If you follow me on Twitter (and you should, by the way) or have followed this site for any length of time you’ll know I’m a big big fan of Andrea Joseph. Her art is beautiful and fun and warm and wonderful. On Saturday Andrea, along with a couple of other very talented sketchers, was […]
This is an absolutely fantastic dark blue ink. It has some lovely shading, dries fairly quickly and looks beautiful. It’s my favourite dark blue. Here I am starting to doodle the Inkling. The camera ran out of memory and I didn’t notice so it comes to a sudden halt.
The Zebra Drafix is a mechanical pencil available in 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and 0.9mm versions. Each size has a different coloured ring – this 0.5mm version has a red ring, as you can perhaps tell. This Zebra Drafix ticks all the right boxes: low cost; eraser; long fine lead sleeve; grade indicator; size indicator; and […]
The last sketch from France, this time a quick little drawing I did early one morning, of the entrance to an old tumbled down stone bread oven. Tombow Mono 100 pencils, Pink Pig sketchbook.
The Mitsubishi Hi-Uni Pencil is a wooden pencil that comes in a vast range of different grades from 10B to 10H (22 grades in all). The finish is a gorgeous dark purple with gold lettering and trim and a black end. The hexagonal body neatly transforms into a rounded end. Everything suggests care and attention […]