After flipping through a few books on Japanese culture, Chinese art, and lost civilizations (mainly Pre-Columbian cities) for inspiration, I gathered a few sets of
pigment liner pens to sketch some fantasy warriors on a 11" x 14"
Canson smooth bristol sheet. For this session, I dug out a
Faber-Castell 4 Pitt artist pens Manga Drawing set that includes the Pitt line smallest
XS nib to supplement my usual selection of
pen nibs widths. With its pigmented lightfast India ink, I was confident that it would work well with my
Sakura Pigma Sensei and
Staedtler Mars Professional pens.
After drawing the 2 characters on the foreground with the 0.3 mm and 0.4 mm
Sakura Pigma Sensei pens, the dragon perched on the column behind them was initially drawn with he
XS Pitt Artist pen.
Added a wall and a
Tengu to complete the picture. The wall decorations are loosely based on frieze patterns and mythical creatures from the
Chan Chan citadel and
Huaca el Dragon from the
Chimu culture. The 0.6 mm
Sakura pen and 0.7 mm
Staedtler pen nibs were used to increase the line weight of the architectural elements and the fantasy creatures' outlines.
Ended up using the smallest
Staedtler Mars Professional 0.25 mm nib technical pen for the fog patterns in the sky and much of the lightest wall texture marks. The outline on the two mutant warrior characters on the ground were made thicker with a final retracing with the 0.6 mm
Sakura Pigma Sensei pen.
Still having fun with this convenient selection of
pigment liner pens, but I suppose I should give my brushes and dip pens with metal nibs a try one of these days as well. Probably should also start trying to to lay down the general design of the page with an initial pencil sketch to improve the composition and balance of the finished picture.
After flipping through a few books on Japanese culture, Chinese art, and lost civilizations (mainly Pre-Columbian cities) for inspiration, I gathered a few sets of pigment liner pens to sketch some fantasy warriors on a 11" x 14" Canson smooth bristol sheet. For this session, I dug out a Faber-Castell 4 Pitt artist pens Manga Drawing set that includes the Pitt line smallest XS nib to supplement my usual selection of pen nibs widths. With its pigmented lightfast India ink, I was confident that it would work well with my Sakura Pigma Sensei and Staedtler Mars Professional pens.
After drawing the 2 characters on the foreground with the 0.3 mm and 0.4 mm Sakura Pigma Sensei pens, the dragon perched on the column behind them was initially drawn with he XS Pitt Artist pen.
Added a wall and a Tengu to complete the picture. The wall decorations are loosely based on frieze patterns and mythical creatures from the Chan Chan citadel and Huaca el Dragon from the Chimu culture. The 0.6 mm Sakura pen and 0.7 mm Staedtler pen nibs were used to increase the line weight of the architectural elements and the fantasy creatures' outlines.
Ended up using the smallest Staedtler Mars Professional 0.25 mm nib technical pen for the fog patterns in the sky and much of the lightest wall texture marks. The outline on the two mutant warrior characters on the ground were made thicker with a final retracing with the 0.6 mm Sakura Pigma Sensei pen.
Still having fun with this convenient selection of pigment liner pens, but I suppose I should give my brushes and dip pens with metal nibs a try one of these days as well. Probably should also start trying to to lay down the general design of the page with an initial pencil sketch to improve the composition and balance of the finished picture.
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