Getting Started: Pens, Ink, Drawing Techniques 

Those with arthritic hands may want to look into fountain pens. As the arthritis in my finger joints progresses using fountain pens and pencils are what have allowed me to draw again.

Brings back many memories of what I used to put on the edges of most of my notebook paper while listening to a boring teacher talk about the inner workings of an earthworm. Of course, that was 50 years ago. Glad to see that someone is passing on this mind calming art form.

Thanx for the clear, practical instruction. Of great value & inspiring to me personally. I may spend Sunday afternoon with pen & paper! God bless...

Sandy, thank you. I am always learning from you😊

This is great! Whenever I try to learn how to draw I always set the bar too high. This feels like the perfect entry level to get cool results without burning myself out for the 100th time.

This was wonderful for getting me started in black and White ink techniques. Thank you

This is such a relaxing form of art! I also feel pen drawings are more forgiving. I appreciate seeing all of the various patterns which I had never tried before. Thanks so much, Sandy!

Magnificent tutorial, I barely knew the basics of hatching and with this video I discovered that the possibilities are endless

A great tutorial Sandy! Thank you so much for sharing your techniques. I love to "doodle", so I will be trying these out.

Good morning, Sandy, You're an amazing artist 👍. So much appreciated for your beautiful artwork. You're so well organized. I have my drawing supplies. Since my mother passed away, I didn't do much of drawing. When I saw your work, it's time for me to get back to do art. So much appreciated, Sandy ⚘️💗.

I loved watching you drawing and explaining. Very inspirational and I am absolutely going to try this for cards! Thank you for this great tutorial

My favorite was the drawing of the St. John’s bridge, gorgeous!

Wow. This is so inspiring. I remember doing something like this in a school art class many years ago. Will have to try it again. Thank you. 👏🖋️🇿🇦

Love this, and I like the simplicity. Looks like a great place to start my niece on card making. Thanks for sharing!

Hi Sandy! What an excellent introduction to pen and ink drawing techniques. I have embraced what I call "zen-doodling". I have learned so much in 10 minutes. Thank you. New subscriber!😊

Excellent video, all always. Very relaxing to watch. 😊

I fell in love with pen and ink drawing when I saw Claudia Nice's books. She's amazing. and you make it look easy. thanks as always for sharing.

Loved this Sandy, thanks so much for the inspiration!

Love this... I use to do pen and ink pictures. I do this now for doodling when I am on hold on a phone call.

Wow! Very interesting! You made very understandable and doable. Thanks!

I have done a bit of this but just random doodling. Like the idea of having the patterns in front of me to keep me from getting stuck. TFS

I appreciate all the time and effort you made to share with us. Thank you.

This was an amazing simple video. It wasn't to worry or overly involved. It help me visualize the little details. Without feeling overwhelmed by the idea of a large project. Thank you for sharing!

It's the elegant simplicity that makes ot genius. Thank you for sharing your expertise with us. Absolutely brilliant ❤

Wow! I love the way you share all these techniques. Amazing!!

I know I’m probably finding this video really late, but this is fantastic. I’ve been trying to find good practice lessons for my students with pen and ink drawings, so I’m going to try this tomorrow! Thank you for posting!

The Bridge is amazing!!! Thank you for teaching

I really enjoyed this video lesson and watching you draw the various techniques on your work sheet. I found this lesson to be very educational, as well as interesting to watch. I did download your work sheet, and thank you for posting the work sheet and the video lesson for us. I am looking forward to playing with some pens and papers as I practice steps from the work sheet.

Thank you so much, Sandy. You are such a wonderful person. ♥♥♥

Many thanks for sharing this techniques. I just tried out this exercise today and enjoyed it. ❤

its a great demo for the pen drawing ! I love it. hope to see more landscape drawing techniques . thanks for for your hard work ! Sandy.

Thanks a lot for Sharing such valuable things to the world for free. Never knew pen could create magic to this level on a white sheet of paper. Thanks once again.

Thank you, Sandy! I have learned so much from youM

That was really cool and very informative. The Christmas card turned out so well and was so unusual - my Christmas cards are done for this year but next year may be a pen and ink Christmas. Your landscape ink drawings are absolutely beautiful.

This was SO HELPFUL! Thank you very much!

Thanks for showing what you do .

Totally what I need to learn now … thank you so very much 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank you Sandy! Your tutorial was so relaxing to watch ❤ I love hatching/cross hatching. Doodling is my favourite go to for expressing how I feel...therapeutic too. My favourite shapes are circles, ellipses, cups and houses depending on my mood that day. You have a new subscriber

Really fascinating to watch. Loved the artwork!

This is my foray into hatching, although I'll have to wait until my wrist settles down from feeling all "pins and needle-y". It drives me batty when it gets like this and I never know when its going to hit. It's hit and miss with it and the fibromyalgia... its a bad week, but ☝🏾😃 I'm subscribed, so that's a good thing! 😁 Thanks for the lesson... it was fun learning the techniques. Your art is lovely. Thank you. 💐 🙏🏽💞

I love the way you teach and I feel like I just learned so much in one video. Thank you so much!

Thank you very much for a relaxed 10 min of inking basics with beautiful and impressive beginners and advanced practice samples. ❤ I very much enjoy the video.

Lovely, thanks for sharing Sandy💕👍🏽

AAAAAA THIS IS SO AMUSING AND RELAXING AND ALSO INSPIRING AT THE SAME TIME!! I'm soo glad i found this!!

Furthermore its art one can do anywhere anytime. Im so excited i can't wait to try this. 😊

Always so inspiring!

A niche one would be a fluid writer pen, those are funny to operate from the looks of it. It’s a pipe but for paper.

Thank you so much for this tutorial!

Just what I have been looking for thank you!

Thanks Sandy, really enjoyed your tutorial, it’s inspired me to try some silhouette style pictures like your Christmas card.

Wow you have hooked me in. My mind is buzzing with ideas. Thank you

Your bridge was amazing!

Personally, I love the gel pens. I've been zen doodling for years, it's very relaxing.

Awesome art! You're very talented!

Thanks so helpful for a beginner!

thank you so much, for showing the different types/styles of hatching as I am just starting out and this will defo help me out

thank you for this - really enjoyed it!

Hi, Many many Thanks for your such an informative video. I Love it. I have Carpal tunnel syndrome , and unable to do art work for many months. Your video made me hopeful that I can start artwork again. Thanks again. 🌺

Wow thank you for the great info

Thanks for this, i am using Inkscape and these techniques are relateable with paths !

Wow, thanks a lot for your time and dedication to make this wonderful video. I've learnt a bit more today and I'm eager to finish some homework and put my hands down to draw something!

This is really cool, new to me. WOW! Thank you

Thank you, Sandy! I has been both eager and hesitating to start drawing for years. Fear of failure (I know, it is ridiculous) that was keeping me back. Techniques you demonstrate are fun and accessible. AND you show how those can be used to create!.. You gained a subscriber 😊

Extreme talent!

Gorgeous sketch of the St.Johns bridge.

I enjoyed it a lot, thank you

Your version of the St. John’s bridge is wonderful!

Fascinating video.

Beautiful!!!

Excellent video! Thank you! Been looking for ways to add to my drawings as I feel sometimes things are either too detailed with the same "texture" or not detailed enough, was pleasantly surprised to see I've been using a few of these already without having a name for them, but will be incorporating what you've shown here! Thanks!

The best tutorial I've ever seen thank you 😊

Thank you so much 💗🖤 I was searching for this type of video. This is so helpful. Thank you again ❤❤

This is a great introduction to pen and ink. Clear, informative and has opened my eyes to the potential of this medium. I love drawing and using all types of pens and pencils. It's also the push i need to get a fountain pen that I have been wanting for a while. 😂

you are quite the artist!

Wow. Thank you!

Thank you, Sandy, for this most informative tutorial. I have something that I would like to share that might help others.I have recently found that my preferred brand of gel pens is not light-fast and have lost a valuable personal drawing that I had done as a result. It was displayed on the wall, and was never in direct sunlight. I always have a blind drawn in that room to diffuse the light. However, now that I think about it, I had a regular living room lamp with a 40 watt incandescent bulb about six feet away from the drawing and it was often on. Hmm. Never thought incandescent light could have such a destructive effect. (I can't use florescent lamps or tubes for health reasons due to the flickering, and I do not like the way that led light sources diffuse the light or how they can effect the color balance and temperature. So for me, incandescent it is.) I happened across an old photo of my drawing and was shocked to see how much detail had gradually disappeared over the course of about two years. The drawing is now stored in a box, but the damage has been done. Perhaps UV glass might help, idk. Has anyone else come across this issue with the light-fastness of gel pens, or any pens for that matter? And can anyone offer any suggestions or have any real world solutions? Your input would be very much appreciated. Thank you, in advance. For those interested, I prefer ball point pens over felt or fountain pens. I've tried Staedtler and other brands of technical pens as well but I personally found them unsuitable for fast, loose and spontaneous drawing and also they did not produce the results I wanted. Maybe I was using them incorrectly, idk. I've been using Uniball Micro and Uniball Micro Deluxe black pens, from .2mm (no longer made) to .7mm, for over 30 years, and Sarasota Zebra red gel pens, .7mm, for about 5 years (since I discovered them) almost exclusively for my pen and ink drawings. Recently I bought some black Sarasota gel pens and then discovered the light fast issue. To date I have not had any fading issues at all with the Uniball pens.

GORGEOUS! 🎉😮❤

This makes drawing seem a lot less intimidating, thank you so much

Inspiring, thank you!

❤🎉 hello from British Columbia Canada

Awesome!

Much appreciated!

Thank you!

Beautiful ,thnq

Love it and tks

Had all the best of intentions in joining Inktober and purchasing the ink sketching class…. Life happens! 😌 So thank you for this video and swatch/exercises chart! 🌺 I will be there next year!

I enjoyed watching you do this technique with a fountain pen. I really like the different patterns. Your video also reminds me of Peter Draws. He uses fountain pens as well as other types of pens in his art. Your examples of your art at the end are awesome!

"Tiling" hatching is a rarely used, but nice technique. I can only think of the illustrator Brett Helquist consistently using it, and then perhaps Sergio Toppi, and maybe a few cartoonists like Paul Flora. Are there more artists/examples with this hatching technique?

I recognize the St. John’s Bridge! Very nice

Beautiful

Every time i stipple, i get really excited and happy to do it until about half way through then it becomes tedious and resentful lol. Every dangol time, and yet i still do it time and time again because of that first half where i love it.

Merci !

Hi Sandy! Do you happen to know if I would try drawing gum with a dip pen, would this be okay or will it wreck the pen?

Wow!!!!!!!@!👏😍

Lovely drawings! Do you pencil in the drawings, like the bridge, first or do you go right in with a pen? 🙏

❤ thank you mam ❤

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Nice

Do I have to create an account prior to getting ability to download information on pen techniques

Negative space drawing