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A little oilstudy of some lemons and an orange. Painted on small canvaspanel.

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Headbanging - in the sketchbook.

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Fading. An ink drawing using baskethatching (a variant of crosshatching).

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A model study on gray paper. Model reference from @diana_jean_o at Insta.

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Another portrait from the sketchbook during the summer. If you recognize her, yes I'm rewatching old CSI-episodes, lol.

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Pencil study portrait of Beatrice. I had not done something in graphite for long, so I thought it was time.

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Sketching with a couple of Platinum fountain pens I borrowed from a friend for an upcoming review (my first, yay)! Also, having a cup of tea - special 3 (Lapsang Souchong mixed with Earl grey)

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WIP oilpainting of my daughter in backlight. Lots of work left, but the basic idea is there. Very different from my many black and white drawings ;)

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Playing around in the sketchbook again. This is not perfect, but it is not supposed to be ;) I'm trying to figure out how to capture my favourite metal singers in there most powerful moments. Do you see who it is?

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Some people on the intrawebs have asked to see closeups of my ink technique. So here are a few images of one might call baskethatching, or crosshatching. A description: I make small patches with short lines of different width and a different amount. In the light parts it is more important to be consistent, and vary the angle of the lines. When going the absolute last tone to white, I often use a very thin almost dried out pen. It's a pain if you make a blob of ink in the wrong place in the last moments of a drawing!

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Ink portrait of a person on reddit.com. Although my take on it - with the light. This… was a struggle. It has gone through several alterations. Today I felt I had to let it go and call it finished. Media: Fountain Pens, fineliners, technical pens and ink on Canson Bristol XL paper - size A3.

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Portraitsketch of "Octavia of the Julii" (played by Kerry Condon) from the show Rome. I liked and wanted to catch the rimlight in the scene. If you Swipe the last image is the rough sketch in graphite pencil on printer paper. Mixed media - Platinum brushpen, Uniball Signo White, FC Plychromos pencils - on Clairefontaine Paint On Gris A4 paper. I might have used a Platinum Preppy to, I can't remember ;)

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Portrait of smoking man. Portrait drawn in late 2018. Using Platinum Carbon Deskpen and Platinum Carbon Black in a Leuchtturm Large Sketchbook.

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The tree I always been fascinated by the form of trees. Created with dip pen + ink, and Pigma micron fineliners. On Clairefontain Paint On paper in A3 size.

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"Ascension". Inkdrawing with fineliners from Sakura and Staedtler on A3 Büngers drawingpaper. One more "rescued" from the drawer.

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An inkdrawing of a girl with her hair in the wind. I gave up on this painting in the summer, but wanted to rescue it. I liked playing with drawing the hair.

Reference id from redditgetsdrawn, an old post there.

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I wonder...

...if coloured pencils are for me. I like the ide of them, but whenever I work with them they feel like my enemy.

This is a portrait from redditgetsdrawn. Done mostly with coloured pencils (without colour, brand FB Polychromos) on toned paper from Claire Fontaine.