A3 Sketchbook - Dip Pen and wash.

Detail, detail, detail…..love it. And I can smell the pipe smoke.

Your characters are always wonderfully crafted

Great detail Lewis and marvellous characterful faces.

Well these dip pens are a firm favourite with me, although I do make more splatters and blobs, unlike your excellent drawing Lew!

Great characters, Lewis - I like both versions, although there’s something especially appealing about monochrome.

Dip pens do add character. Splendid drawing.

Superb Lew , so good to see both versions together. Sometimes the bold method are still the best , can’t imagine the heath and safety rules ,if they had dip pens and ink in the class rooms these days.

Cracking selection of weird and wonderful characters Lew!

I think Sylvia has put her finger on it. It isn't just the wonderful characters you dream up, but also the detail you put in the background that brings the scene to life.

Great start to the New Year Lew.

Love the added colour washes. Great characters full of interest and marvellous detail Lewis.

Fantastic Lewis!

Oh a dip pen 😏 love it brilliant Lewis

Wonderful characters, Lewis - super work!

What great characters Lewis.

Thank you everybody for your great response.

Excellent. Just love spending time looking around your drawings taking in all the little details!

I love your story telling Lewis……superb!

Gorgeous characters Lewis.

Great characters as usual from yourself Lewis. Both the monochrome and painted versions are extremely good, and especially like the pompous pipe smoking chap !!

Great work again - I've not often worked with pen, ink and colour in recent years, but once I did, and I think you're right that "real" ink, black, and sticky, and intense, drying to a hard sheen, DOES take washes better than disposable pigment ink pens: I bought myself a good, big bottle of Daler Rowney Kandahar drawing ink just before Christmas - from Cult Pens (i.e. it seemed to arrive half an hour after I'd ordered it!): I haven't used my dip pens since my Mum died - every year, I'd do her a birthday card, and a Christmas card, always using pen and ink, with a splash of watercolour or acrylic - she was obsessively fond of pigs, so they often featured..... And I'm going to haul them out again. The pens, not the pigs. Looking forward to seeing more of your proper ink and proper pen work in '22!

Lewis these are splendid. Real fun to look at and beautifully rendered.

Great drawings Lewis, love your work - looks very good with colour.

Another wee beaut of an eyecatcher , Lewis ,, how does it start - a vivid imagination or plenty of time spent observing your fellow life travelers ? or is it a combination ?

Bags of character, Lewis, Love it!

Thanks again to all for your great comments and observations, it's all very motivating.

Always SOOOOOO good Lewis!

Great.