dip pen

Practicing with a dip pen. The ink wasn't waterproof :(

Friend gifted me a Glass Dip Pen and I've been playing with it.

Practicing with my dip pen, not great paper but still kinda cute.

Practicing with a calligraphy dip pen. Watercolor and burnt umber ink.

My first try at dip pen art. Found that it's cheap and there's less of an environmental burden considering disposable fine liners.

Practicing with my dip pen

Dip pen practice with puppies. I moved the puppies around a little in procreate. I tried coloring one with water color (the pink one) and it smeared. So I colored a few with Procreate.

Practicing dogs and dip pens

Dip pen, indian ink.

This was another tree doodle done with an ink dip pen.

The original doodles were done in sepia ink with dip pen. Then I scanned them, cut some of them out, copied and rearranged them digitally.

Crosshatching and stippling practice with a ink dip pen. Requires immense patience.

These are my drawings for Inktober 2018. I had set these rules for myself; Making a drawing every day with a dip pen within 15 minutes. Some succeeded, others failed completely, but I enjoyed the challenge!

Dip pen and watercolor, freehand floral in warm shades

I love discovering these hidden worlds as they come out of my pens and brushes.

This sketch shall be turned into a print someday. Dip pen and ink in my A5 watercolour sketchbook. The background wash is the result of a palette cleaning.

I love drawing these little guys with my dip pen. I never know what type of character is going to come out of me, because I just put pen to paper and go. They crack me up! The day I did this I filled the whole sheet with 30 of them!

I love drawing flowers with a dip pen! I made a video of me creating this piece and it's on my Instagram (@CreamsicleStudios) if you want to check it out. Fun!

Dip pen with ink wash and watercolor. Drawn from a photo but I crumbled it some.

I can't find my old dip pen nib, but I have found sumi ink and some markers from the 90s that still work (wow, but so fumey).

White bleed proof ink on black paper inked with a Speedball drawing dip pen

Pen and ink with Bombay ink,speedball dip pen, and Tombow brush pen

Pencil drawing from reference finished off with dip pen nib and ink and markers for the big areas done 9/5/22.

Ink and dip pen sketches with watercolor

Done with dip pen and black Talens Indian ink. The dip pen is very old, 1967, I used it at school when I was 10. The next year we started to use fountain pens. Only the nib I used was ofcourse new.