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Simple Things to Sketch
There are a lot of simple things around your home to sketch. What you choose will reflect on what you’re interested in. Shapes, colors, values, negative space. Subjects around us keep us practicing for other subjects we’ve yet to meet. Enjoy exploring your home for simple subjects which yield greater understanding of all those skills […]
Kuretake Ai Liner Brush—Sepia Brush Pen
I’ve reviewed the original Kuretake Ai Liner brush with black pigmented ink before on my blog. Recently I saw there is now a sepia version. Who doesn’t like sketching in sepia ink now and then? I ordered up a sepia Kuretake Ai Liner pen from JetPens. (They run around $7.50 and I typically buy enough […]
Doodling: Let Your Mind Play—Remind It of the Value of Play
I’m often doddle and draw on non-art papers—simply because I’m sitting at my desk working and all that I have immediately around me is office supplies—bond copier paper and Post-It Notes™. (You see both of those types of paper in the first image today.) I wrote earlier this month, and many other times in the […]
Brush Pen and Ink Wash Meet Hair
Hair, wavy hair. I find it fascinating. It can be on the 1910 era women I’ve been sketching lately, or on actors playing gangsters on crime shows (which this actor was). Look about for what interests you. Draw that. The pages literally fill themselves.
In Context: Sketching and Not Listening to My Watch
Click on the image to see some morning sketches and the bad information I get from my watch about my activity! Everyday is a bit better when you start your start sketching in the morning…even earlier would be even better! Wake up your eyes, your mind, your hand. Get your curiosity about shape, line, light, […]
Have You Done Your Warm Up Sketches Today?
I hear from a lot of frustrated students. “My drawings don’t work.” “I messed up the page.” And permutations of those thoughts. The best remedy for this situation is always to make more sketches and “ruin” more pages! Things to try: Start you sketching session with quick sketches on loose paper. (Don’t throw them away. […]
Sketching Throughout the Day and Eating Steak Again
The other day I wrote about “sketching anyway.” I’d meant to follow up with another post about this topic. On this day I was sketching squash and chefs. But when I pulled up the file I was reminded that those pages also documented my jaw failure. (September 2024). I wasn’t quite ready to revisit that in […]
Stippling, and Sketching Stubble with the Pentel Fine Brush Pen with Pigmented Ink
For contrast, after seeing how the Kuretake AI Ultra Fine Brush Pen (KAL) works, here is the Pentel Fine Brush with Pigmented ink (grey squeezy body) in a 9 x 11 or so inch Canson 180 Sketchbook. The pen just glides along, and thin to thick lines are easy to accomplish. Sure the Canson 180 […]
Kuretake Ai Liner Ultra Fine Brush Pen: Review
I’ve been using the Kuretake Ai Liner Ultra Fine Brush Pen for about a year now. (KAL for the remainder of this post.) I’ve commented glibly, at the end of at least one post carrying artwork made with that tool, that I haven’t made my mind up about the pen. I still haven’t made up […]
What Do You Want in Your Journal—Aspirational Grids Help You Decide
After decades of journaling, I know what I want in my journal; I know what matters to me. But like everyone else, life is sometimes too busy, complicated, and simply exhausting, to have the time to fill my journal the way I would like. I find it useful to think smaller in my goals, not […]