Oh wow here.

The Fifth Erma...

Understandably Cranky.

Looking a bit like Jedi Erma.

She gets a lot scruffier as she gets older. XD Never let your output be determined by a single tool, though.

It had heretofore been so dependable and delivered just what I wanted that I got so used to it. Grump.

That's why, when I find a pen I like, I buy a box of them. But then I tend to use steel nibs, watercolor brushes, and firber tipped pens. It is also why I have two computers on my desk, instead of one, and a laptop in reserve. Always prepared.

At $180. a pop, I wasn't going to stock up on them. I've got some cheaper pens, but they don't have as fine of nibs.

Yeowch!.
Now you see why I used those Japanese Chrome plated, steel nibs. they were $12 for a packet of 4. Even the Rapidographs were only $50.00 at the time.

Actually, that's a thought. Have you considered running a load of cleaning fluid through the resevoir, and the tip, to see if that will restore the flow? I used to run Windex through my rapidographs with decent results.

Why does everyone think I wouldn't try some variation of pen cleaning 101? Like I haven't been using various pens for over forty years?

It is the usual IT support type question "Can you turn it off, and on, please?" The next questions would involve the ink and if it's the standard brand type approved for the pen, ect. ect. Following that would be seeing if there are discussions found by a Google search, if there is a notable weather sensitivity on the pen, and if there are remedies for it. That would be how it goes, usually.

But then having gone mostly digital, concerns about anything other than pencils. Copic Markers and the occasional pen or brush are sort of academic for me these days.

Sketchiness is okay, the 'feel' here is excellent.

Well, take into account she's an anthropomorphic and she ages in a very different way how a human woman does.

The ages of a wo-cat?

She's such a cutie <3

How could anyone not like her?

Sketchy though the work may be due to a dodgy pen, I can still see the hints of radiation injuries showing through in her old age.

to many hard jumps???????????

More a matter of just getting old. Her form only has a common life span of sixty-odd years.

The fifth Erma "Those young kits and their music..."

I like it...

V.

I also like the "seen too much bullshit" Erma, with the Jim Halpert camera stare

An excellent look at Erma over the decades =0)