Monday, March 9, 2009

Coke

 
I started getting these smaller 8oz cokes to trick myself into drinking slightly less sugar-water.   These are drawn with a Waterman fountain pen in water soluble ink and shaded a bit with a Niji waterbrush.  Very fun, very mobile setup for sketches.

4 comments:

  1. My question is, are you drinking less soda since they are smaller? I did for a while. I was wasting soda most of the time, so have a can was good for me. They don't make it in decaf though:(

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  2. Per serving, I'm drinking less because there is simply less coke there. Overall, because I'm keeping the fridge stocked, I'm drinking more. It was a conscious decision though. I was crossing the street to the machine in payton nearly every day...

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  3. What kind of ink do you use with your pen for sketching?

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  4. I believe that is Waterman brand black ink, though I sometimes use Pelican "Fount India: Drawing ink for fountain pens." It is much darker and I also use it to refil my Pentel Brush Pen. http://www.jetpens.com/product_info.php/products_id/1793

    That plus the waterbrush on moleskine watercolor notebooks have become my favorite for mobile sketching. The coke cans above were sketched on a standard moleskine sketch book which has a thick, rigid paper which can stand up to water but it's not very porous so it tends to smear more and dry more slowly.

    What kind of pens do you use?

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