Sketches and pen ruminations

[avram]

Not a whole lot of sketching the past couple of weeks. Regular work’ll do that.

Earlier this morning I was flipping through my sketchbooks, and I noticed that my fineline, heavily crosshatched style style had turned pretty kick-ass. Maybe I should give up on these brush-pens (though I am finally getting the hang of the thin Japanese one). Chris Baldwin just uses a Pilot Precise (V5, I think) — the same pen I carry around for writing — and he’s another heavy crosshatch guy. I just picked up a Pilot P-500 the other day; that’s the next generation Precise. I think it’s waterproof. Doesn’t fit into the pen loop on my PDA belt case.

Comments

[scottbateman.livejournal.com]

I generally use a Pilot V-Ball Extra Fine for cross-hatching.

[gaylord500.livejournal.com]

Call me a prole; the color one's pretty and eye-catching.

Are these based off of folks you've seen, or are they mostly imagination?

[avram]

The woman at the bottom (with the poofy hair) and the guy with the skimpy mustache are sorta-kinda people I saw in coffee shops, reconstructed from short-term memory after they went past. The lizard woman is based on a billboard on the corner of Broadway and 17th St. The others are purely imaginary.