My teenage nephew is staying over, he’s a music student and I wanted to do some sketching with him. I’ve been doing a lot of scribbling at gigs recently but there’s not enough time to really focus on details like hands and the position and the foreshortening of the instruments. As he “noodled” with his guitar on the settee, we chatted about what we were doing and realised we were following more or less the same process, trying out different things with our instruments, messing around to see what would happen, improvising. Living my best life!!!!!!!xxxxx
I’m using Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens, Derwent Inktense blocks with a reservoir brush, into a Moleskin sketchbook. I took liberties with the perspective on this, to see what would happen. It has possibilities.


This is beautifully executed. By chance I’ve been using inktense half pans too. Interesting, unlike conventional watercolour … semi opaque even on black paper.
Thanks Neil. I hadn’t thought of trying Inktense on black paper – this could be a game changer!
A wonderful lively drawing.
Thanks Aletha, I had a lovely time hanging out and noodling 🙂
Oh yes.
Colour works very well on those ‘Scribbles’
Thanks Koz, really enjoyed noodling 😀