The Boston Greenway

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drawing, ink, lamy, sketch, Sketches, SketchingWorkshopGroup, StillmanAndBirn, urbansketcher, Zeta Series

Lunchtime at downtown greenway Boston. The sun was so bright! Yes.. Bright Sunlight is a rarity here and warm weather too. We have a long winter!
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Quick inks on figure drawing

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beta series, drawing, ink, lamy, portraits, sketch, Sketches, SketchingWorkshopGroup, StillmanAndBirn, W&N, watercolor

Stillman and Birn paper Beta Series /Lamy pen SF nib
quick 10 min studies

They always tell me  about my squiggly lines, I use them in all quick sketches regardless the subject. Ink has always been my favorite medium and when I discovered the combination of Stillman and Birn Paper, Lamy pens and Noodler’s ink I felt that from then on I could just draw anything and forget about struggling with materials to get the best flow, permanence and all the nuisance of adapting this to that and try that again. I can just concentrate on enjoying myself now 🙂
Stillman and Birn paper Beta Series /Lamy pen SF nib
quick 10 min study

This one below was completed with W&N cotman mini traveler watercolor kit

Quickies from Masterpieces

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beta series, drawing, ink, lamy, PentelBrush, portraits, sketch, Sketches, SketchingWorkshopGroup, StillmanAndBirn

Quick 10-15 min studies from actual paintings.

Lamy Pen and Stillman and Birn notebook

Rocket Rosie and the Monsters from Outerspace

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beta series, drawing, graphicNovel, ink, lamy, Rocket Rosie, S&BBetaSeries, SketchingWorkshopGroup, StillmanAndBirn, W&N, watercolor

This is a first draft character design for Rene Fijten’s Rocket Rosie graphic comic saga

I used a Lamy pen and Stillman and Birn Beta series notebook

Trial and Error

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beta series, drawing, ink, koi watercolors, lamy, SketchingWorkshopGroup, StillmanAndBirn, twigs, urbansketcher, W&N

It all started when I messed up this watercolor

I made a sketch of the drawing, which became more simplified

I used my carved willow sticks to apply ink in simplified strokes to get the essence of the sketch

Then I applied colors

At the end the character was different so I don’t know which I like best but I think the black and white 🙂

City Hall Plaza

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beta series, drawing, ink, lamy, sketch, Sketches, SketchingWorkshopGroup, StillmanAndBirn, watercolor

Lamy pen on Stillman and Birn Notebook

USK Boston meetups

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beta series, drawing, ink, koi watercolors, lamy, sketch, Sketches, SketchingWorkshopGroup, StillmanAndBirn, urbansketcher, watercolor

Sketching The north end and the Back Bay with USK Boston

Lamy pen Koi watercolors and Stillman and Birn sketchbook Beta series

 

Detailed urban sketches

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beta series, ink, koi watercolors, lamy, S&BBetaSeries, sketch, Sketches, SketchingWorkshopGroup, StillmanAndBirn, urbansketcher, watercolor

I am trying to spend more time on details. here is the first set of images. I took about 40 min on each. The notebook is small. next time I’ll use a bigger norebook for even more detail. I used a Lamy pen and Stillman and Birn sketchbooks.

No Right Turn – A Collaborate Graphic Novel

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comicNoir, graphicNovel, NoRightTurn, SketchingWorkshopGroup

Our Sketching Workshop group is developing a graphic novel that started by accident. Rene Fijten posted an image in the group and another member of the group followed creating a sequence. This continued developing making a story. This is how we are so far and the story goes as this:

by Rene Fijten

by Rene Fijten

by Cat Andrew

By Rene Fijten

by Jim Scheel

by Laura Sfiat

by Holger Wendt

by Amanda Lee Condict

by Rene Fijten

by Jorge Royan

by Mark Fraley

by Sofiya Voznaya

by Jim Scheel

by Marco Guzetti

by Cat Andrew

by Wes Douglas

by Wes Douglas

by Rene Fijten

by Nicholas Choong

by Laura Sfiat

by Béliza Mendes

by Rene Fijten

by Nicholas Choong and coloured by Jonas Ericson

Only in Blue

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blue, drawing, games, ink, sketch, Sketches, SketchingWorkshopGroup, twigs, watercolor

We are a group of 150 artists and illustrators that share work and techniques

https://www.facebook.com/SketchingWorkshop

we often “play” challenges like this in which we limit the materials and try to come up with something creative, then play a guessing game to see who drew what.

We call it Sherlock. In this case, we limited the challenge to just a few list of materials and one color