I’ve been on a minimal-kit kick recently and a part of that includes no/minimal shade. Most of those sketches are on a clean paper floor which supplies me clean shapes of gray once I mix in graphite.
The 2 sketches under are close to one in every of my favourite locations on the California Coast, Level Lobos State Park. Just a little little bit of pen and a few graphite for mark-making (largely an enormous, fats Lyra pencil) and loads of mixing. I exploit my fingers to mix however if you need much less mess, you possibly can carry a bit of chamois. I discover mixing sticks too fussy: they don’t let me get at large areas rapidly.
This Adobe home, tucked away behind San Pedro Sq., is the oldest standing house in San Jose, a reminder of the tiny Pueblo this metropolis as soon as was. Moreover graphite, you will notice hints of yellow and blue coloured pencil. These white spotlight marks are made by drawing into the graphite with an eraser. Lastly, I’ve discovered a use for my eraser, as a drawing instrument!
This sketch makes use of a brushpen and a pencil. Since my youngsters have been portray pottery, I used the underglaze of their palettes so as to add a contact of shade. I don’t count on the underglaze to carry. It’s in all probability dried, cracked, and fallen off the web page by now.
This kinda quiet piece is the altering view between Seattle and San Jose as I flew house. Mountains with bits of snow gave strategy to fields, then a large lake (Lake Tahoe, I believe), after which a extra city panorama. Graphite pencil and eraser are my two drawing implements right here.
Black and white sketching isn’t just fast, it additionally has a distinctly completely different voice from full-color sketching, and I like having the ability to have completely different voices and moods that I can name up in my sketching to greatest seize the texture of a scene.
