How Do I Make A Ink And Pen Drawing?…
Whenever your start something new you are probably a bit apprehensive, therefore, what I have here, is a few pointers to help you. Firstly, go out and buy yourself a cheap, fibre tipped pen (preferably a black one). This should be ample for your needs.
They are so easy to carry around and will achieve many different strokes. Depending, of course, on how much pressure you apply to the nib itself. As for subject choice to draw, probably something small to start with. Leaves are good for the detail, eggs, pebbles or stones from the garden or beach, even shells. Anything like this would do nicely.
What about form, texture and cross hatching. If you lay a few marks down, dots, small dashes and basic lines, you have a bit of form. Marks close together will make the sketch look a bit darker, but for real darkness cross hatching is the answer. Remember the effects are influenced by the pressure on the pen.
Cross hatching can intensify your work. What actually happens, is you actually draw one set of lines and continue by drawing more lines the opposite way across it, making it much, much darker. Other effective results can be made by giving a feeling of roundness. If you have a crevice on any curve and you make it dark, but then lighter, as you come away from the curve.
How about adding a wash to your work! Pen and Wash, you will find, works well on quite a few types of paper. Pens are okay on smooth or shiny surface paper. Washes look good on heavier grained papers.
We must bear in mind that light bounces off white paper. Now if you do not want to block out the lines of your paper, be sure to only do a thin wash. Preferably using small paint blocks, diluted with water.
Using block paints has many advantages, as with the palettes available today, they fit nicely into the slots, you can mix paint too and have it accessible to work quickly. The paints can be easily replaced too. Should you be using pens that are soluble in water, they may actually run into your wash, but you may find that you like it!
So it is not disastrous if one colour runs in to another. We have all been there intentionally and by mistake, but often it turns out to be an enhancement. If you do have a problem it will not be rectified by more layers of paint. This paint being translucent, problems may not be easy to fix.
If you want to try, please wait until your work is dry, then, with a light touch, use one of the grainy type of ink rubbers. If you rub hard, it is likely to spoil your surface and completely mess up the ink and paint. So do be careful and do leave some contrast by not covering all the white paper.
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