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(Pelikan 400NN - F ..... Kwz Warsaw Dreamings)

I did not intended to post this page of my Sketchbook.

I felt the need to just practice profile heads as I think I have to improve in this area.

Often when I draw figure drawings I'm not really happy with the faces.

Ok they are quite small (usually draw on A4 or A5, seldomly on A3) so in a figure drawing the head is tiny and if the feature lines are only slightly off they already look odd.

Nevertheless I'm way less good as I would like to be, so there is only one way to improve...... practice, practice, practice.

So I took a skechbook (A4) and started to sketch random profile heads from the net.
No underdrawing, just with a fountainpen straight with ink (normally I do a pencil underdrawing, as ink is not forgiving).

I sketched each head really loose, rough and took only a couple of minutes for each head.

I finished each head with a quick wash with a waterbrush to give it more volume and to round it up.

Started only with the intention of practice, but the whole page looked at the end quite nice for me.

So I changed my mind and post it, just to show also how i practice and what my thoughts are.

Here I used a quite new ink for me.

It's Warsaw Dreamings from KWZ a small Polish company.

It is a really really dark blue and without a wash it is darker than many black inks, but in fact its a dark dark blue-black.

I´ve used the ink in a Pelikan 400NN Brown Tortoise with a F nib.

This pen is from the 1950s, an awesome writer with a semi-flex nib.

The ink is really nice to draw with, it is high saturated and has quite some water resistance, but still it plays nice with the water.

I love such inks for drawing, when washed it maintain the line but also gives a nice wash.

This ink feels quite thick, and at least in this pen it gives me sometimes a bit hard starts (especially after being uncapped and unused for a bit longer than a couple of seconds).

But once started it writes with confidence.

Nevertheless the ink is very well behaving, it does not smear once dried (often a problem with highly saturated inks) and the line quality is excellent, no feathering/bleed through.

The dry time is not the fastest but ok.

Even that dark it can shade in the right pen and right paper.

Some review claim it has a black sheen, but so far I did not saw it yet (have to do more writing with it).

How does your pracice look like?

Do you do similar things, just pick some topic and practice it again and again?

Or do you do it completely different?

Description

(Pelikan 400NN - F ..... Kwz Warsaw Dreamings)

I did not intended to post this page of my Sketchbook.

I felt the need to just practice profile heads as I think I have to improve in this area.

Often when I draw figure drawings I'm not really happy with the faces.

Ok they are quite small (usually draw on A4 or A5, seldomly on A3) so in a figure drawing the head is tiny and if the feature lines are only slightly off they already look odd.

Nevertheless I'm way less good as I would like to be, so there is only one way to improve...... practice, practice, practice.

So I took a skechbook (A4) and started to sketch random profile heads from the net.
No underdrawing, just with a fountainpen straight with ink (normally I do a pencil underdrawing, as ink is not forgiving).

I sketched each head really loose, rough and took only a couple of minutes for each head.

I finished each head with a quick wash with a waterbrush to give it more volume and to round it up.

Started only with the intention of practice, but the whole page looked at the end quite nice for me.

So I changed my mind and post it, just to show also how i practice and what my thoughts are.

Here I used a quite new ink for me.

It's Warsaw Dreamings from KWZ a small Polish company.

It is a really really dark blue and without a wash it is darker than many black inks, but in fact its a dark dark blue-black.

I´ve used the ink in a Pelikan 400NN Brown Tortoise with a F nib.

This pen is from the 1950s, an awesome writer with a semi-flex nib.

The ink is really nice to draw with, it is high saturated and has quite some water resistance, but still it plays nice with the water.

I love such inks for drawing, when washed it maintain the line but also gives a nice wash.

This ink feels quite thick, and at least in this pen it gives me sometimes a bit hard starts (especially after being uncapped and unused for a bit longer than a couple of seconds).

But once started it writes with confidence.

Nevertheless the ink is very well behaving, it does not smear once dried (often a problem with highly saturated inks) and the line quality is excellent, no feathering/bleed through.

The dry time is not the fastest but ok.

Even that dark it can shade in the right pen and right paper.

Some review claim it has a black sheen, but so far I did not saw it yet (have to do more writing with it).

How does your pracice look like?

Do you do similar things, just pick some topic and practice it again and again?

Or do you do it completely different?