Digital Alan

Line And Color - Posted an interesting article about where I got inspired to start drawing.

I really fell in love with the style of Russell Stulter and his use of Fountain Pens and adding a color wash to the images to really bring them to life. (see below)
As one of the comments states just sketching with watercolor you don’t have the control and precision to accomplish what Russell accomplishes when he uses both Pen and a waterbrush to give a wash of watercolor over the completed drawing. I feel this gives so much more depth and feeling to the drawing.

Make sure to check out Russell’s Site to see his sketchbook. And check out the Forum where you can join in share your drawing and sketches and talk about art in general, Learn a few new techniques or talk about new tools to use.

Below is a sample of what you can find in the sketchbooks of Russell Stulter.

Tags: Watercolor, Sketch, Sketching, Drawing, Ink, Fountain, Pen, FountainPen

Sketch #1: A Pipe -

Even though I think they might have ment a plumbing pipe - This will fill the subject. I used a Pilot Precise V5 Pen with Black Ink to do the outline and I then used the PrismaColor to add the color to this image. I have had the colors for about 1 year and have not used them much - I mostly have done just blackand white. By creating sketches with the wetbrush - I noticed the color just added so much to the image.

I just found Wet Canvas and this week I partook of the Scavanger Hunt #12.

Here are the Sketches I completed.

These are my Entries to the WetCanvas Drawing Scavenger Hunt

1) Drawing of A Small Bag
2) Drawing of Your Hand Drawing
3) Drawing of a Map (Well I use Google for my Maps)

4) Drawing of Something Olde Over 100 Years
5) Drawing of Dying Plant or Flower
6) Drawing of Something Floating on Water

7) Drawing of a feather (Feathers on Darts)
8) Drawing of Something Blowing in the wind
9) Drawing of Something Burning AND
Drawing of Something Starting with C (Cigar)

10) Drawing of Crumpled up Paper
11) Drawing of Someone Sitting
12) Drawing of Something with Strong Shadows

13) Drawing of Symentry Cylindrical (Pepsi Can)
14) Drawing of a Wheel (Mouse Wheel)

All Drawing were done with a .5mm mechnical pencil and 3.5mm Clutch Pencil from Levengers except for the Pepsi Can - That was “Sketched” with a new Kon-I-Nor Watercolor Set and a Water Pen and a Koi Water Sketch Kit.