A Look At Playing

As a follow up on the sketch I showed you last post, I wanted to go into a little more detail.
That sketch was very quick, around five minutes, and very rough. It reminds me that I can do such a fast sketch and still get a likeness of my dad because I am familiar with the subject. Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishments-Zig Ziglar.

So that was a nice bonus. I did this little sketch to experiment with line, pens and water soluble inks. I wanted to include a loose ink drawing of dad in the sketchbook I am doing of him. (that I am falling sooo behind on!) I used a Pilot brush pen for the bold lines, many of which were dry by the time I got to them with water to do much playing with. In also used a pilot Kakuno medium nib fountain pen and a pilot ergo grip fine tip fountain pen. Both filled with water soluble ink for the purpose of painting. The lines from the fountain pens seemed to dissolve better. I think the brush pen ink is absorbed into the watercolor paper faster because there is such a wide line?  In any case, I was not happy with how this worked and will have to experiment more with my ink wash techniques before I attempt it in the sketchbook.

The second photo shows the pencil drawing in the book. This was done from a photo I took after I did the sketch. I am pleased with the drawing and now the trick is to give it life in watercolor without screwing it up!! Wish me luck and I will post my results later.