A quick sketch still life done with a Sailor Fude De Mannen. Nice pen for sketching only...
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A quick sketch still life done with a Sailor Fude De Mannen. Nice pen for sketching only...
sketch.jpg
Another sketch and quote:
I was brave enough to this directly with ink.
Getting there, piano, piano
Leonardt Principal EF
I used to IG inks.
The brown in Gutenberg Urkundentinten...
The other is dip pen blue black IG
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Well done Yazeh.
I think it would be even better if you wouldn't use lined paper
Something in between to get a new profile badge "How to draw a witch" on Deviant Art.
Pin-up Witch by Ptero Pterodactylus on DeviantArt
(Pelikan P458 Airpen - EF ..... Platinum Carbon Black, Staedtler Lumograph Black 4B, Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer)
@ptero, most of my notebooks are lined. I doodle a lot. If something turns out alright, I post it
Lloyd (September 14th, 2022), Pterodactylus (September 14th, 2022)
I've been making some small (5x7) watercolor portraits on rough 140 lb. paper, which is an interesting surface, definitely different from the cold press paper I usually use. I have some hot press paper, too, but haven't tried that yet.
Nothing that I paint or draw is remotely like what I want to do when I sit down, but sometimes it strikes me as interesting when I look at it the next day.
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
@Kaputnik, I especially like the 2nd one. So expressive...
My latest fountain pen drawing using MI#45
Stockings in Ink by Ptero Pterodactylus on DeviantArt
(Pelikan 400 NN - F ..... Mystery Ink #45 provided by junglejim on FPGeeks, Pelikan P458 Airpen - EF ..... Platinum Carbon Black, Koh-I-Noor Hardtmuth Gioconda white Coal)
junglejim (September 26th, 2022)
Figure drawing in ink by Ptero Pterodactylus on DeviantArt
(Montblanc 144 - BB ..... Mystery Ink #46 provided by junglejim on FPGeeks, Koh-I-Noor Hardtmuth Giaconda White Coal)
Well, it's not like this thread is a hotbed of activity. I thought I would put some of my latest activity here, which I've also posted elsewhere.
I like drawing birds. Audubon I'm not, but I like drawing birds. Or painting. This is a watercolor.
And I'm trying to learn portrait drawing and painting. A long way to go yet, of course. This was just a sketch, from a photo that was probably taken around 1900.
One face that I've failed to capture several times is that of Lizzie Borden, but sometimes the failures are interesting. Did she or didn't she? It's generally assumed that she did, but she was acquitted.
Watercolor portraits are even harder. Still working on it. But again, sometimes the result is interesting even if I know it's not what I intended.
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
I expect that some prompt in the Inktober 52 thread will inspire me, but until then...
This creature showed up outside my rear window, positively begging to be photographed.
He didn't ask to have his (or her) portrait painted as well, but it's part of the service for sufficiently interesting subjects.
Immediately afterward, he jumped toward me. I'll have to paint this too, some time.
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
catbert (December 31st, 2022), christof (December 31st, 2022), Deb (December 31st, 2022), forester (January 6th, 2023), INeedAFinancialAdvisor (December 31st, 2022), junglejim (January 6th, 2023), Kaputnik (December 31st, 2022), Lloyd (January 1st, 2023), mizgeorge (December 31st, 2022), Yazeh (December 31st, 2022)
This was my first effort for 2023. Five by seven inch watercolor paper, watercolor pencils and some details with a Copic Multiliner. It's a version of the ink drawing I did for "scurry", back in Inktober.
If I'd drawn it a bit smaller, I'd have had room for the entire mouse's tail.
waranoid
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
Yazeh (January 6th, 2023)
Well done!
usk15 (January 12th, 2023)
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