{"id":21696,"date":"2017-02-16T06:20:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T11:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=21696"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:24:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:24:23","slug":"derwent-dark-wash-pencil-on-cheap-sketchbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/02\/16\/derwent-dark-wash-pencil-on-cheap-sketchbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Derwent Dark Wash Pencil on Cheap Sketchbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately, I’ve been curling up on the couch, partially watching television and doodling in a cheap sketchbook with Derwent Dark Wash Pencils<\/em> and some of the other booty I ordered from JetPens<\/a>. It’s hardly an optimal drawing arrangement — the light is bad, and I’m not seated before an easel or drafting table, but I’m having fun.<\/p>\n

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I don’t really plan these doodles. They are just doodles and I go where my pencil takes me which I will share here occasionally.<\/p>\n

Above is a fellow I’ve seen during my commute. He had terrific features as if he was chiseled from stone. I tried to draw from memory.<\/p>\n

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Lately, I’ve been curling up on the couch, partially watching television and doodling in a cheap sketchbook with Derwent Dark Wash Pencils and some of the other booty I ordered from JetPens. It’s hardly an optimal drawing arrangement — the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49],"tags":[158,310,3661,5,3663,25],"class_list":["post-21696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-came-from-the-sketchbook","tag-analog","tag-doodle","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5DW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25361,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/05\/23\/gasp-blam\/","url_meta":{"origin":21696,"position":0},"title":"Gasp…BLAM!!!","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Doodling in a small, store brand sketchbook that I bought from Dick Blick when it was on sale a couple years ago. 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