USING A DIP PEN AND INDIAN INK FREELY
(EXPRESSIVELY) AND CONTROLLED
(FORMALLY)
The dip pen and ink together are very
versatile materials they can be used
expressively to produce line and tone
drawings. This type of drawing is sometimes
referred to as gestural drawing, because it is
quick and a lively type of drawing. It is done
with speed, and tends to capture movement
and rhythm in a drawing as well as form. It
can also be used as a very controlled formal
material using line and tone to produce very
accurate drawings that render form - these
two styles can be combined in the one
drawing. In the examples you can see the
difference between the two types of
drawing. I have drawn some details of the
body. In the drawings of the hands the first
example shows the gestural approach to the
drawing. It has the appearance that it has
been drawn very quickly trying to capture
the structure of the hand. The second
drawing of the hand has a more controlled
response to the observation. The
observation is an analytical breakdown of the
hand, using a series of shapes to express an
understanding of the hand. The third
drawing is a mixture of the two styles –
formal to provide a basic structure to the
drawing, overlaid by some gestural drawing
to help the sense of movement and rhythm.
1/is a gestural drawing
2/is a very formal drawing expressing the
idea of form. The crosshatch, which is a
series of lines that run parallel to each other
and can be over laid to build up the density
of tone, has been used on this illustration to
express the illusion of the form of the head.
The tone has been put where you would
normally find the tone situated on the head.
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