This is the Diamine Inkvent 2023 day 15 door:

Day 15’s ink is Diamine Walnut. It’s a standard ink.

Compared to previous Inkvents, there’s been a dearth of brown inks in this year’s calendar. Diamine Walnut is the first brown ink of the calendar, and it’s a nice solid walnut colour with a good amount of shading.

This year’s Inkvent started out strong, with a large collection of interesting and vibrant inks, so Diamine Walnut kind of falls flat amongst this bunch. There’s nothing really to set it apart from Diamine’s solid standard lineup of brown inks, but I guess that amongst the pinks, purples and oranges there needs to be room for an ink like this.

As with most brown inks, Diamine Walnut is a good ink for sketching. It was fun sketching Orson with this ink, and seeing just how widely varied its shading is.

This is Orson. He tends to lean back a little, and I think that just adds to his charm:

I don’t see myself investing in a full bottle of Diamine Walnut, as I have more than enough brown inks in my collection already. I understand the place of inks of this kind in the Inkvent calendar, yet somehow they still give off a feeling of being a “filler” ink, a “what more can we add to make it to 25” sort of choice. Do you agree?