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
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
Quick 10-15 min studies from actual paintings.
Lamy Pen and Stillman and Birn notebook
Rocket Rosie and the Monsters from Outerspace
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
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
Lamy pen on Stillman and Birn Notebook
USK Boston meetups
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
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
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:
Only in Blue
We are a group of 150 artists and illustrators that share work and techniques
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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
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