[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[oshfdk]

I don't think these split strokes normally happen when properly using a good quill with normal quality ink.

It has nothing to do with the quality of the quill or the ink.  It happens with any quill or ink when the pen is about to run out of ink.  Again, a careful scribe will dip the quill into the inkwell before it gets to that state.

This effect can happen when writing with an almost empty quill, but I'm not sure this would happen then all over the page. This effect certainly can also happen if the ink is not of the right viscosity or if there is something wrong with the tip of the quill. I've made a few quills myself from raw feathers, it's not hard to make a botched quill that will produce these split strokes most of the time. Just cut it wrong and that's it.

However, this is not really the question, it not important here what process led to these visibly prominent split strokes on f44r. The question is why these unusually visible frequent split strokes persist across all shades of ink, both very dark and quite light. Are the double strokes in the image below the work of one actor in a single session or several different actors spread in time?