I’m still working my way through the Inkvent inks (9 pens left to write dry), and I’m trying to sketch more even on busy weeks. So I dusted off an old Traveler’s Notebook that I set up years ago and didn’t fill, and I started playing with fountain pens.
This is a 5 minute sketch of Belle, the Australian sheepdog. It was done with a Sailor Fude 40 degree fountain pen and Graf Von Faber-Castell carbon black ink on a paper bag that held my sandwich.
Trying out a new sketching setup so I decided to sketch Belle. She’s a young Australian Shepherd that belongs to a colleague and regularly comes to the office.
As I was running a few days ago I saw some workers packing up the plastics in the sea exhibit and I stopped to take a picture of them as they tried to figure out how to fit all the statues into their truck. I sketched this purposely very loosely and very quickly, to see if I could capture a complex scene without getting overly absorbed in the detail. It’s a good exercise to try out, and one that I intend to do more of in the future.
TWSBI ECO fine with J. Herbin Emarald of Chivor on an A4 Midori MD Cotton notebook.
I’m off to participate in my first ever LARP this weekend, and I’m going to try and capture as much of it as I can in sketches and post it here.
My lines and painting came out more wobbly than usual due to a combination of neuropathy and the train ride.
Update: the weekend was excellent but phenomenally busy, and I got only about 4-5 hours of sleep per day. Still recovering, but working on a backlog sketch journal of the trip in the meanwhile.