Pen and Ink drawing Part 2 (Mod 6 Chpt3)

 I worked over a long period on the second half of this chapter, and I still feel that I would love to do more drawings for it. I've taken old buildings in King's Lynn as a theme for this chapter and took the opportunity to consider plans for the final chapter in this module. I think it more than likely that pen and ink drawings will form the basis for my final book; whether I do a complete street view or do four sides of the same building and incorporate notes and other drawings on the reverse.

In doing the first half of this chapter I spent much time looking at different types of mark making for pen and ink drawings, but what I actually found was that in practice, given my style and buildings as a theme, that only a few were relevant. I did try to do some stippling, and I can see the value to it when inferring a line/edge but not drawing it, but I'm afraid I don't have the patience for this technique.

Thoresby College Door

There are some beautiful old doorways in the Lynn, and I've had my eye on this one for a while. I used 0.3 and 0.1 fine line pens for this drawing and a final colour wash. This was the simplest image I worked from and although it's possible this is the best drawing, the rest were considerably more challenging:

Barley Twist Column

Another beautiful doorway giving on to a little courtyard. A considerably bigger challenge than the first doorway. Although the left column did not work entirely and the proportions on that side are out slightly, I am not unhappy or ashamed of this study. It was worked in biro with watercolour felt tip pen:

Alms Houses at the entrance to The Walks in strong winter light

Another challenge to work with strong diagonal light and a wider perspective. Worked in fine line pen and Derwent Inktense colour sticks:

Drawing 4: King's Lynn Customs House in very strong morning light

This was quite the challenge, so many vertical lines and so much dark shade at the base and so much light at the top, but I chose it because I was keen to have a go with a Sharpie Pen. This is worked with biro and Sharpie, no additional colour added.

Drawing 5 - A corner of St Nicks

After the previous detailed drawings I decided the last piece should be a much quicker sketch. I used ink pen with water soluble ink for this piece, doing it as quickly as possible

Claire Gordon

17/05/21