Thursday, January 21, 2016

SKETCHBOOK SAMPLES

I've decided to introduce the New Year with some of my sketchbook studies. For quick sketching outdoors I keep things as simple as possible. I carry a Rotring Art Pen, Pentel Colour and wash brushes and A4/A5 cartridge paper sketchbooks. Recently I've started to use ZIG Art and Graphic Twin This drawing tool has well-pointed brush in one end and a fibre tip nib at the other. This makes the Rotring pen obsolete.

2 comments:

Amanda Bates said...

Lovely, lively sketches.

I'm assuming that your ZIG Art and Graphic Twin is a disposable tool, unlike the Rotring Art Pen, which is surely enough reason to rescue the latter from obsolescence!

Robert Kirk said...

Good to have a comment from you Amanda. It’s been a long time since your last one.

I was wrong to say the Rotring Art pen is obsolete I still use mine and it is still sold on Amazon. The Zig device has a fine tipped brush for brush drawing but the insensitive fibre tip at the opposite end has a limited use. Also the Zig becomes useless when the ink runs out!

Which reminds me, I must order some Rotring refills.