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Bridge study
I spent time under the Brooklyn Bridge a few weeks ago drawing in my sketchbook, but I did this study from a photo I took that day. Similar technique in #Procreate as my last post, with selection color fills on reduced opacity layers, a very flat “block” brush and lots of smudging with a distinctive “comb” brush. (I left the #process video sideways on purpose.)

Bridge study
I spent time under the Brooklyn Bridge a few weeks ago drawing in my sketchbook, but I did this study from a photo I took that day. Similar technique in #Procreate as my last post, with selection color fills on reduced opacity layers, a very flat “block” brush and lots of smudging with a distinctive “comb” brush. (I left the #process video sideways on purpose.)

Bridge study
I spent time under the Brooklyn Bridge a few weeks ago drawing in my sketchbook, but I did this study from a photo I took that day. Similar technique in #Procreate as my last post, with selection color fills on reduced opacity layers, a very flat “block” brush and lots of smudging with a distinctive “comb” brush. (I left the #process video sideways on purpose.)

Bridge study
I spent time under the Brooklyn Bridge a few weeks ago drawing in my sketchbook, but I did this study from a photo I took that day. Similar technique in #Procreate as my last post, with selection color fills on reduced opacity layers, a very flat “block” brush and lots of smudging with a distinctive “comb” brush. (I left the #process video sideways on purpose.)

Bridge study
I spent time under the Brooklyn Bridge a few weeks ago drawing in my sketchbook, but I did this study from a photo I took that day. Similar technique in #Procreate as my last post, with selection color fills on reduced opacity layers, a very flat “block” brush and lots of smudging with a distinctive “comb” brush. (I left the #process video sideways on purpose.)

Bridge study
I spent time under the Brooklyn Bridge a few weeks ago drawing in my sketchbook, but I did this study from a photo I took that day. Similar technique in #Procreate as my last post, with selection color fills on reduced opacity layers, a very flat “block” brush and lots of smudging with a distinctive “comb” brush. (I left the #process video sideways on purpose.)

Memento Mori 2026
#procreate
#process

Memento Mori 2026
#procreate
#process

Memento Mori 2026
#procreate
#process

Memento Mori 2026
#procreate
#process

Dutch Street and William Street drawings. A couple more subway faces. Some shots from the day I drew William Street, showing how I definitely did not get the heights of the Muni Building and Thurgood Marshall Courthouse right. It’s fine! No one will know unless I tell them, right?
@uglybooksofficial sketchbook
#parallelpenhack
#paintmarker
#urbansketching

Dutch Street and William Street drawings. A couple more subway faces. Some shots from the day I drew William Street, showing how I definitely did not get the heights of the Muni Building and Thurgood Marshall Courthouse right. It’s fine! No one will know unless I tell them, right?
@uglybooksofficial sketchbook
#parallelpenhack
#paintmarker
#urbansketching

Dutch Street and William Street drawings. A couple more subway faces. Some shots from the day I drew William Street, showing how I definitely did not get the heights of the Muni Building and Thurgood Marshall Courthouse right. It’s fine! No one will know unless I tell them, right?
@uglybooksofficial sketchbook
#parallelpenhack
#paintmarker
#urbansketching

More subway portraits, including on on the inside front cover, and the inside of Variety Coffee in Chelsea.
@uglybooksofficial
#parallelpenhack
#brushpen
#paintmarkers

More subway portraits, including on on the inside front cover, and the inside of Variety Coffee in Chelsea.
@uglybooksofficial
#parallelpenhack
#brushpen
#paintmarkers

New Brunswick Cranes with an Airplane, a subway face, Mai working in her room, a cat named Boop sleeping on the arm of a couch during a party, a trumpet player that I didn’t draw enough of to really make the drawing look like anything but I kept it anyway.
@uglybooksofficial #parallelpenhack #brushpen #paintmarkers

New Brunswick Cranes with an Airplane, a subway face, Mai working in her room, a cat named Boop sleeping on the arm of a couch during a party, a trumpet player that I didn’t draw enough of to really make the drawing look like anything but I kept it anyway.
@uglybooksofficial #parallelpenhack #brushpen #paintmarkers

More scenes from a tan sketchbook. Stumbled into a dub night at @santasalsastreet because I was hungry after a night at the studio. More faces on the subway.
@uglybooksofficial notebook
#parallelpenhack
#brushpen
#paintmarkers

More scenes from a tan sketchbook. Stumbled into a dub night at @santasalsastreet because I was hungry after a night at the studio. More faces on the subway.
@uglybooksofficial notebook
#parallelpenhack
#brushpen
#paintmarkers

Recent-ish subway portraits, from July to October. More pages from my @uglybooksofficial sketchbook that I just finished. I tear through Muji notebooks, my standard inexpensive sketchbooks, usually finishing them in about a month, but with the toned paper in these Ugly Books I’m a lot more slow and cautious.
Paint markers and inks.
#parallelpenhack
#paintmarkers

Recent-ish subway portraits, from July to October. More pages from my @uglybooksofficial sketchbook that I just finished. I tear through Muji notebooks, my standard inexpensive sketchbooks, usually finishing them in about a month, but with the toned paper in these Ugly Books I’m a lot more slow and cautious.
Paint markers and inks.
#parallelpenhack
#paintmarkers

Recent-ish subway portraits, from July to October. More pages from my @uglybooksofficial sketchbook that I just finished. I tear through Muji notebooks, my standard inexpensive sketchbooks, usually finishing them in about a month, but with the toned paper in these Ugly Books I’m a lot more slow and cautious.
Paint markers and inks.
#parallelpenhack
#paintmarkers

Recent-ish subway portraits, from July to October. More pages from my @uglybooksofficial sketchbook that I just finished. I tear through Muji notebooks, my standard inexpensive sketchbooks, usually finishing them in about a month, but with the toned paper in these Ugly Books I’m a lot more slow and cautious.
Paint markers and inks.
#parallelpenhack
#paintmarkers

Benjamin Simmons Quartet (Quintet?) Stopped in at @fictionbar.cafe to drink an old fashioned and draw some jazz. I didn’t get a video but Fiction posted one to their account on November 6th.
#parallelpen
#parallelpenhack
#brushpendrawing

Benjamin Simmons Quartet (Quintet?) Stopped in at @fictionbar.cafe to drink an old fashioned and draw some jazz. I didn’t get a video but Fiction posted one to their account on November 6th.
#parallelpen
#parallelpenhack
#brushpendrawing

Benjamin Simmons Quartet (Quintet?) Stopped in at @fictionbar.cafe to drink an old fashioned and draw some jazz. I didn’t get a video but Fiction posted one to their account on November 6th.
#parallelpen
#parallelpenhack
#brushpendrawing

Mott Street
Drawing on the back inside cover of my @uglybooksofficial sketchbook. Juggling using lots of different pens and marker while standing on a busy street corner, trying to not block the crosswalk or the fruit market on the corner, incorporating the truck that starting unloading in the middle of my scene 1 minute after I started.
@nycurbansketchers
#pleinairartist
#fountainpen
#brushpen
#paintmarkers

Mott Street
Drawing on the back inside cover of my @uglybooksofficial sketchbook. Juggling using lots of different pens and marker while standing on a busy street corner, trying to not block the crosswalk or the fruit market on the corner, incorporating the truck that starting unloading in the middle of my scene 1 minute after I started.
@nycurbansketchers
#pleinairartist
#fountainpen
#brushpen
#paintmarkers

Mott Street
Drawing on the back inside cover of my @uglybooksofficial sketchbook. Juggling using lots of different pens and marker while standing on a busy street corner, trying to not block the crosswalk or the fruit market on the corner, incorporating the truck that starting unloading in the middle of my scene 1 minute after I started.
@nycurbansketchers
#pleinairartist
#fountainpen
#brushpen
#paintmarkers

The model last week started to feel dizzy at @drink_n_draw and our host @joelmorrison7 stepped up to do a couple of poses while she rested. This might actually have been the first time I’ve drawn Joel in the 15 years that I’ve known him! Thanks Joel!!
#paintmarkers

The model last week started to feel dizzy at @drink_n_draw and our host @joelmorrison7 stepped up to do a couple of poses while she rested. This might actually have been the first time I’ve drawn Joel in the 15 years that I’ve known him! Thanks Joel!!
#paintmarkers

Lee Imani from Sunday Sessions at Boyfriend Co-Op, 07-13-25
A few drawings in ink and acrylic on paper and a Procreate drawing

Lee Imani from Sunday Sessions at Boyfriend Co-Op, 07-13-25
A few drawings in ink and acrylic on paper and a Procreate drawing

Lee Imani from Sunday Sessions at Boyfriend Co-Op, 07-13-25
A few drawings in ink and acrylic on paper and a Procreate drawing

Lee Imani from Sunday Sessions at Boyfriend Co-Op, 07-13-25
A few drawings in ink and acrylic on paper and a Procreate drawing

Babs at Drink’n’Draw, 08-27-25
I’ve been playing with an EZY Primer, a contractor tool from Australia designed as a touch up pen for house paint. I filled the barrel with diluted ink instead & loosely sketch, then put my usual mix of color ink & acrylic markers on top. The diagonally cut bristles give it a range: finer lines on the point, ragged streaks at the edges & bold blobs on the end. Small demo video in the last slide.
#figuredrawing #paintmarkers #ezyprime #brushpen

Babs at Drink’n’Draw, 08-27-25
I’ve been playing with an EZY Primer, a contractor tool from Australia designed as a touch up pen for house paint. I filled the barrel with diluted ink instead & loosely sketch, then put my usual mix of color ink & acrylic markers on top. The diagonally cut bristles give it a range: finer lines on the point, ragged streaks at the edges & bold blobs on the end. Small demo video in the last slide.
#figuredrawing #paintmarkers #ezyprime #brushpen

Babs at Drink’n’Draw, 08-27-25
I’ve been playing with an EZY Primer, a contractor tool from Australia designed as a touch up pen for house paint. I filled the barrel with diluted ink instead & loosely sketch, then put my usual mix of color ink & acrylic markers on top. The diagonally cut bristles give it a range: finer lines on the point, ragged streaks at the edges & bold blobs on the end. Small demo video in the last slide.
#figuredrawing #paintmarkers #ezyprime #brushpen

Babs at Drink’n’Draw, 08-27-25
I’ve been playing with an EZY Primer, a contractor tool from Australia designed as a touch up pen for house paint. I filled the barrel with diluted ink instead & loosely sketch, then put my usual mix of color ink & acrylic markers on top. The diagonally cut bristles give it a range: finer lines on the point, ragged streaks at the edges & bold blobs on the end. Small demo video in the last slide.
#figuredrawing #paintmarkers #ezyprime #brushpen

Babs at Drink’n’Draw, 08-27-25
I’ve been playing with an EZY Primer, a contractor tool from Australia designed as a touch up pen for house paint. I filled the barrel with diluted ink instead & loosely sketch, then put my usual mix of color ink & acrylic markers on top. The diagonally cut bristles give it a range: finer lines on the point, ragged streaks at the edges & bold blobs on the end. Small demo video in the last slide.
#figuredrawing #paintmarkers #ezyprime #brushpen