Tag: Koh

  • Darling Buds of May – Flower Studies

    Darling Buds of May – Flower Studies

    Over the last few years I’ve been forcing myself to do more flower studies. Like buildings, flowers are not something I come to naturally, but they appear in the foreground of my landscapes so I needed to be better at depicting them. (Unlike people who also rarely appear in my plein air work, a landscape…

  • The Best Black Fountain Pen Carbon Inks*

    The Best Black Fountain Pen Carbon Inks*

    *of the ones I have and can afford! Any comments saying ‘oh you didn’t try this ink’ and such pedantry will require an automatic forfeit of sending me that bottle of ink, for free. 😛 Not done a equipment review for quite a while – over the last few years I’ve been trying out carbon…

  • Mynktober Inktober 1-8

    Mynktober Inktober 1-8

    As I mentioned in the last Inktober post, I created my own version of Inktober called MynkTober independent of Inktober inspired by Stuart Semple’s Pinktober protest. I just used a random word generator to create prompts, and only intervened when a word seemed to specific or not inspiring and then just clicked for another word.…

  • Dark Inside

    Dark Inside

    I could tell you about my life And keep you amused I’m sure About all the times I’ve cried And how I don’t want to be sad anymore And how I wish I was in love #Mood with these literal 3AM pieces, created during the darkest period of the lockdown from the gloaming of the…

  • Inktober 52 #1-12

    Inktober 52 #1-12

    I have been taking part since January 1st in Inktober52, a weekly version of the original Inktober which takes place every day in October. You might have seen some of these images here already – for a while I doubled up my 5PM Challenge with Inktober52, but now they are separate things. Unlike my first…

  • Online Portraits #2

    Online Portraits #2

    A better session of the online portraits, getting more used to working from photos now, it’s been quite an adjustment. Some nice ranges of young and old here – especially loved drawing the ‘Old Woman’ and the ‘Young Woman…’ above. I got quite manga/cartoon with my Zebra G nib dip pen and Rorher & Klingner…