Changing line weights and colours to create depth and focus. Is this something you do?

Here is a quick demo (about 5min to draw) that I did during a livestream last week inside of my SketchingNow Edges course. It was lots of fun to sketch with feedback from the group as I worked. It’s of a scene in Newcastle-upon-Tyne that I sketched on location 10 years ago and includes The Grey Monument – honouring Charles Grey, the second Earl Grey, who was Prime Minister of Britain from 1830-1834.

It used three different pens and three different inks:

Green Sailor Fude 55 degree nib with Black,
White Sailor Fude 40 nib with Urban Grey ink and
Twsbi Eco Fine in Light Grey.

(NB: there were two typos in the notes on the sketch)

All ink is De Atramentis Document Ink… and yes! the light grey ink is a new colour in their range. It’s a great colour and highly recommended especially if you find their Urban Grey too dark. Mine came from Larry Post here in Sydney.

And then yesterday, I did this sketch with 7 different coloured inks to show the group in this week’s livestream. If you are part of Edges it’s Livestream 7 as part of Lesson 4.

A bit crazy!

 

This is a photo of the pens I used. I definitely had to concentrate hard on which pen I was picking up! And yes, I didn’t need to use all of these pens in the one sketch but it was really fun to do so.

And here is the final sketch with a few quick washes of watercolour over the top.

---