Love the use of the red marker it really pops and I think that colourful buildings need color when sketched. Also I have been sketching for a while now and I never have the bravery to go straight in with pen.
Thank you. Itâs definitely worth trying, I wasnât confident at all that this was going to work but it turned out fine. A quick plan is still useful though, so Iâm very conflicted đ
Love this building Donald, perfect for your style. Most urban sketchers advocate going straight in with a pen, in fact some say that using a pencil first can adversely affect the outcome as you lose the freedom of sketching. Me personally, I wouldnât dare go straight in with a pen. In fact when I did my mini series of Sydney R Jones images, I even used the grid method to get the buildings right in the first place but oddly, this made me even more frustrated if something went wrong. So be liberated and burn that pencilđđ
Thank you. Personally I didnât find it made any difference in terms of drawing freely or the outcome, except (as I mentioned) that I concentrated more on the scene. I donât know anything about the grid method and from what youâre saying it sounds like something that wouldnât work for me at all đ As ever, thereâs no right or wrong to any of this. Although I might not start burning my stationary just yet đ
I actually didnât pencil sketch until I watched your videos! I do tend to jump right in with pen, though I think my sketches are better with a bit of planning. Iâm loving the pops of colour, and I must say that this building is REALLY complicated! Those dots were such a great tip! Youâve done a brilliant job, itâs fabulous! Ps love the engraving on your pen!
You didnât? Thatâs interesting. I really donât know if Iâll use pencil in future or not, depends how the next sketches turn out! If it works for you then stick with it đ It might look complicated but if you break it down itâs just a bunch of rectangles, triangles and twirly bits. It did occur to me that you could just do the dots with a pencil and erase them later, same idea but not permanent. Thank you and glad you like the pen đ
Donald, I enjoyed this one so much that I had a go at doing it myself. It didnât have quite as much intricate detail so was easier to follow. Mine is not nearly as good as yours but itâs not too bad, imo.
Hi Sue, thatâs brilliant, I love when people give these sketches a go. I would say try not to even compare the end result (difficult I know!), for me itâs all about the enjoyment of doing it đ Cheers, Donald.
Thank you Monika. It was a lucky accident for sure, but I sort of missed having it around, if only to squish like a mini stress ball whenever I got stuck on what to draw next.
I've also stopped bothering with pencil pre-sketches. Just going in with ink. Oh, and I use watercolor paper so I can add very wet washes of watercolor paints and mix them a bit on the page. Unpredictable things will happen! đ
You joke, but I did seriously consider this idea, they just would have been flying dangerously close to the building. Some of my other sketches do feature v-shaped birds to hide marks on the page đ
Love the use of the red marker it really pops and I think that colourful buildings need color when sketched.
Also I have been sketching for a while now and I never have the bravery to go straight in with pen.
Thank you. Itâs definitely worth trying, I wasnât confident at all that this was going to work but it turned out fine. A quick plan is still useful though, so Iâm very conflicted đ
I really like this sketch. Fabulous use of one colour in a similar way to you using the yellow. It seems to make it pop.
Thanks Tracey. I suppose it is similar to my usual yellow, the red just jumps out more against the white. Cheers!
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Love this building Donald, perfect for your style. Most urban sketchers advocate going straight in with a pen, in fact some say that using a pencil first can adversely affect the outcome as you lose the freedom of sketching. Me personally, I wouldnât dare go straight in with a pen. In fact when I did my mini series of Sydney R Jones images, I even used the grid method to get the buildings right in the first place but oddly, this made me even more frustrated if something went wrong. So be liberated and burn that pencilđđ
Thank you. Personally I didnât find it made any difference in terms of drawing freely or the outcome, except (as I mentioned) that I concentrated more on the scene. I donât know anything about the grid method and from what youâre saying it sounds like something that wouldnât work for me at all đ As ever, thereâs no right or wrong to any of this. Although I might not start burning my stationary just yet đ
I actually didnât pencil sketch until I watched your videos! I do tend to jump right in with pen, though I think my sketches are better with a bit of planning. Iâm loving the pops of colour, and I must say that this building is REALLY complicated! Those dots were such a great tip! Youâve done a brilliant job, itâs fabulous! Ps love the engraving on your pen!
You didnât? Thatâs interesting. I really donât know if Iâll use pencil in future or not, depends how the next sketches turn out! If it works for you then stick with it đ
It might look complicated but if you break it down itâs just a bunch of rectangles, triangles and twirly bits.
It did occur to me that you could just do the dots with a pencil and erase them later, same idea but not permanent.
Thank you and glad you like the pen đ
Donald, I enjoyed this one so much that I had a go at doing it myself. It didnât have quite as much intricate detail so was easier to follow. Mine is not nearly as good as yours but itâs not too bad, imo.
Hi Sue, thatâs brilliant, I love when people give these sketches a go. I would say try not to even compare the end result (difficult I know!), for me itâs all about the enjoyment of doing it đ Cheers, Donald.
This is a TERRIFIC result!!! Isn't forgetting the putty eraser the happiest of accidents? A kick in the butt... :D
Thank you Monika. It was a lucky accident for sure, but I sort of missed having it around, if only to squish like a mini stress ball whenever I got stuck on what to draw next.
I've also stopped bothering with pencil pre-sketches. Just going in with ink. Oh, and I use watercolor paper so I can add very wet washes of watercolor paints and mix them a bit on the page. Unpredictable things will happen! đ
Thatâs great youâre going straight in with ink, itâs quite a big jump. Watercolour does indeed create some very unpredictable results.
Turn the dots into birds lol
You joke, but I did seriously consider this idea, they just would have been flying dangerously close to the building. Some of my other sketches do feature v-shaped birds to hide marks on the page đ