The Weekly Sketch ~ Themed Drawing Prompts For Members

[lacie]

Happy to have found this thread.

 

I've never drawn with my fountain pens before. When I draw I always use pencil, artliner and alcohol markers and do very realistic images. To challenge myself I'm aiming for quick images, no more 5 minutes per drawing. Hopefully I'll see some improvement from where I start...

 

First up my favourite tea cup

 

Pens: TWSBI 580AL F & Platinum Preppy M

Paper: some scrap student grade water colour paper I had laying around.

Inks: Pilot Iroshizuku: Ku-Jaku & Tsutsuju, Toucan: Sienna & Primrose, the ink that comes in a black platinum preppy.

 

[migo984]

Week #3 Condiments

 

Very quick sketch today of good old British Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce.

 

Platinum Carbon Black - Sailor Sapporo EF & Pilot Prera M

Sailor Do-you for the sauce

BungBox Sunset and Sailor Jentle Apricot for the label

Kuretake Zig Waterbrush

Dahler Rowney Eco 100% recycled drawing paper.

 

 

[Pterodactylus]

All of these are wonderful!

 

Did this in about 5 seconds, and went cartoony, because, toofbrush. Jurassic Park. Threatening.

 

 

 

 

(Serwex MB flex EMF ..... ESS Registrars Blue Black)

(Pentel Waterbrush)

(Rohrer & Klingner Glass Pen)

(J. Herbin Rose Cyclamen)

(Caran d`Ache Caribbean Sea)

(P.W. Akkerman Hofkwartier Groen)

[milkb0at]

Week #3, condiment

 

Here's my bottle of HP Sauce from the fridge.

 

Pen: Gillott 404 dip pen

Inks: Parker Quink Blue, Noodler's Walnut

Paper: Moleskine pocket sketchbook

Method:

 

1) Pencil first

2) Realise an HP bottle isn't as easy to draw as I thought. There are all the subtle curves and reflections in the plastic, plus of course the Royal Crest and Houses of Parliament, which as you can see I somewhat glossed over.

3) Knock over my bottle of Quink. Luckily it was nearly empty so it only puddled on the table not my clothes or drawing, but my fingers did get covered, hence some blue splotches on the left of the paper.

4) Apply ink.

5) Start to erase the pencil lines. Realise that the Walnut still hadn't dried even after an hour, hence the smudges when I erased the pencil lines. Very annoying.

6) Vow never to use Noodlers again for sketching.

[migo984]

Week #3, condiment

 

Here's my bottle of HP Sauce from the fridge.

 

Pen: Gillott 404 dip pen

Inks: Parker Quink Blue, Noodler's Walnut

Paper: Moleskine pocket sketchbook

Method:

 

1) Pencil first

2) Realise an HP bottle isn't as easy to draw as I thought. There are all the subtle curves and reflections in the plastic, plus of course the Royal Crest and Houses of Parliament, which as you can see I somewhat glossed over.

3) Knock over my bottle of Quink. Luckily it was nearly empty so it only puddled on the table not my clothes or drawing, but my fingers did get covered, hence some blue splotches on the left of the paper.

4) Apply ink.

5) Start to erase the pencil lines. Realise that the Walnut still hadn't dried even after an hour, hence the smudges when I erased the pencil lines. Very annoying.

6) Vow never to use Noodlers again for sketching.

 

I love your sketch. I was going to do an HP bottle but chickened out because of the Houses of Parliament and other fancy stuff on the label

I fudged the Royal Crest on my bottle of Lea & Perrins - too complicated for my skill level....

[ThyPenMaker]

For the rest of the 318.9 million Americans who have never heard of the stuff (love the snotrag part):

 

HP Sauce is a brown sauce^[1] originally produced by HP Foods in theUnited Kingdom, now produced by the H. J. Heinz Company in theNetherlands. It is named for the Houses of Parliament. It was the best-selling brand of brown sauce in the UK in 2005, with 73.8% of the retail market.^[2] HP Sauce has a malt vinegar base, blended with tomato, dates, tamarind extract, sweetener and spice.

The original recipe for HP Sauce was invented and developed by Frederick Gibson Garton, a grocer from Nottingham.^[5] He registered the name H.P. Sauce in 1895. Garton called the sauce HP because he had heard that a restaurant in the Houses of Parliament had begun serving it.^[6] For many years the bottle labels have carried a picture of the Houses of Parliament. Garton sold the recipe and HP brand to Edwin Samson Moore for the sum of £150 and the settlement of some unpaid bills.^[6] Moore, the founder of the Midlands Vinegar Company (the forerunner of HP Foods), subsequently launched HP Sauce in 1903.

For many years the description on the label was in both English and French. The factory in Aston, Birmingham, was once bisected by the A38(M) motorway and had a pipeline, carrying vinegar over the motorway, from the Top Yard to the main Tower Road factory site. The Top Yard site was subsequently closed, and vinegar was not brewed on the Aston site during the last few years of production there. HP Sauce in its original years was known as "The Handkerchief" because of the reversal of the name "Garton's" ('snotrag' being U.K. slang for handkerchief).^[7]

[Pterodactylus]

milkboat, what you can try is to use a hair-dryer to dry your drawings before you erase the pencil lines.

 

I use one regularly when I immediately want to continue.

Many times I use ESS and normally it do not smudge when I erase over a normal line, but if I went over a line several times or colored a whole area and the paper was really wet it might smudge when I continue immediately (the next day it is normally no problem at all).

So I blow it dry (hottest setting, strongest blow setting) from a short distance (about half a minute).

 

Maybe it's wrong but I have the impression that the heat accelerate the oxidation process of the IG ink, and for sure it will remove any remaining humidity.

[Pira]

Weekly Sketch #3 ~ A condiment

 

Drawn with Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Goldgrun with a Noodler's Charlie pen & #6 round watercolour brush on Stillman&Birn, Zeta paper

 

 

 

 

FPN Sketch #3 ~ condiment by Pira Urosevic, on Flickr

Edited November 24, 2015 by Pira

[Pira]

Goodpens ~ Great condiment share! You worked through a whole slew of pens and colours for that pommegranate molasses ~ much more ambitious than me. See we didn't even nibble at ya.

 

Snowbear ~ it's the return of cat! =^..^= Hope your helper didn't get any hot sauce on those paws while you were busy putting pen to paper!

 

inkyfingr ~ Welcome to the party with your garlicky goodness

 

lacie ~ Glad you found us and decided to pull up a chair with a very arty entry for a cuppa. That's a good challenge to set for yourself. This sketching forces us to really look closely doesn't it?

 

migo984 ~ I'm glad to see someone else has Lee & Perrins in the cupboard and you did a great job sketching 'er up.

 

Pterodactylus ~ there seems to be a great sub theme going on here about sentient toothbrushes. AWESOME!

 

milkb0at ~ Yesss and we have HP Sauce! You had the same thoughts that I did when I started dismissing bottles in my cupboard and fridge for drawing. I did not want anything with uber busy labels. You did a great job in spite of your trials and tribbulations. I find that Noodler's inks can be brats about drying time (weeks even)...so might I recommend a blotter ? ...just paper towel pressed down a top and pulled up gently to remove the worse of it.

 

Inkfillet ~ lucky Canucks straddle the fence on UK & US food stuffs so we have the best of both and the spelling too

[Cyber6]

Week #3 Condiments

 

Very quick sketch today of good old British Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce.

 

Best CONDIMENT EVER!!!!!!!!! :puddle: :puddle:

[Cyber6]

Weekly Sketch #3 ~ A condiment

 

Drawn with Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Goldgrun with a Noodler's Charlie pen & #6 round watercolour brush on Stillman&Birn, Zeta paper

 

 

Pira.. you are very talented.... I could print that on a poster size and hang it in my living room.... Better than that silly can of soup... :lol:

 

 

C.

[milkb0at]

Thanks for the Noodlers tips. I did blot with tissue, and tested with my finger, but obviously the pressure and friction of the eraser was more severe and smudged. I'll try a hairdryer next time, but to be honest I probably won't use Walnut again. I haven't had any problems with Carbon Black, Registrars, Higgins Eternal (took a little while but dried solid) or Quink Blue. I probably prefer drier inks as a rule, anyway.

[milkb0at]

And delicious looking capers there, Pira. An excellent drawing as usual.

[IrishEyes]

That drawing of capers is beautiful! I'd purchase a print of that and hang it on the wall in an appropriate frame. Normally, condiments and still life aren't my "thing", but that drawing blows me away! Lovely.

[SNAK]

This is my belated (it's already Sunday here where I am) contribution for the last week.

 

#3 Condiment

 

Vegemite by ---SNAK---, on Flickr

Pen: Braus 66EF dip pen

Ink: De Atramentis Document Black, Magenta, and Yellow. Dr. Martin's Pen White.

Watercolour wash over ink.

 

Thoughts: This week was hectic! And it's not even December. I also just wanted to get it done, so I chose the tube Vegemite as opposed to the glass jar, because the tube looked easier with less reflective surface and curves. We have both tube and jar and use the tube Vegemite to smear onto our dog's medication.

I used the coloured permanent inks for the lines again this week, but didn't do the shading in ink. I just relied on the watercolour wash to suggest the shadows, but I feel it wasn't enough the right side could have used a bit more shadow.

 

Now on to the citrus slices!

[Tas]

Another lovely week of sketches from everyone.

Loving the Lee & Perrins Migo984.

Respect to milkb0at for conquering the angular HP.

OMG Pira, your light and shades, beautiful.

SNAK, stunning as usual and I had a similar idea. However, I didn't want to raise the old rivalry between Vegemite & Marmite so I bit off a little more than I could chew and had the "bright" idea of a "demonstrator" salt grinder. ?!

 

http://www.taskyprianou.com/fpn_pira_nov_3_2015.jpg

 

Pen - Noodler's nib creeper (also demonstrator)
Ink - Waterman's Intense black.

Paper - A Linen sample gifted by therealscubasteve (can't recall exactly what it is)

 

1st time ever sketching on linen paper. The pen and ink run away with you. Whilst this may be nice when writing a letter, I found it a mare sketching. No control. No colour split from my beloved Waterman's black either. I'll stick to more absorbent paper next time. Living and learning. . .

 

[Pira]

Cyber6 ~ thank-you. I can only dream of being even even remotely as good as that.

 

milkb0at ~ Thanks. I think a hairdryer would not be unreasonable with Noodler's inks. I don't have one so it usually comes down to just waiting or blotting AND waiting. I literally walk away so I'm not tempted.

 

SNAK ~ more document inks with your outstanding condiment entry. I need to start trying out the ones I've recently picked up but I tend to rely on the way fp ink spreads for shading. I'm guessing they use vegemite for pet purposes the way North Americans use peanut butter.

 

Graphophile ~ Oh you nailed that grinder! I have never heard that term before ' a mare' but you know...I think I understood it immediately. Some surfaces just refuse to play nice Oh yeah....the demonstrator. I had the same brilliant idea of a bottle of capers and then realized as I was drawing it that ....oh no...i have to draw the contents too!

 

** Super week everyone! We have reached into our pantries and pulled out some great stuff. Looking closer than we ever thought we would at a single item in our kitchen cupboard or fridge, hopefully polished up our observational skills. It certainly burnished my avoidance skills. When I chose my object to draw it was with the eye of someone who didn't want anything too darn compliated and boy the shelves seem to be crammed with those!!

 

OKAY folks it's week #4 and time to squirt those creative juices onto paper! As for myself...I am readying a new list that will go live next Sunday for the month of December.

Edited November 29, 2015 by Pira

[inkstainedruth]

I am *sooo* far behind. I finally got week #1's drawing done yesterday morning (well, I had done one when I was at OPS earlier in the month but never had time to get it scanned in...). So, hopefully, when I have a bit of a breather between loads of laundry I can get those two drawings uploaded, then *maybe* have time do work on the other ones... (SNAK is not the only one who's had a hectic November... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Pira]

I am *sooo* far behind. I finally got week #1's drawing done yesterday morning (well, I had done one when I was at OPS earlier in the month but never had time to get it scanned in...). So, hopefully, when I have a bit of a breather between loads of laundry I can get those two drawings uploaded, then *maybe* have time do work on the other ones... (SNAK is not the only one who's had a hectic November... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

 

No worries

 

I expect it will only get more hectic as we hit the holiday season. Post when you can

[snowbear]

There are some wonderful sketchers here. I'll have to work extra hard to even get close.

 

I have the beginning pencil outlines of a sketch. It isn't sliced citrus, but rather three sections from a peeled citrus. It is of a ruby grapefruit. I started on it on Monday as I took off from work this week. I was going to hit it with Ir. Momiji and upload it today. But I can't reliably ink it since I ate the grapefruit.

 

Oh, well. I guess I'll pick one up from the store and ink the drawing before I devour that one.