Drawing for screenprinting

It seems like I’ve been permanently sat at my drawing board for the last month trying to get lots of drawings done for some new screen prints.  These are to add to the highly detailed urban series I started in 2014 but this time I’ve created more of the large-scale drawings rather than just the small pieces.  They’re approximately 500mm wide with variable heights.

I’m really pleased with them but being bigger means that they take MUCH longer to draw – and the pressure is on not to get anything too wrong!  Ho hum – I’m working my way through the Desert Island Discs back catalogue and have listened to Grayson Perry’s Reith Lectures again (which are just brilliant – I wish I was that eloquent!).

Here are some of the drawings finished and ready to be exposed onto screens ready for printing.  I use the Staedtler Pigment Liner 0.05 and the Copic Multi Liner 0.03 for drawing.  The Copic is the only one I have found in 0.03 and is brilliant as both nib and ink cartridge are easily replaceable (you get through a lot of nibs at this size).  However, the Staedtler is my favourite – I haven’t found a better disposable pen in 0.05mm (I think I’ve tried them all!) and now buy boxes of 20 at a time.