Tag: Pentel brush pen

Urban Art Bag

art bag

My urban sketching bag, a Trespass Mini Belt Bag, just right for an A6 landscape Seawhite travel journal, a small box of Winsor & Newton watercolours and Pentel Aquash water brush, a Pentel brush pen and Lamy fountain pens filled with black De Atramentis ink, except the yellow Lamy Safari which has a regular Lamy ink cartridge.

Sadly the pen that didn’t make it into the final selection was my Lamy Vista with an extra fine nib. After several refills and flushings out the ink still isn’t flowing into the nib.

Gatepost

gatepost

To give the gatepost a black and white treatment, I marked the shapes of the shadows – the spot blacks as they’re called in comics – with an ‘x’, then filled in with a Pentel Brush Pen. Drawn using a Lamy nexx with a bold nib.

Duck-feeders

man on park bench

I stuck to black and white at Newmillerdam this morning – a B-nib Lamy filled with De Atramentis ink and a Pentel brush pen.

When people are wearing bright yellow or blue, it’s tempting to add that as a flat wash but I’m experimenting with black and white for my werewolf comic, to create an inky gothic atmosphere.

Also as an experiment, I scanned these at 600 dpi (dots per inch) in ‘1 bit B/W’, reducing everything to either pure black or white.