brush pens

Today’s urban sketching effort. I tried to capture light coming through windows at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. Posca markers, brush pens and water soluble pencil on brown A4

I modified the challenge a wee bit. I didn't use the same paper for the various drawings since I was using (top row, left to right) hard graphite pencils (3H to HB), watercolor pencils, (bottom row, left to right) brush pens and ballpoint pen. These media work best on very different paper textures and moisture absorbing qualities. The second picture shows the object of my study --- and the apparatus I use to hold botanical subjects. "Third hand" tools are very useful and cheap. This one was under $10 and serves my purposes well. Just FYI. (Each drawing/painting was scanned and composited in Photoshop.)

Due to COVID-restrictions, Edinburgh urban sketchers have been sketching virtually in Catalonia using Google street view. Here’s one of my contributions. It’s somewhere in Amposta ... unfortunately, didn’t take note of the actual street :O Pencil, brush pens and posca on coloured A4.

Inktober 2020, Day 25: "Buddy". I thought what better match for the prompt than Stanley Stegosaurus, which my parents got to me when we moved to the US, when I was six. Stanley was a good buddy to me, when I didn’t understand at first the weird language spoken by those American kids. It has also been a good buddy to me during this weird pandemic time, when my IRL social life seems to be limited to maybe meeting one person once a month. Brush pens and posca on coloured A4.

Mixed media (pencil, markers, brush pens, collage) on A3. This is based on some old doodles from around 2003 (I think). I glued the old thing on a bigger paper and completed it this Christmas/New Year 2019.

Spooky doodle outlined with pink Fabre-Castell Pitt pen and painted in with Koi brush pens, using brush and water to dilute right on the page.

Tombow brush pens and ball point pen.

Brush pens and posca markers on coloured A4

Inktober, day 2: "Wisp". Brush pens and posca markers on coloured A4. This is inspired by the wisps in Ultima rpgs that I used to play as a wee bairn. That’s where I learned the word "wisp". In fact, it’s pretty much the only association I still have. ;)

Inktober, day 1: "Fish". Brush pens and posca markers on coloured A4

bird in bush

forest of confusion

A life drawing I did yesterday via zoom with Drawing Life in Glasgow. The pose and theme were modelled after Egon Schiele. Charcoal, brush pens and conte on brown A3.

VARIOUS PATTERNS 1 5 PICS

Brush pens and Posca markers on coloured A4.

Zentangle koi with Prismacolor pencils and Tombow brush pens

Watercolor brush pens experiment with white gouache for the moon and stars

A painting of the flowers drinking the morning sunlight :) :)

Brush pens and posca on coloured A4

Just doodling on Kraft paper with brush pens and ink

Traditional drawing of Eris (Sinbad villain) - brush pens on regular paper

Colorful drawing of Beast Boy, Teen Titans character. Reference: pinterest. Techniques: brush pens on regular paper

Trying out watercolor brush pens …not sure that it’s what I was going for, but gave it a go

Blue Bird, using brush pens....:)

Got the idea from a vacation. I did this with aqua brush pens. Very easy to use.

What's inside my bag? well i bring point n shoot analog camera, a DSLR, pencil box (with pen, pencil and eraser inside), watercolor travel pack from Daler Rowney, mini sketchbook (i use Muji), lipstick, brush pens (Pentel). And no, i'm not bring botanical plant inside my bag, its just something i see and i directly draw it, haha.

From left to right (countries and their names): Belarus- Alena Sokolova Czech Republic-Iveta Cerna Hungary-Maida Valko Ukraine- Olena Karpenko Poland- Albinka Debski Markers and Pens -Sailor Shikiori Dual Tip Brush Pens -Micron Pens -Copic Markers -Posca Markers -Staedtler Double Ended Permanent Pens -Faber Castell Pitt Artist Pens -Gelly Roll Pens -Uni Ball Signo Pens -Marvy Artist Double Sided Permanent Pens -Mark’s Tous Le Jours Ballpoint Pen etc… Colored Pencils -Caran d’ache luminance -Holbein Artist colored pencils -Tombow Irojiten -Derwent Lightfast -Faber Castell Polychromos -Caran d’ache Pablo Etc… Additionally I used Supracolor watercolor pencils, Staedtler Mars Lumograph EE Pencil, and various types of Zebra Pens.

Colorful drawing of a new character from the videogame Genshin Impact. Reference: official splash art Techniques: brush pens on regular paper

Colorful Painting of Radha Krishna

Queen weaver ant .. using water brush pens.