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I’m optimistically naming this as Part One in the hopes it will encourage me to do some more of these sketches in sepia.  I did some sepia sketches using a dip pen and ink the other week, but came to the conclusion that as romantic as a dip pen is, a regular pen is much easier and far less stressful.  This is me all over, practicality trumps romance every time.

As you can see, my attention span wandered a fair bit while I was working on this page and I was influenced by everything from what I was listening to at the time (the old BBC Radio adaptations of Sherlock Holmes), to what I had on my muffins that morning (Marmite, of course)!  I’m pleased with the results though, apart from the first Swan Vesta sketch – I tried a new pen and didn’t take to it at all, so won’t be using that again.

These are all postcard (ish) size and will be appearing in my Etsy shop very soon.

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I returned to the pen and ink drawings over Wednesday and Thursday evening, and I’m glad that I did.  I think the sepia ink works better with a more simple style.  Just the outlines have been inked in, and (to my eyes at least!) I think it looks good:

Here’s the first version I did on Tuesday:

See, I do think the simple version works better, what do you think?  I also had a go at a view of the London Underground:

I haven’t a clue what I’m going to do with these yet.  So far they’re just experiments so I may do a few more and then decide whether they’re good enough to do some print of…

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