Sinhagadh 4

[Balaji]

This is a 14 cms x 9 cms quick pen and ink sketch in a Tara Notes pocket Flukebook. It was done mainly with a flex nib fountain pen, and I used a Brustro Fude hard tip brush pen for the dark blacks

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[Terri]

This is a lovely sketch! There are a lot of black patches within - so I'm guessing this hard tip brush pen is what moves the ink around in instances like this?

I know very, very little about working with pens!

 

[Balaji]

This is a lovely sketch! There are a lot of black patches within - so I'm guessing this hard tip brush pen is what moves the ink around in instances like this?

I know very, very little about working with pens!

Thank you Terri.

One of the ways to do this sketch would be to use a number of pens delivering lines of varying line thickness, and darkness. But I have used a single pen with a flexible nib (flex nib) to vary the thickness of my lines. And, as you rightly guessed, I used the hard tip brush pen to draw the very dark black patches. I could have used a conventional brush pen (soft tip) for that, but I only had the hard tip brush pen. I could also have done it with an ordinary brush dipped in ink. And of course it could have been done by close cross hatching with even the flex pen that I used for the rest of the sketch. But I wanted the effect that you see in this sketch.

 

[Terri]

Thank you Terri.

One of the ways to do this sketch would be to use a number of pens delivering lines of varying line thickness, and darkness. But I have used a single pen with a flexible nib (flex nib) to vary the thickness of my lines. And, as you rightly guessed, I used the hard tip brush pen to draw the very dark black patches. I could have used a conventional brush pen (soft tip) for that, but I only had the hard tip brush pen. I could also have done it with an ordinary brush dipped in ink. And of course it could have been done by close cross hatching with even the flex pen that I used for the rest of the sketch. But I wanted the effect that you see in this sketch.

Thank you for the expanded answer! As mentioned I know next to nothing about this medium, so this helps.

I learn a lot from this site!

 

[Donna T]

I appreciate your explanation too, Balaji. Wonderful sketch!