Urban landscape with Ink - Royal Talens
Urban landscape with Ink - Royal Talens

Urban landscape with ink

Let's create an urban landscape with ink! In this tutorial we will show you how to work with drawing ink together with acrylic ink for some colours.

What you need View steps

What you need

  • Talens Drawing Ink Black (700) and Sepia (416). Instead of Talens Drawing ink you can also use Amsterdam Acrylic ink.
  • Van Gogh watercolour paper
  • Van Gogh Watercolour brush
  • Amsterdam Acrylic Ink Naples yellow deep (223), Azo yellow deep (270), Brilliant blue (564)
  • Dip pen

Important! Clean your tools and your brush with water directly after use. This goes for all inks, because they dry out waterproof.

Step 1

Sketch

We start with a sketch of a street in Venice, Italy, to experiment with the drawing ink, especially depicting the water of the canal.

Step 2

Dilute some of the lines with water

After roughly drawing the buildings, you dilute some of the lines with water to achieve a shadow effect on the water. You just use the ink as if it were watercolour.

Step 3

Add some colour.

You could use watercolours, but here we used Amsterdam acrylic ink. The advantage of the Amsterdam acrylic ink is that it is also water resistant after drying. When you like to work in many layers, the layers with acrylic ink and the layers with drawing ink will not dilute and will stay the same.

Step 4

More colour

Add more colour and deepen the shadows near the boats on the canal.

Step 5

Add more details

At the end you add more details on the bridge and the brick of the houses with the brown drawing ink. This colour is great for adding an ancient patina to the buildings.

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