Subtle Fun

Back to the Staedler pens for this one.

This prompt had me going in circles since last night. Pretty much two of anything good is better than one of a good thing. I started settling in on feet, legs, shoes, eyes, etc., but I didn’t have the mojo to try drawing two of any of those. It wasn’t until I was eating dinner that I realized I knew what I wanted to draw. Ding!

This was the first drawing I did from a live object, instead of imagination or working from looking at another image. I was surprised at how challenging this was. I went back to the dip pens and brush and figured that there wouldn’t be much to the drawing. But this was hard!

I broke out the new Staedler pens this evening. It was nice to have a variety of line thicknesses to work with. Big thumbs up.

This was the hardest day to draw, as I didn’t get a chance to start until after midnight. Got it done, though! Woot!

Day 3 with the dip pens, India ink, and brushes. The water on this one was harder than I imagined it would be. I started too dark with the ripples, and never recovered.

Not having any experience with drawing hands, I figured this would be tough. I also wanted to stick with trying out the dip pens and brushes, which made it doubly tough. The result shows my lack of skill at this point, but it was a fun drawing to try (hands in snow). Even though the drawing didn’t come out very well, I feel like I got a bit better at controlling the dip pen. Progress.