Hello all! I am new here.
I started dabbling in sketching with line and watercolor about a year ago which got me interested in fountain pens and journaling.
Now I am trying to sketch with just fountain pen, ink and ink wash. This is what I did today.
Pilot Falcon Soft Fine and Iroshizuku Ajisai
(I hope I did this right, it is my first post.)
catbert (July 14th, 2022), Chrissy (August 8th, 2022), christof (July 14th, 2022), INeedAFinancialAdvisor (August 15th, 2022), junglejim (August 15th, 2022), Kaputnik (July 14th, 2022), Lloyd (July 14th, 2022), mizgeorge (August 8th, 2022), Pterodactylus (July 15th, 2022), sospiro (July 14th, 2022), TSherbs (July 14th, 2022), usk15 (July 14th, 2022), Yazeh (July 14th, 2022)
welcome. great sketch!
pretend_avian (July 14th, 2022)
nice!
pretend_avian (July 14th, 2022)
Exellent, pretend-avian! It's always good to see someone new around here.
What paper did you use for this, what weight?
"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
G.K. Chesterton
Thank you christof, TSherbs and Kaputnik for the encouragement and welcome.
Kaputnik - this is a 150 gsm drawing book from Paper Republic. It is pretty good for watercolor and ink, but some inks feather on it, and if you put the ink on very thick or get it wet for a wash it will bleed through, so I only use one side of the paper.
Kaputnik (July 14th, 2022)
@pretend-avian, I wish my dabbling looked anything liked yours. Looking forward to seeing your sketches.
Feel free to join us, on the Inktober thread.
Thanks, @Yazeh, that looks like a great idea! I will give it a try.
Yazeh (July 14th, 2022)
Last week we spent some days in Saalbach Hinterglemm.
We took the cable car to the top of the 12er Kogel and sketched the mountains.
12er Kogel Hinterglemm by Ptero Pterodactylus on DeviantArt
(Pelikan P458 Airpen - EF ..... Platinum Carbon Black, Winsor&Newton Professional)
And the version of my son.
12er Kogel Hinterglemm (Junior) by Ptero Pterodactylus on DeviantArt
(Pelikan P458 Airpen - F ..... Platinum Carbon Black, Winsor&Newton Professional)
My son sketched the view from the balcony of our hotel room in Hinterglemm.
View from the Hotel in Hinterglemm (Junior) by Ptero Pterodactylus on DeviantArt
(Pelikan P458 Airpen - F ..... Platinum Carbon Black, Winsor&Newton Professional)
Recently I noticed the work of Ian Fenelly and looked at some of his Video demos.
I'm quite impressed from his technique, so I tried a piece also in that style.
Here it is, a Mercedes Benz W165 from 1939, it was designed especially for the Grand Prix in Tripoli to meet the regulations of that particular race (Vuiturette Class).
The rules of this race were changed from the italian organizers to break the German dominance of Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union.
It was derived from the bigger "regular" Mercedes W154 Grand Prix car of 1938-39 and developed in only 8 month.
You can say the W165 was the last of the the pre war Mercedes-Benz Silberpfeil racing cars.
It was used in only 1 race, the Grand Prix of Tripoli on 7. May 1939.
The plan of the italian organizers did not worked out, the W165 cars dominated the race.
Hermann Lang won the race in front of Rudolf Caracciola, both on Mercedes-Benz W165.
The second world war ended the carreer of the W165 after only one race.
Mercedes-Benz W165 by Ptero Pterodactylus on DeviantArt
(Pelikan P458 Airpen - EF ..... Platinum Carbon Black, Schmincke Horadam, Royal Talens Ecoline Brush)
Really good Kaputnik
Sketch from my son when we visited the Ferleiten Wildpark.
View from Ferleiten Wildpark (Junior) by Ptero Pterodactylus on DeviantArt
(Pelikan P458 Airpen - F ..... Platinum Carbon Black, Winsor&Newton Professional)
I sketched a deer also at the Ferleiten Wildpark.
Deer at Ferleiten Wildpark by Ptero Pterodactylus on DeviantArt
(Pelikan P458 Airpen - EF ..... Platinum Carbon Black, Winsor&Newton Professional)
This evening chalk sketch.
Red Heels by Ptero Pterodactylus on DeviantArt
(Koh-I-Noor Gioconda White Coal 4, Stabilo Carbothello)
My latest fountain pen drawing.
Full Figure Ink Drawing by Ptero Pterodactylus on DeviantArt
(Pelikan P458 Airpen - EF ..... Platinum Carbon Black)
This time an ink portrait done with a fountain pen.
Ink Lady Portrait by Ptero Pterodactylus on DeviantArt
(Pelikan P458 Airpen - EF ..... Platinum Carbon Black)
My latest watercolor piece.
Rooster by Ptero Pterodactylus on DeviantArt
(Pelikan P458 Airpen - EF ..... Platinum Carbon Black, Schmincke Horadam)
That's one handsome rooster @ptero.
I find lips difficult to draw. A bit off and an innocent smile turns into a disdainful smear
Pterodactylus (August 19th, 2022)
Thanks
You are right lips and facial features in general are also for me difficult.
Often when I draw faces (where I intend a natural look) they look kind of off, or strange.
Using a raster for a portrait helps, but this does not help on a "normal" figure drawing where you can see the face.
When drawing figures sometimes I try to avoid faces, prefer to draw figures where you canīt see the face....... which will not help to improve.
Here is a my new one.
Has also a face but not a human one ....
Raven by Ptero Pterodactylus on DeviantArt
(Pelikan P458 Airpen - EF ..... Platinum Carbon Black, Schmincke Horadam)
Hi Ptero. Thanks for sharing your creative journey.
Loved that Raven
I just wanted to show one of my quick sketches. It looks better from afar than closeup.
It was done with an EF nib on ( Polar Brown) on composition notebook.
Size 8 cm by 6.
Still a long way to go but getting there....
20220826_093402.jpg
Another quick sketch, with a sailor fude nib... Nose/mouth still needs work/ mouth and I won't say anything about the shading....
Scan.jpeg
junglejim (August 27th, 2022), Pterodactylus (August 27th, 2022), usk15 (August 27th, 2022)
Bookmarks