Platinum carbon fountain pen extra fine nib
I have finally started to decompress after 3 weeks of being on leave and have picked up my sketching pen again.
This is a quick sketch of my child at her cello lesson. I only had my platinum carbon pen with me, the one purchased in Singapore for an excellent price. As it is currently filled with water-soluble ink, it was a great opportunity to practise getting looser lines in my drawing.
I tried to capture the main outlines in a continuous pen line, although I wasn’t totally rigid about this. The shape of the cello was rather difficult to get right, but never mind, it is a sketch after all. But I am very happy with the lines of her clothing and general posture.
I must work more on hands and feet. I find those incredibly difficult to capture in a convincing way. ESPECIALLY FEET.
I might devote some sketchbook pages to feet only. So I shall be looking for hand and foot volunteers.
view from my dashboard
I did this one while sitting in the car, waiting to pick up the kids from school. A perfect block of time to spend on drawing. Plenty of non-moving objects as we are all stuck in a queue anyway.
A good start on returning to urban sketching.
