Experimenting with gouache

Ink and gouache sketches on Moleskine & Fabriano sketchbooks.

International Fake Journal Month 2012

I’ve been busy this month participating in Roz Stendahl’s International Fake Journal Month. Its purpose is to make people think of an alter ego and have him/her visual journaling for a month. 


I thought of some sketchy background for my fake identity, but I was mainly interested in the challenge of being able to draw something daily and see what I could do in a month (and being abroad seemed the perfect excuse for using Google Earth and some photos of mine). 


I’m posting some of the coloured ones but they’re mainly ink drawings: IFJM 2012 (which might or might not get coloured in the near future).
 It’s been a roller-coaster month of sorts but I’m happy with the fact that at the moment I only skipped 3 days out of 26! The results are not that great but I’m posting all of them (the ones I like, the bad and the ugly) in an album at Flickr because I want to think it’s better to have a bunch of bad drawings than none at all. 


Think of joining next year, all in all it's been a great experience! :)

EDM #209 - Draw a shadow

EDM #209 - Draw a shadow. 

Lamy Safari with Noodler's Lexington Grey ink.

EDM # 219, Draw a window. 

Noodler's Ahab flex pen with Bad Blue Heron ink.

EDM #33 'Draw an eye' 

Noodler's Ahab flex pen with Bad Blue Heron ink.

Noodler's Ahab flex pen with Bad Blue Heron ink on watercolour moleskine.

faces

Lamy Safari with Noodler's Lexington grey ink.

Casetes

Noodler's flex pen with Noodler's Blue heron ink.

El meu barri / My neighbourhood

Pittt pen on large Watercolour Moleskine - digitally coloured.

Blind contours

EDM 128 - Draw a view through a doorway from one interior room to another.

Lamy Safari with blue ink on moleskine.

Didn't quite enjoy the way the lamy ink behaves on the moleskine sketchbook ...

Paissatges

sketches, watercolour & pen on moleskine.

Faber-Castell Pitt pen & digital colour on (sketchbook paper taped into) moleskine.

Faber-Castell Pitt pen & digital colour on (sketchbook paper taped into) moleskine.

Sepia Faber-Castell Pitt pen on (sketchbook paper taped into) moleskine.

Faber-Castell Pitt pen on (sketchbook paper taped into) moleskine.

Faber-Castell Pitt pen on (sketchbook paper taped into) moleskine.

Faber-Castell Pitt pen on (sketchbook paper taped into) moleskine.

Faber-Castell Pitt pen on (sketchbook paper taped into) moleskine.

Going back to the drawing board

Sepia Pitt pen on sketchbook paper taped into moleskine.