Tag: Fude nib
Cafe Urban Sketch and Portrait Sketching using colour contrast (Day 133)
Day 133 of sketching people inĀ ink and watercolour. Urban sketch at a local cafe of a man with a pastel de nata, and a portrait sketch of Koosje Koene using a limited colour palette inspired by Ludivine Alligier’s tutorial about creating contrast with colour and text. Both sketches with some poetic reportage.
Speed Sketching Portraits with Drawing is Free and Drawing Earthsworld Challenge (Day 132)
Day 132 of sketching people. Drawing is Free speed sketching event on zoom. Sketched a series of portraits, where every pose is the length of a music track. Continuing with a Sailor Fude pen to vary the line weight. Also did the Drawing Earthsworld daily portrait hosted on Facebook.
Speed Sketching Portraits with Drawing is Free (Day 130)
Day 130 of sketching people. Drawing is Free speed sketching event on zoom. Sketched a series of portraits, where every pose is the length of a music track. Experimenting with a Sailor Fude pen to vary the line weight.
Urban Sketching People in Tavira with poetic observations and Portrait Practice (Day 129)
Day 129 of sketching people in ink and watercolour. Today I sketched a couple of people in Tavira and added some poetic reportage to these otherwise uneventful scenes. I also did a bit of portrait practice back at home.
Giving my OG Urban Sketching Favourite Lamy a Fude Nib
Using the first pen I bought when I started sketching – the Yellow Lamy Safari fountain pen – to experiment turning the F nib into a Fude nib.




