Sunday, September 20, 2015

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!

3 comments:

  1. Fantastic doodling in black and white. The background is perfect for this. I like what you learned from Pam Garrison's course and used the black and white only colors. I can't wait to start doodling. I know you will find a creative purpose with these pages.

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  2. Love your black and white drawings, esp. against the backdrop of The Notebook Girls. Very cool!

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  3. you always continue to amaze me!!!!! these are wonderful and I will consider taking this on line class ...love the simplicity f the color and lines
    Laura H xoxo

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