ATC No. 683 Scene with Mushrooms

ATC No. 683 Scene with Mushrooms 

I was trying out my new ink and decided to film my efforts. Waterman Intense Black Ink is a lot thinner than my ancient  Daler Rowney Black Acrylic Artists ink, which I anticipated. One being new and for fountain pens and the other being at least ten years old and acrylic. I am almost out of my old ink and I wanted a black that would work in my fountain pens. The Waterman's ink was more half off on an Amazon Lightening Deal, so that's what I bought. It doesn't stick to the nib as thickly and it gives me a finer line, but it flows for about the same length of time. I also have Waterman's Serenity Blue and Tender Purple Ink, so I wasn't flying blind except for how dark the black (some black inks are not actually black, just a very dark blue, and some shortly fade to brown) is and the colors it bleeds in a wash. See photo below. 

Notes:

Both of the inks bled out mostly brown. The watercolor paint bled out blue, no surprise there as I know it's blue based.

Here is a sample of brush pens' activation with water - Marvy LePlume II No. 1 Black (Gray, more on the blue side), Tombow N15 Black (brown), and Tombow Fudenosuke WS-BH Black (pigment, brown, mostly on the back of the pad).

The camera was not perfectly level so the bottom of the drawing is out of focus. I did not notice this until I went to edit. Since I do this for fun and to remember what I have drawn, I posted the video anyway. If it bothers you too much, I'm sorry, don't watch :) On a positive note, I am figuring out how to edit out my fingers when they really get in the way and are more irritating or distracting than useful. Keeping my fingers in the frame sometimes, does show I am actually drawing these.

ATC No. 683 Scene with Mushrooms was done with a dip pen (Hunt Extra Fine Bow Point, 512), brush (Grumbacher, 1 , 178), and ink (Waterman, Intense Black, first time I’ve used this black ink). The dip pens I inherited from my mom keep my fingers out of the frame better then the Micron pens do. 

Original footage is about 30 minutes reduced to two minutes and thirty seconds on YouTube, @ArtsyTheta.

Original footage is about 30 minutes reduced to twenty seconds on Instagram @ArtsyTheta

I did not sketch this one before committing the sketch to paper nor did I have a reference photo, if that is not obvious. Periodically my conscious has an to start with, but sometimes my subconscious has another idea…

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