Pen and Ink

Week 1

​First week of year 2 has been interesting, getting used to everything being online has been hard and somewhat frustrating so I was especially glad that the projects this week have just been ink on paper because I'm already pretty sick of the headaches from staring at screens all the time! It’s been so nice getting back into it though, especially this blog. I didn't love my blog very much last year but I really want to get into it this year:)

​For these drawings I used two Micron fine liners in sizes 05 and 005, a very inky Pilot pen and (I'm sorry Tony) a Berol broad pen - only to fill in the large areas of black I promise. I basically just drew what came to mind and tried to experiment with different uses of line to create different looks and textures - one of my favourites is on the drawing of the hills on the second hill back, Tony showed us an illustration of Dwayne's where he had used this technique of drawing 3 parallel lines then doing another 3 in a different direction, I really liked how it looked so I gave it a go and ill definitely use it again:)

​I used Quink and a brush for this, I got the messy grey strokes just by doing all the dark areas then just basically smushing the almost dry brush around on the page. This isn't a style I would usually do but it was nice to do something looser and with less pressure to look perfect.

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A Room in the Flat

I chose to draw my kitchen, mainly because I have been spending all my time in here recently and will be continuing to do so for the foreseeable future since the desk in my room is far too small to sit at, so I have claimed the kitchen table as my new work space. I also have been wanting to do a drawing of my novelty mug collection so now seemed like the perfect opportunity for that. I've always been a fan of Tom Gauld and other just really clean line drawings so that's what I channelled for this piece.

​ Thought it would be fun to film some hyperlapses of me drawing this piece and it was really fun but I know - they look terrible. I had to stand my phone against a mug to be able to see what I was doing and the videos just haven't come out that well because of that but I still wanted to show them regardless because I have ordered a stand arm for my phone to hopefully film more in the future from a better angle. Also, they're filmed vertically which I know is a sin but again, I was doing my best with what I had. Another issue I ran into was struggling to get the videos onto this blog so I've had to upload them to YouTube and link them that way but this should mean that hopefully by the end of the year I’ll have a channel full of videos of me drawing and such.

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Instagram Posts of the Week

 I've decided I’ll put some Instagram posts that I'm loving or that have had me feeling inspired during the week at the bottom of my blog posts, so here they are!