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“It is in the order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call ‘The Ten Thousand Things’ around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is”.

(Frederick Franck, ‘The Zen of Seeing’).


Wednesday 31 October 2012

185 - Inking practice


Admittedly, this is not a great copy of a Mort Drucker illustration, it's meant to be the Godfather. However it did give me the opportunity to try out a couple of new pens and it was a good exercise in inking. All of the pen work was done using a Tombow ABT dual brush pen and it is one of my favourites at the moment. I bought mine from Cult Pens in the UK and highly recommend them. I was going to do a wash for the grey tones but the paper was too thin so I used Copic Markers instead.