Your Leastest Highness,
@Erica McPhee - I really appreciate your encouragement! I'm going to reach out to Diamine - the worst they could do is not be at all interested (well... I suppose they could order me to cease & desist, if they really hated the drawings
. Maybe after the semester is over and I've got a moment to figure it out, and see what's out there on social media. I will admit that I live an extremely off-line life. I am a medieval Latin paleographer -- when I say, "information technology," I mean, I kill an animal and write on it, using the feather off another animal, sometimes with ink I've brewed up from tree parts. I prefer to communicate via carrier pigeon and semaphore flag.
I'm glad you're finding the descriptions of the inks useful too. I'll be very interested to see what your favorites are at the end of it all!
As for today's ink.... I guess I've started editorializing more than I had intended to initially, so here's the review of the first one I'm kind of tepid about. Even though some of the others aren't really my aesthetic, I nonetheless feel like they are excellent examples of their colors and qualities. This one is...average.
"Peach Punch" - which, I don't think is very "peach" colored though, except for in the mid-level dilution. A standard medium orange ink - with a decent tonal range and even shading without any chromatography surprises. It's happy and "punchy" though, and has a clean white-gold reaction to bleach.
Flourish Friends - I'm rather inclined to like orange ink, and I reach for the 2019 Inkvent "Fire Embers" again and again for illustration (I used it for the Inktober 2021 "Connect" drawing), but this "Peach Punch" ink isn't making my heart sing. It's not a very well-behaved ink, even on superb Col-O-Ring paper. And, if an ink isn't going to behave well on that paper, I don't know what paper it will perform well on. You can see where it's blobbed and bled, and had trouble flowing and starting. You can also see that I struggled a bit to control it in the drawing (on Stillman & Birn beta series paper). Granted, the type of writing and drawing I put inks through in these "tests" really put pressure on them to see what they can do -- sometimes you find a weak link. I'm positive that it would be fine if you just wanted a medium orange ink to write with in a fountain pen on good paper (Rhodia, Clairfontaine, Tomoegawa, Crown Mill, etc). But using it with a dip pen and for art purposes will clearly take a lot of doctoring, and it doesn't strike me as interesting enough to invest the time in.
For comparison - I've also included an image showing "Peach Punch" next to "Fire Embers" (more vibrant, greater tonal range) and the magnificent Pilot iroshizuku "fuyu-gaki" (vibrant, phenomenal chromatography bleeding out pale pinks, actual peach, salmon, and tendrils of buttercup yellow, plus a subtle gold sheen - what an ink! I used it for the orange field of my Dante project)