My favorite ink technique is stippling; a stippled drawing is made entirely of tiny dots using a technical drawing pen and tends to give a drawing a dusty timeless quality (I complete most of my commissioned portraits using this technique). The buildings shown here use linework along side scribbled and cross-hatched lines; using different types of lines will create the bushes along a path, the shadow on a clapboard house and the velvet texture of a dog's muzzle.
Pen and ink also lends itself well to mixed media projects and I enjoy combining watercolor along with pen and ink to pop out details and tell the complete story that I'm working to portray. The drawings shown here were created using reference photos, allowing me the time needed to capture detail. The time needed to complete a pen and ink drawing varies from 6 hours for a simple structure to 60+ hours for a mid-sized stippled portrait.
