Sketching a sketcher

[avram]

Hey, here’s a sketch from Friday night. I managed to grab one of the comfy seats at the Starbucks on Broadway and 17th, and this guy here, right across from me, was also sketching people, using a red earth pencil on drawing paper. So I sketched him.

I’m using a new pen here, a Lamy Safari fountain pen, loaded up with Noodler’s black bulletproof ink. (It’s water-soluble in the pen, but when it hits the cellulose in paper it undergoes a chemical change and becomes waterproof. Pretty cool.) Nice thing about the fountain pen is I can flip it upside-down and draw with the back of the nib to get a thinner line. That’s what I did here for the background.

After a few weeks of using this pocket-sized sketchbook, I’m jonesin’ for a 9x12 book again, and some big, sloppy brushpens.