From the course: Drawing Foundations: Sketching the Landscape
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Pencils, pens, and watercolors
From the course: Drawing Foundations: Sketching the Landscape
Pencils, pens, and watercolors
When I'm sketching on location, I approach it quite loosely and I often work with a pen rather than a pencil. Pens can be really handy when you're out sketching because you can get dark lines down very quickly, and you can work in different tones of pens to emulate more of the techniques that I'll be using when I'm painting. So, I'm approaching my sketches as if I'm going to be going out with a paintbrush, but using the pens instead. So, I find these artist pens from Faber-Castell, these PITT pens, really, really nice, because they come in different tones of grey. So, what I can have is a dark grey, or a warm grey, and I can use these in my actual sketches. So, I can look for something in the distance that's got a coolness to it, something in the foreground that's got a warmness, a mid-tone, or a darkness to it with the dark grey. They've got a fiber tip to them, and they can be really nice just to work on the side or turn them around and add details to them when you're just out with…
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