Pen
and Ink Drawing 1
Ink
Drawing Tutorial
Houses
in Whitby, North Yorkshire
Pen, Ink and Watercolour
View
our ink and watercolour drawing in its actual size
Our
pen and ink tutorial takes you through the various stages
in the development of our illustration above. This is
a mixed media work on an A3 sheet of cartridge paper,
using pencil, Indian ink and watercolour. This tutorial
will develop some basic drawing skills in pencil, the
use of cross-hatching
and stippling
techniques with Indian ink and your watercolour painting
skills.
Selecting
a View
Architecture
is a very suitable subject for ink drawing as the flat
planes of buildings lend themselves naturally to ink
drawing techniques such as cross hatching and stippling.
For our illustration we chose a location with a flat
frontal view. The way that the buildings stack up helps
us to convey a sense of depth without the complications
of perspective
drawing. Buildings viewed from a high eye level,
like this view of Whitby in North Yorkshire, England,
provide good subjects of this type.
If
your overall view is too complicated, zoom in to a smaller
area of the scene which you may find easier to develop.
Choose a section where the composition of the shapes,
colours or textures of the buildings appeal to you.
A
landscape drawing or painting does not have to be an
identical copy of what the artist can see, but may have
some of its elements adjusted to create a better composition.
The section above was chosen for the unity and pattern
of its larger shapes. It has an even distribution of
flat rectangular walls with angular gables and roofs.
The smaller shapes of the chimneys and windows create
an interesting counterpoint to these larger elements.
Although the colours are quite similar throughout the
image they can be changed in favour of a more interesting
composition. Tiles, slates, brickwork and bushes provide
a range of patterns and textures that can also be adjusted
to contrast and harmonise different surfaces.
