Creative Ink Drawing

by Paul Hogarth

In this companion volume to Creative Pencil Drawing, the world's leading reportorial draughstman offers the reader a totally fresh look at drawing with ink media. Stressing spontaneity and inventiveness, Paul Hogarth bases his approach on an intense observation of the world around him, showing the reader how to draw with traditional materials, plus up-to-date equipment and techniques. (From inside flap).

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

Paul Hogarth, OBE, RA (1917 - 2001) was an English artist and illustrator. He is best known for the cover drawings that he prepared in the 1980s for the Penguin edition of Graham Greene's books.

He was married to the Scottish painter Pat Douthwaite between 1963 and 1970.

Reviews

[Pat Loughery · Rating 2 out of 5]

This would be a good resource for the artist who wants to compare ink materials - more than half of the book is a materials resource. The final section gives very high level tips for drawing on location, drawing people, drawing architecture, etc... and those were broad enough that the book wasn't that much help to me.

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a how-to book, this is a bit dated. Don’t read it that way.

But as a catalogue of all the amazing things you can do with ink, it’s one of the best books I’ve read. Hogarth also has a fascinating perspective on making art as a professional and for the joy of it. He seems to have been a proto-urban sketcher back in his day, and his sections on sketching architecture and dealing with spectators are excellent.

More than anything, I take heart as an amateur in how much energy and life Hogarth shows even in sketches where his draftsmanship is not great or looks amateurish. His style was not photo realistic by any stretch, but the sketches are well worth looking at even today.

[Kandace · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting - focusing on the media of pen and ink with some context on how the artist approaches compositional strategies. Not as detailed as I would have preferred, though the images are intriguing. Always good to see how someone else draws in ink and in that sense I learned something!

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked up this book for the collection of Paul Hogarth's drawings and sketches. It also has presented some great between the lines information on the process of ink drawing. The topics that typical instruction books gloss over or omit altogether.

Hogarth discusses tools in elaborate detail (admittedly most of the newer tools like felt tips, fiber tips, and art pens is out of date, but the classic tools and inks are all still readily available). He also describes approaches that work for him and how he works on different subject matter.

If you are expecting a how-to with step-by-step instruction, you will be disappointed. But if you want to sit back and have an artist intimately describe their craft, then this is a perfect book.