
Handout, Presentation, Resources, and Exercises
Course Handout and Presentations:
Handout in PDF format: FINER_Point_Pen_Ink
Resources:
Link to Cheryl’s page of Hyperlapse Demos
Creative Commons Videos (Shareable Content with Creative Content Licensure)
Getting Started: Pens, Ink, Drawing Techniques
—-Attribution (Creative Commons Video): Sandy Allnock’s Artventure
HOW To Draw TEXTURES | Pen And Ink Tutorial
—-Attribution (Creative Commons Video): Fana Smetana Art
Exercises (4 post-class tasks to try on your own!):
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- Exercise 1:Brush Control
Purchase a lined notebook and practice making lines and “0s” (circular shapes with a brush). Put the lines close together and far apart.
Exercise 2:Value Patterns in Black
Set up a still life and light it from one side. Do a contour line drawing with a Uniball pen. Then with a brush and India ink indicate value patterns in solid black.
Exercise 3:
Quick Sketches
Set up a still life and light it from one side. Mix a light and dark wash in watercolor or dilute India ink. Draw your still life in pen (no shading) and apply light and dark washes to the paper creating light and dark value patterns.
Exercise 4:
Suburban Sketching
Get a sketchbook, set up mobile gear including a pen, small set of watercolors, a pen, and get out there.
- Exercise 1:Brush Control
Suggested Books:
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- Claudia Nice: Creating Textured Landscapes with Pen, Ink and Watercolor
- Alphonso Dunn: Pen & Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide (And there is a companion workbook.)
- Arthur L. Guptill: Rendering in Pen and Ink… (super long title)