Inking: Black on Black
Working with pen and ink, you often run into the issue of what to do when you have a black element on top of another black element, such as when there is a black figure ...
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Inking Tool: the Nail
It just struck me the other day that there is an essential tool that I use when drawing in pen-and-ink that I have never read any writer discuss. Now, I don’t ink with a nail ...
inking issues: at the border
When using a nib, it is very common to release pressure as you near a border, whether that be a panel border (as shown below) or the contour of a shape. You do this because ...
Inking Advice
Recently, I’ve been going through the old Famous Artists Course handbooks. If you don’t know, this was an art course first devised in 1948 and it involved teachings by artists like Norman Rockwell, Austin Briggs, ...
colored pencil and ink experiments
In my notebook, I’ve been playing around with colored pencil and ink. I tried sepia ink, but I like good old-fashioned black the best. The trick is to be sparing so it doesn’t overpower the ...
Thoughts on Line: Edmund Sullivan’s Line: An Art Study
I didn’t read Edmund J. Sullivan’s Line: An Art Study all at once, but piece by piece over a few months. Besides just life getting in the way, I took this book slowly because it isn’t ...
How to Hold a Dip Pen
(Not like this.) When I was learning to play trumpet as a kid, I was told to never let my cheeks puff out when I blew. But take a look at almost any picture of ...