Sketch With Me :: Pen & Ink Fisherman's Cottage
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Come sketch with me! In this 90 minute real-time urban sketching tutorial I share with you my entire process for sketching a fun wobbly fisherman's cottage in pen and ink. If you'd like to try sketching this scene yourself, the reference photo and all the sketching gear I used are listed below. The location is Penzance, Cornwall, England.
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REFERENCE PHOTO
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MUSIC
Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound
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Tracklist:
As I Dream / Johannes Bornlöf
Eye of the Storm / Johannes Bornlöf
Sprinkle / Johannes Bornlöf
Ethos / Johannes Bornlöf
Cry / Johannes Bornlöf
Frontiers / Johannes Bornlöf
One Voice / Johannes Bornlöf
We Trust / Johannes Bornlöf
Goodbye Is Not The End
Wolfpack / Johannes Bornlöf
Dear Sleep / Johannes Bornlöf
Twinkle of the Lights / Johannes Bornlöf
Out of Darkness / Johannes Bornlöf
Impressions of You / Gavin Luke
Dreamscapes / Kasper Schill
Origo / Bonn Fields
As a Gift / Francis Wells
Prairie Song / Gavin Luke
Intangible / Franz Gordon
Une Histoire D'Amour / Franz Gordon
Inner Spaces / Gavin Luke
Calm Above The Clouds / Trevor Kowalski
April Snow / Gavin Luke
Monumental Doubt / Rand Aldo
Limitation (scaled down version) / Vincent & A Secret
As The Years Go By / Johannes Bornlöf
The Rose and the Storm / Johannes Bornlöf
Burned Letters / Johannes Bornlöf
The Antique Store / Johannes Bornlöf
Keeping Up With It / Many Moons Ago
Lumina / Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
A World of Difference / Johannes Bornlöf
I Cannot See You / Cercles Nouvelles
SKETCHING GOODIES
Here are the products I used in this video and where I bought them. Products marked ** are affiliate links which earn me a few pennies when you make a purchase - it’s an easy way you can support Urban Sketchy, while costing you nothing extra, and would be genuinely appreciated. Maybe afterwards we can be best friends or pen pals or whatever. Thank you!
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SKETCHBOOK
** Leuchtturm 1917 Sketchbook, Square, Lemon
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FOUNTAIN PEN
Pilot Metropolitan Retro Pop Fountain Pen (also called the Pilot MR)
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BOTTLED INK
** De Atrimentis Document Ink, Black
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PEN INK CONVERTER
** Pilot Piston Converter CON-40
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BRUSH MARKER PENS
** Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Brush Pens (soft brush), 8 Shades of Grey
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** Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Brush Pen Set (firmer tip), 12 Intensive Colours in Workstation (contains the yellow)
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or...
** Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Brush Pens (firmer tip), individual colours
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PUTTY ERASER
** Faber-Castell Soft Kneadable Art Eraser
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I love your wobbly lines. They add character and free up the perfectionist in me. Thank you!
Thanks Kathleen. It definitely helps to get away from perfectionism!
Thank you 😊. I thoroughly enjoyed this vid. I've been painting in oils for years and I really liked urban Sketches so I thought I would give it a go. Oi Vey! It's very different. Watching you is helping a LOT!
😃 😊 😀 Kim
Excellent, thank you. Yes sketching is very different, but if you’ve been painting with oils for so long you’ll certainly already know a lot more about this arty stuff than I do 😁 Thanks for watching!
These vids are perfect, you also sketch slowly so I learn so much more
Thanks Leslie, yes I do draw at the slower end of the scale! Glad you found it helpful.
Hi Donald, nice to see how you take your time with the process. Also, it's nice to see you use a fountain pen, you're very lucky to have found one.
Thank you, yes like to take my time, it’s meant to be relaxing so I try not to rush. It was definitely a stroke of luck to find the pen, saved buying one!
I have watched a number of your videos now after discovering you. You have such a calming presence and I have learnt so much from you. I really like your video format and can’t wait to watch more. Thank you for recording in real time, it really helps to hear about the process and thinking. I love your honesty and genuine nature. To top off your music is so relaxing. Again thank you.
Hi Tracey, thanks so much, really appreciate that. So nice when someone connects with what I’m trying to do. Sometimes I do wonder if I’m on the right track with these videos given how few people actually watch them, but feedback like this really does make it worth all the effort, so thank you too!
Cheers, Donald.
Interesting!
Thanks 🙂
Thanks so much for sharing this, I’ve got so much from it! I’ll be doing this tomorrow and popping the results on my instagram. I didn’t realise tombow weren’t lightfast, so thanks for that. Thanks also for doing this in real time, it’s super helpful - and the music Choice is inspired.
Ah great, good luck with your attempt. Glad you found it helpful. Yes the Tombows will fade over time, the company state this themselves. If it’s in a closed sketchbook it wouldn’t matter, just if the drawings were exposed to light. Thanks, Donald.
That was as near to a mediative drawing video as it gets. Great voice over, perfect music choice and a cracking sketch, what more could the viewer ask for.
A few months ago I did a series of pen sketches based on (well, copied for my own use and practice only) of pictures by the wonderful Sydney R Jones who did some amazing English Country Village house sketches in the early 1900s. He has a great style which I hoped to develop for a style of my own. I used a Seawhite square sketch book which I really enjoyed using. For the pen work, I used a Sailor Fude pen and for fine detail I used a Lamy Safari extra fine nib fountain pens. Much as fine liner pens are the most commonly used pens in art, they are not environmentally sound. A lot of plastic gets thrown away in those things. I love drawing with fountain pens, there is just something about using them that makes me want to draw, more organic feeling than fine liner pens
Thank you Graham, very kind indeed 😊 The music took so long to curate! I do enjoy listening to modern classical music, especially piano. Also appreciate the feedback on the voiceover, this was the first recording with my new microphone so I’m hoping the audio is louder and clearer from now on.
I just looked up Sydney R Jones, wow his drawings are stunning. His cityscapes of London are mind-bogglingly detailed. Thanks so much for bringing him to my attention, I’d never heard of him. Recently I have been looking at Whistler’s sketches of Venice, reminds me of those in some ways. I love discovering all this stuff, a lifetime of art has passed me by until the last year or so.
I like the idea of recreating a classic artist’s sketches as part of your learning, I’d be intrigued to try that myself. Do you put your drawings online or just keep them in your sketchbook?
Agreed on fountain pens as well, it did feel very different to fineliners, it glides over the page. I still have some fineliners to use up but I doubt I’ll buy more, as you say they are wasteful, even with plenty ink left in them I’m throwing them away because the nib has worn out. A whole new world of fountain pens awaits, I will be trying the fude nib once I’m more practiced with my current pen. Cheers, Donald.
@@UrbanSketchy My Sydney R Jones are still in my sketchbook as I am not sure of copyright issues posting them in the public domain. I have signed them all as me ‘After Sydney R Jones’ so I am not trying to pass them off as my own. I have shared them in closed art groups before though as they know what the origin of my attempts at emulating the man himself.
That makes sense, copyright law is bewildering. Even drawing a picture based on a photo is classed as a derivative work so not allowed unless the photo is copyright free.
@@UrbanSketchy it is an issue but (and I don’t know this for certain) I have seen videos where an artist paints one of the classic works of art as a learning experience and these do not appear to get removed or censored so I don’t know. I think a lot of artists must have copied the work of artists that inspired them to learn the techniques.
Definitely I can see similarities with Steven Reddy's method and style on a number of steps in your process: 1:32 quick and loose sketch to start and establish the composition, 7:00 bold single line stroke drawing, 1:00:50 grayscaling with India Ink. I love what You are doing. Since you have 4 shades of excellently easy to use gray brushes, you don't need the exact 3-step ink layering technique from the Reddy's method. It would be interesting to see how you would continue with coloring, if you wanted to? Using colored brush pens on top of the grayscale parts?
I think that’s why I was drawn to his work, he has an approach that aligned with my own way of doing things and helped me improve it for sure. I haven’t been sketching very long so my style might well evolve and hopefully keep improving. If I’m doing colour I prefer to do it the opposite way to him, put the colour down first and then add contrast over the top using the greys. There’s no right or wrong with any of this, just a case of experimenting and finding way that works for our own preferences.
Cheers, Donald.
Thank you, Donald, for sharing this video of your drawing process in real time. It is really helpful to see and encouraging as well since no matter how much I know that videos are speeded up, it seems so smooth and quick as opposed to my choppy and slow drawing. The only thing better for me would be if we had a few from early on in the process. I know I shouldn't compare myself to others I see, but to an ingrained self-critic it just slips in automatically and becomes discouraging. One question about your fountain pen: You indicated that you filled it with your own ink from the bottle, but the link shows that the pen has cartridges that are pre-filled with ink. How do you refill it?
Happy to hear it was helpful, it was a lot more work to put together than the speeded up videos but I know it’s easier to absorb what’s happening in real-time so thought I’d give it a try.
I know what you mean about comparison, even in the last couple of weeks I was looking at other sketchers’ work and had my own little wobble, wanting to radically change the way I do things. It’s hard not compare but I just remind myself that everyone is at a different stage of development and has a style that they’ve spent a long time honing and improving, all of that comes with practice so I just keep at it. Also, artists and sketchers rarely show you their mistakes and failed artworks, you only get to see the good stuff 🙂
As for the pen, yes you can use cartridges but I got a converter (Pilot CON-40) that you fill with the bottled ink and then that goes into the pen instead of the cartridge. I only did it for the first time for this sketch, it was very straightforward. I think I put a link in the description for that as well, I’ll need to check. Hope that helps! Cheers, Donald.