The Complete Book of Drawing Techniques

158 Part Three – PENS, INK, BRUSHES and PAPER FOUNTAIN PENS These are more personalised instruments than the pens previously men ...

Pens 159 PEN PROJECT: KITCHEN PLAN This is just the kind of project that, traditionally, the rotring pen has been used for. Ther ...

160 DIP PENS Dip pens are so called because unlike the other pens mentioned these pens do not supply their own flow of ink - the ...

Pens, Brushes 161 BRUSHES To put washes down on the paper when working with ink usually means the use of brushes. On the other h ...

162 carried around with you to record your observations, and to gather information. They come in various sizes from A5 to A1, an ...

Step 1 Step 2 Step 4 Step 3 Paper 163 ...

164 CORRECTION Before correction fluids and pen became widely available on the market it was very difficult to correct a pen, br ...

Ink, mark making 165 EXPERIMENTAL MARK MAKING WITH INK Try to approach this without any preconceived ideas about what the marks ...

166 2/ Shaped piece of stick I chose a planed piece of wood about an inch thick. At the end of the piece of wood I’ve cut three ...

Ink, mark making 167 3/ Piece of dowling or a circular end of a piece of wood Simply dip the end of the piece of wood in the ink ...

5/ Cotton bud The cotton bud is a very useful tool for drawing with ink. Strip the cotton wool off one end of the bud and, using ...

Ink, mark making 169 6/ Toothbrush Take an old toothbrush and dip that into the ink. Aim it at the paper and then pull your thum ...

170 Part Three – PENS, INK, BRUSHES and PAPER 7/ String Take a frayed piece of string. Ensure that the frayed area is quite toug ...

Ink, mark making 171 DRAWING WITH STRING This drawing is based in memory and imagination, two elements that are very useful reso ...

THE ORIENTAL BRUSH AND ROUND HEAD BRUSH Oriental brushes are traditional brushes used in Chinese and Japanese drawing and callig ...

the same tension in the calligraphic mark. Although a history of mark making is evident in this brush work, the drawings themsel ...

For the examples of splatter technique shown on the opposite page, I used round head brushes; Oriental brushes are also suitable ...

Oriental brushes 175 Examples of splatter technique. ...

176 Part Three – PENS, INK, BRUSHES and PAPER Drawings made with a round- headed brush. ...

Flat head brushes 177 FLAT HEAD BRUSHES The flat head brush has been fundamentally designed to lay down washes but at the same t ...