The Weekly Sketch ~ Themed Drawing Prompts For Members

[Pterodactylus]

Theme #14 "A Phone"

 

Obviously a older wired model.

Unfortunately I don´t know what they are discussing in that call.

 

 

 

(Procreate, Apple Pencil, iPad Pro)

[Lostcity]

Thanks for all the sketches everyone. I enjoy seeing them all and it's nice to participate when I find the time. Luckily I had time this morning, so here's my book for sketch #13.

 

 

Excellent post milkb0at! And thanks for including the poem as well!

[Lostcity]

What did you get?

 

I've got some rainy-day (and snowy-day) money set aside and can't decide if I want grab a couple of Lamy Safaris now or wait until a local shop has their bi-annual "show and sale" and grab something else. The shop is normally a bit over priced for me (they have some really top-end items) but when they do the 10% discounts, I can usually find something. I got the Sheaffers during the Fall show.

I received the ink spot with Wm Shakespeare, Jane Austen, EA Poe.... And a Lamy calligraphy pen. I haven't even tried the pen yet! Maybe today or tomorrow??

[SNAK]

Hi everyone, I have been away for a while from FPN and have started to catch up on the different threads that I read. I am so so behind on the sketches, I haven't done any of the themed sketches since before Christmas! There is no hope of catching up on the old ones so I will jump in with the new themes soon.

 

Just saying hi and that I'm still here.

 

Now I need to get cracking with the sketches.

[Pterodactylus]

Come on guys and gals, where are the new drawings?

 

Ok.....

Here is another phone. much more advanced than the previous model, but I wouldn´t really call it already a high tech one.

 

Theme #14 "A Phone"

 

 

(Procreate, Apple Pencil, iPad Pro)

[Pterodactylus]

And again another phone, this time a ancient wireless model.

Theme #14 "A Phone"

 

 

(Procreate, Apple Pencil, iPad Pro)

[snowbear]

Nice 'ptoons, ptero. I started the week being real busy at work; so much so that I didn't really feel like sketching anything. Now that the week is over, I'm fighting a bad chest cold and losing. I'll try to get something up tomorrow.

[Pterodactylus]

Ok, my 4th (and most likely the last) phone for this theme.

A old candlestick phone.

 

Theme #14 "A Phone"

 

 

(Procreate, Apple Pencil, iPad Pro)

[snowbear]

Taking some inspiration from Ptero . . .

 

cmw3_d40_104007 by Charlie Wrenn, on Flickr

 

Happy Valentine's Day

 

Lamy Safari XF point with Noodler's Rattler Red Eel,

Cross Adventura with Noodler's X-Feather

A touch of Iro. Tsukushi from a Lamy Vista fine.

Edited February 14, 2016 by snowbear

[milkb0at]

You know how some people love their iPhones so much it's as if they've put it on a pedestal? Well, here's my iPhone on a pedestal. The angles are slightly more interesting than a boring plan view of it - and it's still not that interesting. Still, it was quick!

 

Week #14 - a phone

 

 

- Pencil

- Platinum Carbon Pen

- My usual smudges from erasing pencil lines too quickly, plus a bad scan.

- Moleskine Pocket Sketchbook

Edited February 15, 2016 by milkb0at

[Sailor Kenshin]

Late to the party, as usual. One-half of a pair of Fair Isle-ish tennis sockies I knitted back when I was doing top-down, gusset-heel socks, this one with a cute little rolled top.

 

I blame InCo. And the cold weather. And insomnia. (See amazing portrait of Insomnia --- that I did not draw--- in PR Ebony Blue ink review).

 

Vintage journal paper with lines. Zzzzzzz.................

 

 

[Pterodactylus]

Theme #9 "Your Hand"

 

 

 

(Procreate, Apple Pencil, iPad Pro)

[Pterodactylus]

Theme #15 "Something you wear atop of your head"

 

This time again a traditional pencil one.

A Roman Murmillo gladiator helmet.

 

 

 

(Faber Castell - Castell 9000)

[snowbear]

I used to wear hats a lot, but very rarely do so now. This is one I use when it's cold outside.

 

2016-02-20 14.17.41.jpg by Charlie Wrenn, on Flickr

 

Diamine Blue Pearl (I guess I didn't shake up the shimmer enough), Noodler's Rattler Red Eel.

Initial sketching and lines with brush pen (blue) and Lamy Safari (red). Brush washes with the same inks: diluted the blue, used the red straight. Siggy and title with Blue Pearl from the Conklin.

Edited February 20, 2016 by snowbear

[Sailor Kenshin]

I'm way behind....partly due to InCo (International Correspondence Writing Month) and InSo (International Insomia Month). This almost-hat just needs a few more rounds to be wearable.

 

 

[snowbear]

Here we go with #16. This is NOT drawn from a real experience, or rather, not a recent one. Many years ago (when I was a kid) I did have a cat walk across an oil painting that wasn't completely dry.

 

The Fountain Pen Network Weekly Sketch #16; Spilled Liquid. by Charlie Wrenn, on Flickr

[milkb0at]

#15 - something I wear atop my head.

 

I decided to do my head torch, which gets used most days to put the chickens to bed and because I live down a dark, unlit, unpaved alley.

 

The scan is even worse than my usual effort - it's not actually that washed out and grey.

 

 

- Pencil outline

- Staedtler Pigment Liners 0.05, 0.3, 0.5mm

- Moleskine Pocket Sketchbook

 

It's the first time of using these pens. They certainly make things easy in some respects: solid, consistent lines; quick drying; waterproof; dead easy to use. But you do lose expressiveness with the constant width lines and constant colour, and it's a bit of a faff to keep switching pens to get the width you want. Still, I'll keep playing with them.

[snowbear]

"Head torch" . . . I love terms used in the UK.

 

I've used the Sakura Pigma "Micron" pens a little, but haven't tried those; something to look for. As far as the scan, try bumping up the contrast a bit. Sometimes I'll put a blank sheet of paper or two behind what I'm scanning to make the background whiter.

[snowbear]

OK. I found some time for #17. I did things a little differently, this time: colored pencils.

Two wooden spoons, a wood spatula, a small knife and a whisk in a glass pie plate.

 

cmw3_d40_6603 by Charlie Wrenn, on Flickr

[Polanova]

… only discovered this thread today & thought…lazy sunday