My second entry for my drawing and painting assignment is about our ink lessons from the previous class.
To be honest I never particularly liked pen and nib inking. This was because I didn't have a teacher who took the time to explain out how this tool worked and the many different things an artist could do with it. Anything I made with ink I was either ashamed of or frustrated with and tended to use microns in my 'ink' work (as seen in my animal drawings below). Though, even then, ink confounded me terribly and I still wasn't fond about it.
After this lesson I felt far more confident with a pen and nib than I had before. Testing out the different nibs felt freeing instead of stressful and I found I enjoyed the bolder sketchier look of the larger nibs as much as the very delicate smaller nibs used for the finer details in the sketches above. There's something wonderfully charismatic and confident about these marks, along with the way they can vary in line density and line boldness.
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