My Sketch Dump

[Intellidepth]

Hi TeaHive, dumb question but how do you do the washes? Do u use a paintbrush dipped in water or diluted ink? Or rely on the pen ink lines to provide the wash?

[TeaHive]

I use brushes dipped in water, or those handy little waterbrushes that have a water reservoir and brush tip, over top the drawing.

[TeaHive]

 

 

This reminds me of beautiful old Chinese silk embroidery.

 

Your work is lovely!

 

Thanks! There was no intention when I began this doodle. I just started making random patterns. Reminds me a bit of a topographical map!

[Tas]

TeaHive

Esterbrook 358 nib in a Noodler's Ahab, Diamine Salamander

 

 

 

Love your drawings and delighted to see the much maligned Salamander used so beautifully in a wash. More please . . .

[TeaHive]

Thanks! I LOVE Diamine Salamander. It looks different in just about every pen I put it in. Sometimes more green, sometimes more brown, sometimes more grey.. It's an adventure by itself!

[Tas]

Thanks! I LOVE Diamine Salamander. It looks different in just about every pen I put it in. Sometimes more green, sometimes more brown, sometimes more grey.. It's an adventure by itself!

 

Couldn't agree more. I nearly binned it when I tried it in my Taranis but it's devine in a wet pen.

[TeaHive]

Doodley doo... More doodles.

 

 

Little pansies, Diamine Grey, Merlot, and a custom green mix.

 

 

 

 

Pilot Petit brush pens filled with various inks, blended with a waterbrush, highlighted with a white watercolor pencil.

 

 

 

And some mindless doodling with my Pelikan Twist and Manuscript Sepia. ^_^;

 

[Sailor Kenshin]

I love the pansies! Moar plz.

[inkstainedruth]

Too many highly talented people. I think I'll have to crawl back under my rock...

Everyone has different talents. I can draw, but can't play an instrument. Or juggle. My brother can't draw, but has perfect pitch. My grandmother did all sorts of arts and crafts stuff; my mom, on the other hand was all thumbs -- but published over 40 novels.

There is probably something you can do for which I can only look on with envy.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Cryptos]

 

There is probably something you can do for which I can only look on with envy.

 

I think I may surprise you there Ruth. When you look in the dictionary under the word 'average' it has my name.

 

I am good at being really annoying. Hardly something to be envious of.

[Qfwfq]

This is really wonderful.

[TeaHive]

Thanks all!

 

I do love me some doodlin'. Sometimes I have the urge to just hold a pen, but don't know what to do with it, other than knowing I want to put ink to paper. Even if it's just a little pattern of some kind.

 

A bit zen-like, that.

[Sailor Kenshin]

I can't believe I once did this copy of/homage to a poster. And I'm not even a Deadhead.

 

 

 

NO idea what I used, whether fountain pen, marker, crow quill, dragon blood....

[TeaHive]

Looks great!! I don't think I've ever listened to the Grateful Dead, but they certainly have some interesting art floating around.

 

I haven't had much time to doodle or sketch lately. Booooo..

[gammada]

Wow, love those sketches of yours TeaHive!

 

I only color my drawings when working on the digital realm. In the atoms world, I'm more of a monotone kind of guy.

 

Anyway, here's my various sketches. From left to right, my little sketch notebook that gets filled whenever the urge to put pen to paper strikes, a sheet of paper from a notepad that I use to annotate random data, practice my handwriting and draw cute characters for my daughter; my work notebook where I develop graphic ideas for websites, animations, logos, screens, posters, postcards, etc; and last, but certainly not least, my Japanese album that I'm filling up with those furniture designs that I love.

[Sailor Kenshin]

Astronauts! Kittehs! Furniture! Love it.

 

I haven't sketched in what seems like forever. There's been a lot of hurry-up-and-wait around here which eats up my time. So I'm happy to see other people's work.

[gammada]

Astronauts! Kittehs! Furniture! Love it.

I haven't sketched in what seems like forever. There's been a lot of hurry-up-and-wait around here which eats up my time. So I'm happy to see other people's work.

Well, then put those pens to good use! Don't let circumstances take that part of you.

 

Once upon a time I stopped sketching and drawing for the better part of almost 10 years. I turned myself into a computer operating drone that forgot how handwritten words used to look like. In those dark days I hardly cared for writing tools -let alone fountain pens, and went from being 'good' at drawing things, to barely making sketches that I rarely got to finish and that for the most part ended on a trash bin. The only thing I cared about in those dark days was inputting things into my Palm PDA's, typing stuff into a keyboard and later tapping into the screens of iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads.

 

A year ago, I was filling some forms while renewing my passport when I suddenly noticed that my hand just couldn't keep up with a normal writing pace and the looks of my handwriting were like those from kindergarten child, only smaller and somewhat more squared. At that precise moment I knew I had to do something. Went I got back home, I went straight into a drawer to find the only fountain pen I owned at that point (Parker Vector Fling) that sat unused since the day it's first and only inking had run out. It was given to me as a gift in 2005!!!

 

Since then, hardly a day passes by without me writing, sketching or drawing something. Reverting to pen and paper totally changed my life for the better!

[TeaHive]

Nice sketches, and nice Pencil by 53! Not gonna lie, I originally bought my iPad just so I could do digital art on Paper by 53, and possibly print books in the future. I thought it would be nice to make little books for my kiddo and print them off for him as gifts on birthdays and holidays. Never got around to it. xD Perhaps I should start now, and already have a gift idea ready for Christmas.

 

I've been doing lots of book-binding and writing lately, not so much doodling. At least not with pens. I have a couple pencil sketches I did recently. And one unfinished pen sketch, now that I think about it.

[Sailor Kenshin]

Well, then put those pens to good use! Don't let circumstances take that part of you.

Once upon a time I stopped sketching and drawing for the better part of almost 10 years. I turned myself into a computer operating drone that forgot how handwritten words used to look like. In those dark days I hardly cared for writing tools -let alone fountain pens, and went from being 'good' at drawing things, to barely making sketches that I rarely got to finish and that for the most part ended on a trash bin. The only thing I cared about in those dark days was inputting things into my Palm PDA's, typing stuff into a keyboard and later tapping into the screens of iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads.

A year ago, I was filling some forms while renewing my passport when I suddenly noticed that my hand just couldn't keep up with a normal writing pace and the looks of my handwriting were like those from kindergarten child, only smaller and somewhat more squared. At that precise moment I knew I had to do something. Went I got back home, I went straight into a drawer to find the only fountain pen I owned at that point (Parker Vector Fling) that sat unused since the day it's first and only inking had run out. It was given to me as a gift in 2005!!!

Since then, hardly a day passes by without me writing, sketching or drawing something. Reverting to pen and paper totally changed my life for the better!

 

Separated at birth?

 

Seriously...thanks. I will take this to heart. My handwriting's never going to be anything special, but at least I have been writing pen pal letters! Once in a blue moon, I've included a doodle.

[gammada]

Nice sketches, and nice Pencil by 53! Not gonna lie, I originally bought my iPad just so I could do digital art on Paper by 53, and possibly print books in the future. I thought it would be nice to make little books for my kiddo and print them off for him as gifts on birthdays and holidays. Never got around to it. xD Perhaps I should start now, and already have a gift idea ready for Christmas.

 

I've been doing lots of book-binding and writing lately, not so much doodling. At least not with pens. I have a couple pencil sketches I did recently. And one unfinished pen sketch, now that I think about it.

That's funny, I also wanted to print a journal for the very same purpose, but the option is not available (or wasn't) to MX users. But you must definitely do! Your drawings would look gorgeous on those nice moleskine books.

 

BTW Do you have a Mix account? Any blog where I could read your writings?

 

Speaking of Pencil, even thou it is the best stylus I've ever used (by far), it simply pales in comparison to the actual act of putting ink to paper. Don't know about you, but the feeling of real paper (specially of the high-quality kind) under your hand, the smell, the texture of the pen, and the immediate and continuos flow of ink, can't compare to the feel of walnut, rubber and glass... let's not even talk of the delay and distortion between what you actually draw and what appears on-screen.