Tag: Zebra (pen manufacturer)
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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…
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The Ethical Artist: being green & creative
Fairly recently I decided to stop using single-use plastic to create my artworks to be more green. This sounds quite easy, but in reality it’s quite hard since so much stuff arrives in plastic, and some things don’t exist in refillable form, so I have to hack things or work around them. Case in point…
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Online Life Drawing #4
The online life drawing and portrait sessions continue apace, although I have learned I work best at my own pace and at a later time than with everyone else – most of the time I actually take far less time than the 10-30 minutes usually assigned, sometimes I take more for a pose or image…
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River Man
I am breaking one of my rules which is to post 5PM Challenge works first over at my Instagram, and another that I also that I post them as a series in the Highlights posts but these drawings feel like they should be together, in fact they are from the same sketchbook. They all come…
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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…
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Life Drawing #72 – Asim
Cane but fully abled: this session was all about ink and mostly dip pens and the model brought a cane to pose with. It was a weird sort of coincidence as I’d been using a walking cane the day before because I’d hurt my back (in fact I wasn’t sure if I’d make the session).…
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