This week, I’ve been doing a lot of sketch practicing in attempts to train my drawing hand and strengthen it up. I suppose my hands and fingers could be considered quite weak, since I waver and shake a lot for lack of control. However, I do love to sketch, whether just line drawings or trying to shade as well. Of course, sometimes I just keep sketching and never follow through to finish anything off into final pieces…oh well!
Along with sketching goes inking and that’s definitely a challenging part for me. I sort of get happy just having finished the sketch and almost don’t want to “ruin” it by inking over. However, I’ve finally bought a few Sakura Micron pens to try out and super happy with the results. Now that I have the Microns, I’m inking some of my sketches and loving how much control I have even with the super fine .25mm pen. Wowsers! Now I have to go buy all the sizes, right?
So my creative space has been a lot of sketching and inking and strengthening. My brother had told me about grip exercises as well…maybe I do need a workout routine for my hands…
I think we all have strengths and weaknesses, but we can always work on the weaknesses and turn them into strengths. I’m always trying to get better and better, day by day. Hope you enjoyed taking a peek at my creative space and don’t forget to check out all the other creative workspaces on kootoyoo. Ciao ciao!
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I just love seeing sketches! I like the Microns, too. They also have a sepia ink, which I like for certain types of drawing. My hands are shaky too, but it’s usually due to low blood sugar or a genetic shake called “essential tremors” that runs in our family. :-/
Thanks for stopping by, Gretchen! I love to share my sketches…ooo and I will have to look for the sepia ink. So cool! Oh my…I wonder if I have that genetic factor…one of my brother’s is like that too, but when we get hungry, we all shake a bit, right?!
I love seeing your sketchbook and drawing practice! I need to spend more time sketching like this. I also love Micron pens. Great idea to use them to trace over your pencil sketches. So fun!
Thanks, Terri! Yep, I often do not do anything more thank just sketching drawings…I don’t follow through with inking and coloring, because I find those to the hard parts!
Microns are my favorite. My favorite are the .25 mm. The .20′s nib doesn’t work well for me for some reason. LOVE seeing your workspace again. Thank you for sharing it!
Very cool…I will have to try all the different sizes of Microns…great to find a useful new tool! Thank YOU for visiting and checking my creative space as always
I really appreciate it!
Ah, inks, the love of my life, I use them in all my drawings now and just love the way they turn the drawing into something a lot more special. And don’t get me started on ink brushpens, I’ve got so many now and still want to keep buying more, can’t get it enough
I definitely haven’t got the skill to go to ink brushing, yet! I do have a cool old fountain ink pen, but it’s super hard to control the flow of ink…eek!
these look like great pens I love the tiny details you add in like the shading on the girls neck.
Thanks so much, kt! It is amazing how fine the lines can be…I love these Microns!
Gotta love a .25 micron. I always seem to fare much better when I MAKE myself sketch quickly (i.e. start off with 1 minute sketches before going longer). Otherwise I am waaay too tight and fairly wobbly…
Yeah, I think it’s interesting that the harder I try the worse it gets – I just need to loosen up!