Showing posts with label pen and ink. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pen and ink. Show all posts
Saturday, September 29, 2018
On My Easel - pen and ink portrait/figurative Work In Progress
Ink is one of the best drawing improvers - and one of the most frightening. No way to make it right if you mess up - or at least I haven't found it yet! I look at this and think 'should I create more texture'? Or just leave it at this stage? Will think this over and am definitely open to suggestions. For this one I used Micron and Sharpie pens on Canson drawing paper. It's about 9 x 10". Thanks for stopping by!
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Cowboy Fiddler - original pen and ink figurative sketch
He's not the only fiddler here. I'm another one, but I was doing my fiddling with a dip pen and ink, which I haven't done in years. I was kind of hesitant, since it's been a long time, but I remembered how much I used to like using this technique. I drew with a 512EF bowl dip nib and then applied water. I love the way these kinds of nibs make contact with the paper. They don't run smoothly like ballpoints and they sort of 'catch' every now and then, which I think gives an interesting look. Now I'm not saying the lines in this sketch are interesting, since I pretty much covered them up with water, but the nibs can and do provide these textures most of the time. This sketch is on 12 x 9" mixed media paper. Thanks for looking!
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