#fountain pen
in my previous post, I showed you a sketch I did of the famous Mampei Hotel located in Karuizawa. While staying there we went with Kana on long walks to explore the popular villa town sprawling around, making a lot of photos.
I wanted to make a sketch based on one place that I liked in particular - an old-style shop (as usual).
I also did this sketch as an opportunity to test again the IndiGraph fountain pen that is meant to be used with waterproof India inks. This time I was able to use the new EF nib that I got for testing and I have to say that I like the pen a lot more now. The line is thin and stable enough so I can also sketch with the pen on non-textured paper (like hot pressed watercolor paper or in my sketchbooks) and has lines similar to a 0.3mm fineliner. I also have the F nib to play with later.
You can see how this picture was made in a full-length video HERE.
Tools:
- Mijello 26 colors watercolors set
- WaterFord white 300g HOT pressed watercolor paper
- IndiGraph pen (F nib)
- Carbon ink (waterproof)
- Pencils etc.
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Upon entering the crypt Thudo felt the presence of something great and terrible all around him. The chill of death and salty air stung at his still-fresh wounds, and a voice strong enough to make his strong body tremble emitted from the depths of the mountain cave. Utterly defeated, the ghosts of his shipmates weighing down upon him, he sank to his knees and began to cry in supplication.
Happy Birthday, Theodore <3 10/25/2018
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Wonder Pens in Toronto, a stationery institution (comes with 2 shop cats, a skylight, and plants)
When you’re picking out a fountain pen they let you test them out to feel the ~connection~ - move over Ollivander
Bahubali would like to have a word. I had fun drawing the hair, it’s always fabulous. Fountain pen on vellum. These recent sketches are on paper 11” high. Someone enquired in the tags on my last one.
A grumpy, possibly murderous Captain Flint. photo a bit yellow, the sun went down. A couple of hours. My preppy fountain pen on vellum again. Really enjoying this drawing combo.
A Deet sketch to begin the year… fountain pen on vellum.
On The Buses (And Trains)
On The Buses (And Trains)
I don’t travel as much as I used to on buses and trains, especially night buses. I used to work on them a lot travelling back from visits to London but I rarely go into town anymore. I can draw on a bus and adjust my strokes to the movements. A childhood of writing and doodling on moving boats, I guess? The lifting of restrictions meant I started travelling on them again, and a few times on night…
Portraits At The Pub 20: Jules
Portraits At The Pub 20: Jules
For my 20th Portraits at the Pub we had another PATP model that like Rick we had just before the first Lockdown – Jules! As before I started with ink drawings in the A4 sketchbook, including a post that was the mirror of last time but drawn far better! I was using the Evergood french flex vintage pen, a recent purchase and refurb – only £17 on eBay, fixed by myself with a new ink sac fitted. It’s…
Abstract Advent Week 3 + 2
Abstract Advent Week 3 + 2
Final week (plus 2 days) of Abstract Advent challenge, which I completed on Christmas Eve – it’s been a blast, writing this on Christmas Day – hope you all are having a good one however your celebrate it (or not). First up was Day 15, with a shape like a hole (rather than a head) which I did an ink painting and a wax resist painting on opposite pages as a two page piece. Sadly this got nuked by…
Abstract Advent: Week 1
Abstract Advent: Week 1
After completing Inktober for the last two years I took a well-deserved rest this year, but am taking part in the slightly shorter ‘Abstract Advent’ as run by @artpedagogy, like an abstract advent calendar but on Instagram – so it runs from the 1st of December to the 24th. Unlike the word prompts of Inktober, he provides a shape for you to work from or adapt, and you can work in any media…
Portraits at the Pub - Rick
Portraits at the Pub – Rick
Those with long memories might remember Rick – he’s posed for us at Portraits at the Pub before, only a month or so before the first lockdown in Feb 2020 – it was one of the last portrait sessions. And here he is again, this time very different from last time’s welding clothes to a flower in his hair and an amazing wool clothes that I really didn’t do justice to – all purple and red. Loved…
Portraits At The Pub: Jackie
Portraits At The Pub: Jackie
Sorry for the delay posting these (these are from nearly a month ago), been in a seasonal slump – always get seasonal depression when it gets dark and the clocks go back. I am working, currently on Abstract Advent for the whole of December to kick my working back in gear…and also attending Portraits at the Pub every two weeks. The last but one was with a woman I think was called Jackie or…
Slick Rick remix artwork and video
Slick Rick remix artwork and video
Not often my fountain pen drawing and watercolour artwork gets featured in a music video and cover for a remix of Slick Rick….think of me as the funky Bob Ross! This work was a collaboration with Rhythm Scholar illustrating his wonderful mashup remix of Children’s Story. This was delving more into my design/illustration past yet working more in a loose funky 70’s illustration mood but it was a…
Mirkwood: Richmond Park’s Spooky Forest
Mirkwood: Richmond Park’s Spooky Forest
The Dead Tree Series isn’t dead…it’s been only sleeping then over the Spring and Summer it reawakened when I found the spooky woods in Richmond Park. I thought I’d post these before Halloween (don’t worry it wont be a 16,000 word tome like the first Jurassic Jaunt..ouch!)! These gnarled twisty old trees are sandwiched between the eastern side of Isabella Plantation and the Coronation…
Portraits At The Pub 14 - Joe
Portraits At The Pub 14 – Joe
The second of the restarted Portraits At The Pub at The Lamb, and this time it was the golden locks of Joe we were drawing. I took Martin’s usual spot since he and several of the usuals were away, and didn’t notice that I got profiles all night! I found it hard to get into this one – the classic ‘resemblance’ hole was hard to work my way out, even when I switched mediums. I just couldn’t get him…
Tales From The Riverbank 2 - Two Ways of Seeing a River
Tales From The Riverbank 2 – Two Ways of Seeing a River
Seascapes haven’t been the only marine subject this summer – as I said in the first of the riverbank posts, I have gone back to drawing the River Thames more since the Big Burn Out after Lockdown 1 where it was the only nearest subject I had, and it became stifling as much as I tried to vary it. Boats have been a frequent subject in my work included messing around with boats and Kingston Regatta,…
hubris
09.19.17 // 12:03 PM
Finally done with exams for the month but all the quizzes and papers are starting to pile up. Can third year med just please chill???
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09.12.17 // 8:56 AM
It’s going to be a long day, so I started the morning with a little note to self. Wishing everyone a productive Tuesday!
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09.08.17 // 12:59 PM
Crunch time! It’s the weekend before exams and there’s still so much to cover, but I’m buzzing with energy so it’s time to get productive!
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09.04.17 // 7:29 PM
We’ve had so many holidays these past few Mondays that I’m not used to Monday classes anymore. Today’s not particularly good either, but that’s the thing about med school—you gotta suck it up and keep moving forward because there are bigger problems for the next day.
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08.02.17 // 6:43 PM
A month into third year of med school and I’m just so drained. I’m not sure where I’m gonna get the energy to power through the rest of the year.
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05.09.17 // 2:42 PM
Sometimes I sketch and journal to take a break from studying med.
Summer’s almost here! Just one more day of exams then I can focus more on art and triathlon. I hope everyone’s doing great! ✨
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I’ve always wanted to study abroad, but recently I feel as though it has become clear where I would want to study. I don’t particularly enjoy indulging my emotions, they’re a key part of being but I find my reaction to them ought to be controlled. However, recently I’ve read Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson and it has really made me think. While I have no idea what it is like to be a black body in modern britain, there’s a particular passage that strikes me daily
“She’s beautiful. Want my advice? Find a place you can call home. This isn’t it. It’s hard to just be in this place. So much goes on you don’t even realize until you realize, you know what I mean? Go somewhere you can be free. Where you don’t have to think too rough about what you do before you do it. Find a place you can call home.”(113)
I don’t know what it is like to be a black body in modern Britain, I do know what it’s like to be an Asian man in Western Europe. The sentiment clings to my skin and I cannot seem to scrub it off. My feelings about my own existence, how it’s viewed by others, never has it been said with such candor and clarity. I know the form of limited freedom I posses, in many ways more than others share but in other ways I don’t believe I’ve ever had the freedom to exist. What must it be like to not be a permanent ‘Other’? To find oneself submerged within a crowd?
I’ve always vaguely fancied studying in South Korea, I settled for something in Europe, something closer. The longer passes since I finished Open Water the more I find myself drawn to Asia, to the idea of being free in a country. Being truly free. I’m drawing up a plan to turn a fancy into my concrete reality. It’s utterly terrifying to my bone, but I think that’s the nature of change. It’s confirming the fact that I need this, to be so utterly scared of acting means that I am terrified to the bone of not acting.
I’ve acquired an ipad and it has been a delight to use. Mind you, the experience is alright. The pencil is slightly uncomfortable for long durations but I don’t mind it too much. The writing experience is fine, incomparible to fountain pens but I hadn’t expected such a thing. The most important thing is that it is saving me tonnes of paper, it’s a device of convenience as I had expected it to be. I still write my notes on paper, the experience simply cannot be replaced, but any papers I know I will be throwing out by the end of the semester are done digitally.
I wonder why we crave infinity so badly. All of our lives are centered so often around legacy, around meaning and profoundness not because they are important to us now, but because they are infinite concepts that we concern our time with. As I glance out my window in my studio, watching time pass by I find there to be such beauty in the temporary nature of existence. The ideas behind principles, morals and ideals I don’t have any particular issue with. Life void of meaning is too uncomfortable for us to live. Rather, it is the idea that once we establish something it must last that makes me revolt. Decay may not be beautiful, but often it’s necessary. Destroying is another act of creation, if only because it makes room for a new creation.
Tattered Cover bookstore, Denver.
First calligraphy commission to become a personalized tattoo in collaboration with a local artist, this design has been chosen among several options and sketches to finalize a unique version of the latin quote “Carpe Diem.”
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2021, 13 December. Virtuous and beautiful. A real noble and gracious special someone that I’ve liked since I was young. I’ve had that crush for many years, and pursued really hard before I was able to win that person over.
For the @starofsolitude-huachengevent
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2021, 12 December. I won’t forget. I will never forget you.
For the @starofsolitude-huachengevent
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