Category Archives: technique

Testing, testing…

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Ed Mostly

All my sketchbooks have back pages like this, messing around with inks, pens, pencil and paints, seeing how new resources mix with each other on paper; great fun! In amongst the chaos there are occasional serendipitous combinations and miniature abstract … Continue reading →

Posted in collections, coloured ink, inks, kit, pencil, technique | Tagged ink and paint combinations, serendipitous combinations and miniature abstract delights, sketchbooks, testing sketch materials, The Ramones | 2 Comments

Selfies, again

Posted on April 30, 2016 by Ed Mostly

The usual parade of glum and suspicious late night portraits… Sherry says the third one is how I’ll look when I’m seventy! In the second one my mouth is my third hand, holding the extra brush-pen I’m using. By the next one I’d … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, faces, ink brush, Inktense, self-portrait, technique | Tagged analogue selfies, Anton Karas, brush-pen sketching, Derwent Inktense pencils, monochrome, sketching kit, sketching self-portraits, Sungha Jung | 2 Comments

More illustrations

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Ed Mostly

An antique phone, a g-clamp, and nine leather jackets; all from life, and all illustrating a particular story in Barry’s book. It’s interesting to be using fountain-pen for these, as almost all my daily sketching is now done using brush-pens. Pen-lines have … Continue reading →

Posted in Barry's book, clothing, domestic, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, technique | Tagged Barry's book, domestic sketching, drawing of antique telephone, drawing of g-clamp, drawing of leather jackets, fountain pen sketches, ink drawing illustrations, Joe Loss, lexington grey shadows, monochrome | 2 Comments

Bosky

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Looking up a steep slope past an old yew tree, deep in the mossy/rocky woods below Bath University (Alex and Jim know the spot); followed by the boots that carried me there. The tree sketch line work was done on site, shade and colour … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, boots, botany, brush pen, coloured ink, Lexington grey, rural, technique, trees, white pen | Tagged Kuretake #8 brush pen, Noodlers inks for sketching, Sakura white pen, sketch of boots, sketch of yew tree, sketching in Bath, sketching trees, The Suzan, woodland sketch | 7 Comments

Tenby people

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Ed Mostly

The last few Summer sketches from Tenby. This time people-watching around the town, moving from fountain-pen to ink-brush for the key lines. I was using a fairly ‘blunt’ brush then (a well-worn detailer water-brush) filled with dilute ink, so the pictures weren’t as crisp as the … Continue reading →

Posted in beach, brush pen, comparisons, figures, holiday, ink brush, monochrome, people, people watching, technique, Tenby, urban, urban sketching, Wales | Tagged brush pen sketches, Can, ink brush sketching, moving from pen to brush, sketches of people on holiday, sketches of people waiting, sketches of seated people, Sketching in Tenby, sketching people by the sea, using ink in a water-brush | 2 Comments

Pencil landscapes

Posted on November 21, 2015 by Ed Mostly

As a break from ink-brush propaganda here are some pencil landscapes from the Summer. The first is on a lane in Lancashire during a light rain shower, the second and third on the Galloway coast (clouds over the distant Isle … Continue reading →

Posted in blind drawing, clouds, Galloway, landscape, line drawing, pencil, sea, technique | Tagged Blind Boys of Alabama, blind drawing foliage, gum arabic as fixative, pencil landscape sketches, sketch of birds on a wire, sketch of sky at dusk, sketches of Galloway coast, sketching in pencil | 6 Comments

Daily sketch-kit updated

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A simpler kit; less is more, and much lighter in the pocket! Details here…

Posted in brush pen, ink brush, inks, kit, Lexington grey, technique, waterbrush | Tagged Can, home-made water-colour palette, ink brush sketching, Kuretake #40, minimal sketch kit, portable sketching kit, sketching kit, urban sketching kit | 5 Comments

Twilight

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A couple of sketches looking South from Bath towards Stantonbury Hill at dusk, trying to catch the receding planes of trees in the autumnal half-light. And then five earlier attempts at the same view from the last few years, trying out water-colour, coloured … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, comparisons, landscape, Lexington grey, technique, urban, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged Bath sketching, sketches of views from Bath, sketching at dusk, Stantonbury Hill, The Dave Clark Five, urban sketching technique | 1 Comment

Homework…

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Ed Mostly

I rarely sketch from photos, but the wonderfully encyclopaedic People of the Twenty-First Century by Hans Eijkelboom is a treasure trove of reference images for the urban sketcher. It’s a beautiful catalogue of real people going about their lives, and copying the pictures … Continue reading →

Posted in faces, figures, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, people, sequential, technique, urban sketching | Tagged 'People of the Twenty First Century', Hans Eijkelboom, ink brush sketching, Malcolm Mclaren, practising urban sketching, sketching from photos, sketching people, sketching urban figures, urban sketching | 3 Comments

Fairly fast

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Ed Mostly

I had great fun yesterday at our sketch-crawl on the roof of Bath Abbey, I’ll scan and post pictures soon. In the meantime here are some speedy urban sketches from the last few months, using a variety of materials; the lines and basic shadow patterns were done fast … Continue reading →