I actually completed an entire drawing without resorting to using an ink wash to soften my scribbly linework. If I could do this one over, I’d probably keep the treeline lighter and make the sunflower less “solid” looking. My goal was to create lights, darks, and grays with hatching and cross hatching. I created this drawing following a course by artist Philip Harris on the Domestika website.

Both are 9″ x 12″, Indigraph pen and ink on Canson multimedia paper

I tried another but realized at some point I wasn’t going to pull it off without an ink wash, so out came the water and brush.