Description: Tina Koyama's blog of daily urban sketches.
Urban sketching: It's not a hobby; it's a lifestyle.
5/2/23 black Stillman & Birn Nova sketchbook If you follow me on Instagram , you may have seen that I made these sketches with a new set of Faber-Castell Black Edition colored pencils . The entire range in this collection is pastel tints ideally used on darker papers. You’ll see a full review of the pencils soon, but before that, I wanted to write a few thoughts about sketching light on dark.
The process of drawing only the lights is not new to me. For the past few winters, I’ve had a ton of mind-boggling fun making nocturne sketches , almost always with white (or variations of white) on black paper. I’ve also made some skyscapitos at dusk on a base of dark blue paper. This new set of pencils, however, has pushed me to think more about color and light simultaneously on dark-colored papers.