Hot Pressed Paper, Soluble Ink - So Good Together! Urban Sketching Tutorial

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When I reach my goal I'll upgrade my sketching tutorials with a new camera and use my old camera to give an extra view point in my videos! Perhaps my face, perhaps my watercolour palette, or some close ups of my process!
Usually I use cold pressed paper to get those beautiful textures and marks on the page, but sometimes, especially when sketching loose and fast, I do love to use hot pressed paper.
You can check my channel (here) for a video I’ve done previously on the difference between hot and cold pressed paper - but in short, hot pressed paper is flat and slippy. Our ink, colours, fingers and everything can slip and slide more easily over it.
This leads to some fascinating and fun effects.
So, in today’s sketch I’ll use water soluble ink to create a loose and lively sketch of a panoramic city centre, and on top of that I’ll use water to produce tone and shape.
This is the kind of sketch you can easily do out and about with a travel brush or water brush and fountain pen. Then, if you want, bring home to add colour or leave as a beatiful monochromatic image.
Let me know in the comments what you think of this simple and quick sketching technique.
Do you often use hot pressed paper yourself? Will you give it a go and see if it suits you?
As an urban sketcher I’m always looking for shortcuts that mean I can grab a scene and sketch and draw it quickly, using a combination of ink and watercolour, but always simplifying and having fun. Being flexible and making my sketching techniques easy is key to this - making it more simple to be accurate, but also to bend and break rules and be experimental!
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[@basaksoy2919]

I liked it a lot. Thanks Toby !!🌸

[@user-hw7nq2er5f]

I am learning to be more “free” sketching…thank you.

[@FrancesFraser-wl1je]

Once again, thanks. Luv it.

[@TobySketchLoose]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@pascaletienne7734]

Super sketch 👍 thanks Toby!

[@TobySketchLoose]

Thanks to you too 👍

[@marshatomkins7989]

I had just been thinking of hot press. I’m very new to ink art, but I have all the papers and have begun to experiment. That hot press is definitely coming out next. Thank you!

[@TobySketchLoose]

Go for it!

[@stellaball7289]

The hot pressed paper looks fun. Definitely something i will try.
Those rooves would be interesting in your brown ink.

[@TobySketchLoose]

Great idea!

[@WaRe1992]

It is fascinating what you can do with only two "pens".
Waterbrush and fountain pen are the way to go for urban sketching.
How many line variations you can get from the fountain pen and how loosely you can sketch with it is just awesome.
The picture looks really great.

[@TobySketchLoose]

Thanks again for another great comment!

[@AndrewSpindler]

Amazing, simple, yet incredibly striking

[@TobySketchLoose]

thanks :)

[@delphinewood7519]

Awesome! “Up and down with a nice flow”…well said. Thank you.

[@TobySketchLoose]

You are so welcome!

[@Art-What..]

Top shelf 🪜

[@TobySketchLoose]

thank :D

[@marielouisedavidson4834]

Wonderful! really love this one! Thank you!

[@TobySketchLoose]

Glad you like it!

[@LionofJudah7771]

Looks great Toby!

[@TobySketchLoose]

Thanks!

[@sd8544]

Great example for beginners.
Hot press is natural choice I think for sketching in general as sketches are to be drawn quickly with free movements suggesting the scene in photograph or on site. Hot press paper offers the desired freehand movement where sketcher can focus on the scene/photograph rather than wrestling with the nib and texture dynamics.

[@TobySketchLoose]

Great points, as always!

[@perlofquist8385]

Is the ink Lamy Black?

[@TobySketchLoose]

Yes indeed

[@CG31Travel]

Where is this please?

[@TobySketchLoose]

This is, Romania, and I believe it is Sibiu town