This week, An Old Tractor.
Something about these old workhorses are so appealing.
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Ahriman4891 (January 19th, 2017), Marsilius (December 29th, 2015), rgperedo (November 24th, 2015)
Hello.
I’m a new member and these are my sketches, all done with Esterbrooks and Waterman inks. You can find more on my Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/michaeltsouras/ . Thank you.
Beautiful sketches. I especially admire the tonal values of the second one.
Michael (January 22nd, 2016)
My other pen is a Montblanc.
And my other blog is a tumblr!
And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD
Bogon07 (November 24th, 2015), Crazyorange (November 24th, 2015), Marsilius (November 23rd, 2015)
I love old cities, and since I read one of the "Inspector Yashim" novels by Jason Goodwin, I am fascinated by Constantinople or today's Istanbul.
This week's sketch is inspired by the view from the Bosphorus strait towards the ancient city.
The pen is one of my newest one, a copper Estie J, love that color!
The ink, what else is more appropriate... Diamine Ancient Copper.
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Bogon07 (November 24th, 2015), Crazyorange (November 24th, 2015), Marsilius (November 23rd, 2015), rgperedo (November 24th, 2015), Sailor Kenshin (November 24th, 2015), Vanax (January 12th, 2016)
One week lapse, got to keep up with the practice... a new pen helps with the motivation.
This week, we go to Scotland to see one of the beautiful castles:
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Bogon07 (December 14th, 2015), Crazyorange (December 13th, 2015), Vanax (January 12th, 2016)
is the bungbox Lycoris Red available to find in any web store?![]()
Here's something I stumbled on when preparing to do a new sketch.
I wanted to replace the ink in my manga pen with the closest match. It had some of the original black manga ink, but I diluted it with Noodler's Navaho Turquoise. It was the most difficult ink to clean out of a pen ever, but I think in the end I went ahead and mixed Navaho Turquoise with some sorta black. Maybe Perle Noire.
My other pen is a Montblanc.
And my other blog is a tumblr!
And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD
Bogon07 (December 14th, 2015), Crazyorange (December 13th, 2015), Marsilius (December 29th, 2015), penwash (December 11th, 2015), VertOlive (January 19th, 2016)
I believe bung box has slowed the production of the ink. If you're in the states, contact www.vanness1938.com to see when a shipment will be coming. I'm thinking I read somewhere, spring of 2016.
This thread is unbelievable! You guys are AMAZING sketch artists!
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
Can someone please draw me a cat![]()
I have some older cat sketches...can't get to them at the moment, but I'm sure there are other kitteh artists here!
Wait....not sure whether this grouping is fountain pen or crow quill:
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Last edited by Sailor Kenshin; December 20th, 2015 at 12:21 PM.
My other pen is a Montblanc.
And my other blog is a tumblr!
And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD
Crazyorange (December 20th, 2015), Marsilius (December 29th, 2015), penwash (December 21st, 2015), Pterodactylus (April 8th, 2016), rgperedo (March 1st, 2016), VertOlive (January 19th, 2016)
Playing 'round in one of the sketchbooks...
Andy
Marsilius (December 29th, 2015), penwash (December 29th, 2015), Sailor Kenshin (December 29th, 2015), Vanax (January 12th, 2016), VertOlive (January 19th, 2016)
Where's the claxon horn?![]()
Fortibus es in ero
inkstains (January 13th, 2016)
Ok, first quick scrappy scribbly sketch of the year, but proof that I am finally starting to draw again. Strathmore smooth bristol paper, Sailor Jentle Doyou in a Conid Bulkfiller with Ahab nib, a touch of Quink in a MB146. An experiment in smudging ink, and the beginnings of an idea of mangy bird wings that look like winter branches with no leaves. One of my default subjects is slightly grumpy trees, probably thinking, "You killed a tree for THIS?". Anyway, its a start!
Two_Trees.jpg
Fortibus es in ero
Crazyorange (January 11th, 2016), Hamtaro84 (February 17th, 2016), Pterodactylus (April 8th, 2016)
I actually like it.
How do you do the smudging? Cotton balls?
Thanks! Just paper towels. Sometimes a messy hand. Cottons balls might be a good idea.
I've had good luck with saturated colored inks like PR chocolate. Inks that take a while to dry are nice enough to wait for you to put down the pen and pick up the cloth before they dry. And the more satuarted ones tend to spread more like a color than a smear. Fun to play with that.
Fortibus es in ero
Here's a hasty hand:
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Needle-fine Tachikawa Manga Pen, 'vintage,' fi' dolla...a mix of Noodler's 'GI Navajo' and JH Perle Noir, came out a nice deep teal.
My other pen is a Montblanc.
And my other blog is a tumblr!
And my latest ebook, for spooky wintery reading:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CM2NGSSD
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