Category Archives: line drawing

Two Dogs

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Ed Mostly

First there’s Skip, who sat beside me while I sketched people on a beach in Tenby. She was poised and alert, watching a gap in the fence where a rat had just appeared and vanished, but I had to be quick! Then there’s 3 … Continue reading →

Posted in animal, coloured ink, dogs, from life, line drawing, monochrome, pencil, pets | Tagged coloured inks, dog resting, drawing pets, fountain pen sketching, let sleeping dogs lie, pecil sketch of dog, sketches of pets, sketching dogs, sketching with Noodlers inks, The Exciters | 3 Comments

Yet more toys

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Ed Mostly

It’s cold and dark outside, but there are always toys to draw…. Here’s Henry (a mild mannered janitor), some Airfix 1:72 scale knights, a Playmobil vulture, a shire-horse, a grass-hopper, and The Thing from the Fantastic Four. Pencil, Lexington grey in fountain pen and water-brush, … Continue reading →

Posted in animals, collections, coloured ink, figures, insects, line drawing, monochrome, objects, toys | Tagged drawing toys, fountain pen sketches, grasshopper, Hong Kong Fooey, knights fighting, shire horse, sketches of small figures, The Thing, vulture | 3 Comments

Mightier…

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Ed Mostly

…than the sword. A quick post following the Paris attack where people were killed for publishing offensive cartoons, for drawing pictures that other people didn’t like. This was a direct attack on freedom of expression, and the right to challenge and mock authority. … Continue reading →

Posted in coloured ink, coloured paper, from life, hands, line drawing | Tagged Charlie Hebdo, fountain pen sketch, freedom of expression, hand holding pen, Martin Rowson, the pen is mightier than the sword | 2 Comments

Buskers, home and away

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Ed Mostly

The large numbers of tourists visiting Bath means that it is blessed with many good street entertainers, excellent models for a quick sketch, and mostly fine performers. So here’s another collection of buskers, this time including one I saw in Japan. … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buskers, coloured ink, coloured paper, figures, Japan, line drawing, people, street scene, urban | Tagged Bath, bath buskers, Ben Powell, Benji Ross, drawing street performers, fountain pen sketching, Joel Grainger, Khoomiiman, Kwabana Lindsay, Maruyama Park Kyoto, playing violin, saxophone player, sketching buskers, Steely Dan, street scene, urban sketching | 3 Comments

Happy New Year

Posted on January 2, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Welcome to 2015! This blog started two years ago and now gets about 50 visitors a day, so many thanks for your ongoing interest in my hobby. After sketching every day for almost four years I’ve settled to a particular set of resources, mostly fountain … Continue reading →

Posted in body, coloured ink, from life, hands, inks, Lexington grey, line drawing | Tagged drawing of a hand writing, fountain pen, fountain pen sketch, noodlers inks, self-portrait of hand, sketch of Lamy Safari, sketch of right hand, sketching with coloured inks, Wave Machines | 6 Comments

In Memoriam…

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Tombs, memorials and statues are another great source of patient models for sketching, so here are seven monochrome examples spanning three thousand years to finish 2014. ‘Memento Mori’ or ‘Memento Vivere’ depending on your mood in the run up to the … Continue reading →

Posted in body, collections, coloured ink, coloured paper, death, inks, line drawing, monochrome, monument, sculpture, skeleton, urban | Tagged Bath Abbey, Bronze age skull, dog at feet of knight, drawing of skull, Edwin Starr, Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, memorials, Prince Albert, Robert Recorde, sketching in churches, sketching statues, St Mary's Tenby, statue of dog, tombs, urban sketching | 1 Comment

My left hands…

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Ed Mostly

…eleven of them this time, in a range of media. It’s a very reliable model, always there when I’m stuck for something to draw at the end of a long (Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young and Jones!) day, increasingly familiar, but with a fairly … Continue reading →

Posted in body, collections, coloured ink, coloured paper, every day matters, from life, hands, inks, line drawing, monochrome, self-portrait, sketching | Tagged Crosby Stills Nash and Young, drawing own hand, fountain pen sketching, left hand, my left hand, noodlers inks, sketching hands, sketching with coloured inks, Tom Jones | 3 Comments

Him off the Teevee

Posted on December 25, 2014 by Ed Mostly

TV is always a good source of faces to sketch, press pause and they’ll happily pose for as long as you need; I like the way the drawings tend towards caricature. There’s sometimes a bit of lens/screen distortion on archive clips, and I … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, coloured paper, inks, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, people, sketching, television | Tagged Chef Oberoi, Dr Sam Willis, faces on tv, fast sketches of faces, fountain pen sketches, noodlers inks, Otis Redding, Peter Sarstedt, Sammy Davis Jr, sketching from the tv | 1 Comment

On the beach #3

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Ed Mostly

A final batch of monochromes from Tenby’s beaches. First the tractor that pulls a mobile jetty up and down the beach in time with the tides (here’s a similar beach-tractor in Aberporth), with sight-seers returning from a boat trip to Caldey Island. … Continue reading →

Posted in beach, boats, brush pen, clouds, coloured ink, coloured paper, from life, holiday, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, sea, Tenby, vehicles, Wales | Tagged beach tractor, beach-combing, Caldey Island, eroded rocks, mobile jetty, monochrome sketches, piddocks, Primal Scream, seaside sketching, Tenby harbour, tractor, urban sketching | 4 Comments

On the beach #2

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Another couple of coastal sketches from Tenby. First a collection of people on the beach (both in full technicolor and the original on location line-drawing), followed by the same beach seen from a cliff-top bench, with nautical railings obscuring the view. Beaches are … Continue reading →