Line Drawing with Lisa Congdon

I'm just loving Creative Bug, an on-line site with lots of great art classes for only $5 a month. I first signed up because Pam Garrison had a great class, Creative Sketchbooking. Just this week I watched a class from Lisa Congdon, a wonderful graphic artist. I took the More Sketchbook Exploration course. I've only watched part 1 of 4, but learned so much already!

The course is about line drawing using a black and white pen.

As you can see, I decided to use a notebook filled with handwriting as my surface, rather than a blank white page.

This is a book my daughter purchased and was put in the donate pile.

I don't think she ever read it, but when I saw it, I was thinking what a cool background those hand written pages would make and so I took it out of the donate pile and into my stash.

I love how my line drawings look on these notebook pages.

I'm not sure if I'm going to go back and add color or leave the entire book/journal black and white.

But it's been so much fun doodling in this book. The page below is inspired from Pam Garrison's Sketchbook course, but I did mine in all black and white.

I used a black brush pen I bought at Daiso (japanese dollar store), a Copic .3 black pen and white uni-ball Signo pen.

 

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the drawings, but they're really fun to make.

 

 Anyhow, these are the pages I worked on this week.

 I'm really looking forward to Part 2, 3 and 4 of Lisa's class.

Re-purposing a book into an art sketchbook is a good thing!