Recent Pen and Ink Drawings

I’ve been making a conscious effort to get away from the computer and do more drawings on, shock, horror, actual paper, using actual pens and inks. Photoshop, Illustrator and all the rest are great for doing very specific tasks, quickly, to meet deadlines, but I think they have actually become part of the reason I’ve become stuck into a bit of an artistic rut. Maybe the best thing for me to do is to forgo using the computer whenever I can, and try to get back to, really, what made me interested in art in the first place; Pen and ink drawings.

Re-inspired by a combination of the drawings gallery at the British Museum, a 1-day Drawing from Nature workshop I attended recently at the Royal College of Art, and also by the drawings of Robert Hooke, but also, more importantly, because my mum told me to, I have decided to try start drawing properly again on a regular basis.

Um, well, I haven’t managed to do many drawings yet, but here are a few of the more successful ones so far. Must try harder though….

Fallen Leaf
Fallen Leaf
Conker!
Conker!
Pine Cone!
Pine Cone!

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