FPN's PEN ART GALLERY

[choen]

Wow am so glad to have found this thread!

The following scans are doodles done freehand with no pencil outlines with a Muji Alumi fountain pen, on 180gsm paper sketchbook, a4 size.

Sorry couldn't keep the book flat on the scanner.

 

 

http://www.aspectnetwork.com/public/20100923-fountainpens/ss-20100928-choen-upgradedrabbit-iridiumpoint.jpg

 

http://www.aspectnetwork.com/public/20100923-fountainpens/ss-20100928-choen-recycledrabbit-iridiumpoint.jpg

 

http://www.aspectnetwork.com/public/20100923-fountainpens/ss-20100928-choen-recycledpetsvarious-iridiumpoint.jpg

[algabatz]

Wonderful!

 

/Tony

[choen]

http://www.aspectnetwork.com/public/20100923-fountainpens/s-20100929-choen-theveteran1.jpg Edited September 29, 2010 by choen

[choen]

A quick one

 

http://www.aspectnetwork.com/public/20100923-fountainpens/s-20101006-choen-stationarywars.jpg

[Writer2b]

Loving this thread!! So much beauty, humor and inspiration. I do have one question for those coloring their drawings: As a near-beginner, I'm using Pilot Precise rollingball pens for drawing and ordinary colored pencils for coloring, but I'd like to find a medium that gives more saturated colors and are more easily blendable. What should I use? Or can I get better results from my colored pencils by using them in a different way?

 

Thanks everyone, and I hope to see more wonderful art soon. I'll add mine when I finish something worth posting. Just doodling for now.

 

Mary

Edited October 29, 2010 by Writer2b

[RedPie]

How nice is that. I love those recycled pets... Great work! :clap1:

[candidvn]

I am learning how to draw with a Fountain Pen. Hope that in the near future, mine is good enough to post here.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1240/5122363093_2304d04177_z.jpg

[watch_art]

Loving this thread!! So much beauty, humor and inspiration. I do have one question for those coloring their drawings: As a near-beginner, I'm using Pilot Precise rollingball pens for drawing and ordinary colored pencils for coloring, but I'd like to find a medium that gives more saturated colors and are more easily blendable. What should I use? Or can I get better results from my colored pencils by using them in a different way?

 

Thanks everyone, and I hope to see more wonderful art soon. I'll add mine when I finish something worth posting. Just doodling for now.

 

Mary

 

color pencils are a fine medium and there are some brands that shade better than others. for the best color pencils for your money, i'd try Prismacolor. They're not cheap, but there are other brands out there that make them look cheap. They are wonderful pencils though.

[watch_art]

here's what i've been doing lately.

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1140/5134651872_82239ef364.jpg

4cups burgundy by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1167/5134060769_72da195740.jpg

homemade gen am by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/5134659294_dd23027fcb.jpg

enough for us by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1335/5134059877_3da3035eba.jpg

78g broad nib by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5134658008_f8f3aeb7c0.jpg

dont care ndlrs beaver by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/5134657408_0c728428a4.jpg

bug mug texas live oak by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/5134058023_ebaf1c1efa.jpg

company by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/5134057277_2b1166ddbe.jpg

sleeping babies pel blbk by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/5134056801_cf20cf9fc0.jpg

potty seat by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5134655190_00b817c84d.jpg

pel e topaz by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1127/5134654594_11239a68ab.jpg

party by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1070/5134654094_98bdcac6b9.jpg

baremin by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/5134054873_8cbc6df4d2.jpg

2for1 pel blbk by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1403/5134653178_f2977c3efb.jpg

travel mug black by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1407/5134053867_949c896e21.jpg

travel mug texas live oak by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4049/5134053395_fc8d810129.jpg

saucer blue black by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5037576767_f7708f6198.jpg

cup jb by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/5064292942_8735384d8b.jpg

black glass by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4083/5063680591_17f0297819.jpg

red cup by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/5063680153_fb41087cd7.jpg

purple mug by watch_art2010, on Flickr

 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4148/5061197366_f065bb4c95.jpg

001 by watch_art2010, on Flickr

[TMLee]

Loving this thread!! So much beauty, humor and inspiration. I do have one question for those coloring their drawings: As a near-beginner, I'm using Pilot Precise rollingball pens for drawing and ordinary colored pencils for coloring, but I'd like to find a medium that gives more saturated colors and are more easily blendable. What should I use? Or can I get better results from my colored pencils by using them in a different way?

 

Thanks everyone, and I hope to see more wonderful art soon. I'll add mine when I finish something worth posting. Just doodling for now.

 

Mary

 

By coincidence, I was doodling sometime last week to experiment on the Noodler's Black ink.

 

I am not sure if this reply will be of any help to you.

 

These are 2 sketches rendered slightly differently...

Both using Noodler's Black ink.

Pen was a Rosetta North Star FP with a Pendleton crisp italic <M> nib custom ground to my requirements , ie 0.5mm nib strokewidth

Great nib ground by "pb2". This pen has become a worthy replacement to my old Osmiroid sketchpen.

I am impressed with this affordable FP. It starts wet everytime it touches paper. No skipping. I would have thought so for a thick ink like Noodler's Black. Then again I haven't let it remain unused for long enough.

 

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u236/TMLee/2010%20SKETCHES/Ink/Coloured%20Pencils/DSCF3530.jpg

The wash was applied not long after drawing, so you can see smudging in the black inks.

 

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u236/TMLee/2010%20SKETCHES/Ink/Coloured%20Pencils/DSCF3532.jpg

The bodies of the coloured pencils were rendered using kids acrylic paint in dried pallette form or the Lyra coloured pencils :hmm1: - now I forget

I can't tell becos the colours (on the tip vs the body) are so identical.

But the tip of the pencils in this drawing was coloured in using Lyra water soluble coloured pencils.

There are some parts of these tips that are lightly washed with a wet but clean brush to blend in the colours.

One side is darker and coloured in heavier to produce a darker more solid shade.

Its on the left side where I hatched in the shadow areas.

 

Here is a closeup where you can see the tips coloured in by coloured pencil ...

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u236/TMLee/2010%20SKETCHES/Ink/Coloured%20Pencils/DSCF3533.jpg

 

 

I suppose good quality coloured pencils shld be ready indentifiable in art stores.

Such as Berol. or Faber Castell - those for professionals.

I think I still have a artist magazine (from decades ago) solely featuring artwork with coloured pencils - truly astounding - the realism. Unbelievable.

 

Using a wet brush to wash will blend in fine but it will turn it into a pastel kind of wash.

You may be having a different effect in mind.

 

Anyway, enjoy your sketching

 

Let me experiment a bit more...

Edited November 2, 2010 by TMLee

[Writer2b]

Wow, watch_art, that's an impressive number of drawings. I'm quickly learning what sort of superhuman patience is required to do the crosshatching and shading...ugh! I did see Prismacolor in the store and you're right; they aren't cheap. Something to save up for when I get better at this. I just have "Artist's Loft" pencils, which is, I believe, Michael's store brand.

 

TMLee, love your pencils! The differences are subtle and now I'm thinking the color is secondary to the line drawing. Impressive drawing is impressive with or without color. I've considered using a wet brush to blend but didn't know if that would pucker the paper. I'll give it a shot; I want a more watercolor look, whether pastel or not.

 

Thank you both for the great advice and lovely artwork!

[choen]

http://www.aspectnetwork.com/public/20100923-fountainpens/s-20101105-choen-rhino-military.jpg

 

 

First time using the aurora pen + noodler's black on daler rowney cartridge paper sketchbook. Very strange how an M nib end up drawing like EF with this ink and paper combo.

[kiavonne]

Wow, watch_art, that's an impressive number of drawings. I'm quickly learning what sort of superhuman patience is required to do the crosshatching and shading...ugh! I did see Prismacolor in the store and you're right; they aren't cheap. Something to save up for when I get better at this. I just have "Artist's Loft" pencils, which is, I believe, Michael's store brand.

 

TMLee, love your pencils! The differences are subtle and now I'm thinking the color is secondary to the line drawing. Impressive drawing is impressive with or without color. I've considered using a wet brush to blend but didn't know if that would pucker the paper. I'll give it a shot; I want a more watercolor look, whether pastel or not.

 

Thank you both for the great advice and lovely artwork!

 

Hi, Mary.

 

I'm not an artist, but I've seen what can be done with just a pen or pencil or colored pencils. We have this thread to bear witness. My avatar was done only with colored pencils. It is just a small snippet of the entire picture, which I had commissioned from a very talented young lady in England. I have the original framed in my home.

 

You are getting some great advice in here from the masters of pen art (I bow to all). It doesn't matter which medium you use or if you mix and match, it only matters that it is your medium, and we can't wait to see what you have for us! Post some, and let us follow your progress.

Edited November 5, 2010 by kiavonne

[MassTahDohn]

http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n527/ModiHammarstedt/DSC00392.jpg?t=1289046764

 

A drawing of my Yafa using my Yafa. The equations you see are to find the volume (area) for the different parts of the pen. I like it a lot, but I don't have a scanner... Oh well!!!

[Pickwick]

Done with a bottle of antique Waterman's Aztec and pen

[Lloyd]

Awe inspiring work, Pickwick.

[darkenedwhisper]

I just realized I haven't drawn anything with ink since september, and haven't inked any drawing even longer...

So here I present some doodles made.

They needed to be as simple as possible, since they where to be drawn by someone else later on, so it's not that great...

 

http://th03.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2010/315/1/a/fountain_pen_doodles_1_by_mitsukitinky-d32nidh.jpg

 

If you wish to see drawing in pencil (calling for some inking) you can visit my D-Art Gallery

[girkdude]

I usually lurk in here, but just have to come out and say that is simply an AMAZING picture Pickwick!! Wow oh WOW!! :notworthy1: :notworthy1: :notworthy1:

[TMLee]

Wow, watch_art, that's an impressive number of drawings. I'm quickly learning what sort of superhuman patience is required to do the crosshatching and shading...ugh! I did see Prismacolor in the store and you're right; they aren't cheap. Something to save up for when I get better at this. I just have "Artist's Loft" pencils, which is, I believe, Michael's store brand.

 

TMLee, love your pencils! The differences are subtle and now I'm thinking the color is secondary to the line drawing. Impressive drawing is impressive with or without color. I've considered using a wet brush to blend but didn't know if that would pucker the paper. I'll give it a shot; I want a more watercolor look, whether pastel or not.

 

Thank you both for the great advice and lovely artwork!

 

 

As mentioned earlier that i will experiment more ,, well , this is a simple tryout...

Using LYRA watercolor pencils,

The red part was coloured pencil , then after that, gone over with a small wet brush carefully.

The words are coloured pencil in yellow and green.

The black is Noodlers Black using a Rosetta North Star with a Pendleton Cursive Italic.

Done in a smaller than A6 sized journal.

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u236/TMLee/2010%20SKETCHES/Ink/Coloured%20Pencils/DSCF3729.jpg

 

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u236/TMLee/2010%20SKETCHES/Ink/Coloured%20Pencils/DSCF3730.jpg

Edited November 17, 2010 by TMLee

[choen]

http://www.aspectnetwork.com/public/20100923-fountainpens/s-20101118-choen-swinetroopers.jpg