I love this pen!
I really like the drawing of the truck with this pen. It makes it more interesting and “artistic”.
I trust an asian teaching me calligraphy
Great preview of what these pens are like, thank you for sharing so I can "try" before I buy!
I have a Pilot Metropolitan with a medium nib on it. It has a squeeze converter in it which is stained black now; but, when I first got the pen, it was clear. I've seen the Pilot Parallel pens on gouletpens.com, I believe. Brian Goulet has done a video on how to eye dropper convert a Platinum Preppy and even sells the conversion supplies on the web site. I haven't tried converting my Platinum Preppy, though. I would think the process that Brian demonstrates on the Preppy would be the same for any plastic fountain pen.
Love that truck drawing, excellent. Thanks for the demo.
ohhh I just love the look of calligraphy and yes, if I use the 45 degree angle, even I can do it! lol
If you are free styling and automatic abstract drawing using one of these im sure you can stroke "upwards" if you twist your hand around correctly thus giving the freedom to make a line in that direction to add to the composition.
Yeah, I tried to buy a blunt syringe from the pharmacy and they said "it's our policy not to sell syringes without a prescription". I needed it for my airbrush to clean it and to refill one of my printer cartridges.
You can get blunt syringes from Amazon US. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NDETMR2?tag=ttmus-20
You can buy them from Goulet pens. Well anywhere that sells ink.
Tommy Ohlrich Find a diabetic and ask them nicely for a spare - or just use Amazon....
Easy to buy syringe in india
HITLER Sarkiee you can also buy antibiotics over the counter there. We have weird health care laws here in the US. They're supposed to protect morons. But are inconvenient for the rest of us.
Very nice video. I have Pilot Fountain Pens with cut nibs - One normal and another broad. I also have Rotring Art Pen. I am using all with cartridges only. Being in India, I prefer Camel Photo Inks - about 12 colours that come in a box. If you add slight red in the dark blue ink, it really becomes dark blue. I love calligraphy pens because they do not allow our hand to shake and that gives us the control over the handwriting.
Thank you for the video.
Cool, thanks.
I wonder when they can make US$0.30 cent fountain pens for kids and students?
God bless, Proverbs 31
I’m learning Arabic, so I totally need those to write the script!😁👌👍
First of all I judged you... I thought the writing errors were because of the fact English isn't your first language and that you just haven't got the skills... when you started to draw however made me think you don't like controlling your hands, you let them along with your mind be free... that simple picture had so much rawness and structural simplicity, really took me back to my childhood books and the illustrations used in them. Keep it up.
Thank you, an excellent post! I love watching skillful craft and the appraisal of instrument. It is inspiring.
I don't think he understands the point of a calligraphy pen!!!! IT'S DRIVING ME INSANE!!!!
Darlene Mazzuco Lol, me too!
@@gadgetboy2521 no
Any tips? like what is the point of a calligraphy pen? thanks
Wait whats the point of having one
The writing that he did in this video was not calligraphy. These pens are used to make things called Gothic calligraphy, search it.
I like the way your drawing turned out it looks interesting with the line weight variation. Great quick sketch.
You've got pretty drawing skills. Love it.
Since this pen is designed for calligraphy, I had never bat an eye on it. But, dang, turns out it can give your drawings some cool line properties.. nice review, Teoh 👌
Nice pens✔✔✔
Thanks for the review! I have been thinking about getting into calligraphy recently. Btw I really liked your drawing! 😀
Thanks :-)
Idea about getting 15usd pen for calligraphy just got dismissed.
This review video was really great. Many comments here tell you about how to do calligraphy by telling you that it is always downstroke which is a great advise for any new beginner but i don't think it should have been directed to you despite you telling in the video that you are not that great in calligraphy. Don't give much attention to all these commenta and dislikes, it was a review video and was it gave me a great review.🌻🤩
5:45 here you go
Thank you so much 💕!!!! Bought the pens! I
Shall get them today
Your video made me want to buy them haha! Thank you!
Cool. Have fun using them
@@teohyc thankkkk youuuuu!!!! It really is a pleasure iwish I could show you haha! I'm so in love I might buy some other ones because I also bought different cartridges colors (12) so I might buy them again to make sure I can use all the colors at the same time
Thank you one again!!! I subscribed
Nice writing
Loved the practical review from its cartridge to nibs. It was way far better than just the writings review in my opinion!
OMG your camera I can see your fingerprints!
Because the blades are metal and the black bit is plastic the blade may become looser with time. One of mine has. It's not my oldest one so it may not be wear and tear. It's the thinnest (1.5) so it may be a fault of that size or only that individual pen.
I also find the 1.5 floods a little using Pilot ink. When you think that the 6 is so thirsty and yet that same mechanism is sending the same ink flow to the 1.5 it is no surprise so much comes out.
People as long as you get the message thats it ,AND SINCE YOU KNOW WHAT HIS TRYING TO SAY BY “MM” THATS ENOUGH AND if your irritated you can just leave ;)
Riley Franco you’re*
I agree with you. Yes, he is using the pen for a discipline other than that for which it was designed. His usual is drawing and he is showing how it might work for that. His pen, time and show. Sometimes people do Calligraphy with a graphite pencil.
I love that you kept the bloopers in at 2:54
Why am I watching this and why was it in my feed?
Excelente herramienta para Caligrafía: Pilot Parallel Pen, a mi criterio, tiene buen desempeño, en especial, para letra Old English Gótica y la Itálica Cancilleresca entre otras. Excelente video!!!!
*Disclaimer* : Individuals with OCD must refrain from watching this video
Its obsessive compulsive personality disorder what he means (OCPD)
OCD isnt a meme. Stop it
VS ocd isn’t funny. Even if its a joke it’s still offending people with ocd. Learn some respect
Wow the truck was incredible!
I like this type of pens, and you're so skillful.
Thx for your video, I like it.
Thanks :-)
You have to use an o ring and silicon grease to eye dropper. I get Opus 88 demonstrator pens and the Pilot parallel nib firs right into where the opus 88 nib screws out.. also you can modify the Pilot parallel nibs to be angled. Writes like a folded nib pen.. very fun..
The way you use these pens defies their purpose. Familiarize yourself with calligraphic techniques, otherwise you might as well use them for tent pegs.
He was just demonstrating. He said himself he doesnt know calligraphy that well.
He even said he doesnt have calligraphy skills so he is just using normal letters.
@@annefrancois20 Maybe. But you wouldn't "demonstrate" a piano by hammering on the keys with your fists, would you?
balthus, u are sooo cool, be proud of yourself
@@Gav_na_tebya Thats not a very good analogy. A better one is you can demonstrate the piano sound quality without knowing how to play it. Just like how you can demonstrate how good a pen writes without knowing how to do calligraphy. He even made that anmouncement so you really can't argue it.
Thank you for demonstrating and describing these pens!
I see "Monddy" instead of "Monday"
Thank you for your review of the Calligraphy pens. Your art (truck) was super!