Pen drawing with tone applied with marker.

Building off my last post, here is another example my recent dabblings with using a crowquill. The images above were both done done during a 20 minute pose in a recent figure drawing session. The first one was done in my more comfortable mode — brush and ink (with some wash). The second was done with a Hunt 102 crow quill.

Now this isn’t exactly an apples to apples kind of comparison. I spent about the first two thirds of the pose on the brush drawing and then the remaining third on the pen one. But even with that in mind, I think you can definitely see that I am much more comfortable with the brush then the pen.

As I mentioned in that last post, I don’t see myself abandoning my beloved brush for these sessions, but I do like some of the qualities that the pen gives.  I’d to continue to mess around with it as a nice changeup to my regular process.

Broke out a pen (with a little Tria marker for tone) for this drawing. Still a brush guy, but ya gotta mix it up from time to time.