sketches from the last couple weeks

FPR Dilli + watercolour pencils

Sheaffer Intrigue + watercolour pencils + photoshop

Sheaffer Intrigue + Ken's vintage pens + watercolour pencils + Van dyke brown dye + photoshop. Messy!

Modified Ahab + watercolours

Hunt 101 nib in modified Ackerman pump pen + watercolours

Good Morning, Ma'am

Do Not Call (DNC) Registry: http://dnc.gov.sg/index.html

Block 42

Around my neighbourhood after lunch. It had just stopped raining. I climbed up a block of flats I'd not visited before and found this spot where I could draw in private. The market on the right was under renovation. Sheaffer Intrigue + watersoluble colour pencils.

Meat, noodles and fruits

Modified Ahab + colour pencil + photoshop

Tachikawa maru nib in modified Ackerman pen

Sailor 1911 XF + gouache

tuesday night outing

Modified Ahab

Modified Ahab + chinese ink + photoshop

Modified Ahab + chinese ink + photoshop

The pen buying process

Shakespeare dip nib, gouache + photoshop

My messy studio

Parka shot photos of my messy studio: http://www.parkablogs.com/picture/drewscapes-home-studio

Friday and Saturday

Ackerman with Tachikawa maru nib + reservoir / Platinum 3776 + watercolour/ photoshop. Yes I have hairy legs.

Hunt 108 in Ackerman (a super flexible nib) / Dilli / Leonardt 40 + watercolour.

Last week

Waterman 52 with account nib.

Scenes drawn from memory of actual places. Mechanical pencil + watercolours.

Ackerman pump pen with hunt nib

Naka-ai fountain pen + watercolours.

Round-robin comic

Round-robin comic done by me (page 1), Maximilian Loh (page 2), James Tan (page 3). We went to a Starbucks near my place to do this.

Mechanical pencil + diluted ink.

Ackerman Crowquill with reservoir modification writing sample

This is the Ackerman with crowquill section and reservoir mod writing sample. All this was written with one pump on an A5 sheet of paper. You can buy the Tachikawa crowquill reservoir from http://www.amazon.com/Tachikawa-Tank-Master-Comic-Pen/dp/B006CQUKDI

Comic diary workshop

Some pictures from a "comic diary" workshop I was conducting at the Woodlands Regional Library in Singapore.

lunch

underused chinese brush pen + photoshop.

Illustrations for Elle Magazine

These illustrations were based on selected stories for the ELLE Writes competition and they appear in this month's (Nov) Elle Singapore Magazine. I liked the stories chosen. Tools used: Zig Calligraphy marker, Modified Custom 742, Parallel pen + watercolours.

needlepoint scribble

A random scribble with the Custom 742SF ground to a very fine nib by Greg Minuskin. With colour added in photoshop.

chicken and girls

Ackerman pen with Leonardt 40 nib

Practice drawings from magazine. Naka-ai + watercolour

Ackerman pen with Leonardt 40 nib. Acrylic inks.