Pen & Ink Drawing Workbook

by Alphonso Dunn

PEN AND INK DRAWING WORKBOOK is perfect for anyone looking for a book that provides lots of practice for developing and refining ink drawing skills and technique. It is appropriate for learners on all levels and is filled with over 100 engaging drills and exercises. The exercises in this comprehensive workbook are thoughtfully designed to take you from the essential elements like pen control, line consistency, basic strokes and variations to more advanced concepts such as, blending values, controlling gradations, shading compound forms, and rendering textures. It covers all the major pen and ink shading techniques including cross-hatching, stippling, scribbling, and more. In addition, there are 30 inspiring drawing exercises on a variety of subjects, which allows you to draw right inside the book. This book is the complementary workbook for PEN AND INK DRAWING: A SIMPLE GUIDE. However, it can still be used on its own as a general workbook for refining your skills and helping you to create stunning ink drawings with confidence!

Genres: Art, Drawing, Nonfiction, Reference

140 pages, Paperback

Published August 4, 2018

About the author

Alphonso Dunn was born in Jamaica and migrated to the United States at age 17. Inspired by ambitions for a career in medicine, he completed his undergraduate study in Applied Chemistry at William Paterson University; however, his enduring passion for drawing led him to earn a Master of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art. After completing his graduate study, he taught high school chemistry and various college art courses. Alphonso has since won number awards and his work can be found in numerous private collections in the US and worldwide. He is widely known for his popular YouTube channel and art instruction books, Pen & Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide and Pen & Ink Drawing Workbook. His YouTube channel has over 450,000 followers and features hundreds of free videos and tutorials on drawing, sketching, pen and ink, watercolor and more for learners at all levels. He currently resides in New Jersey.

Reviews

[Kaelin O'Reilly · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars. Grateful for this book for giving me some inspiration to try drawing with pen. I really enjoyed the exercises and Dunn's beautiful drawing style. It was very relaxing working in this book and I took my time with it. Good basics in strokes, shading and blending. Really my only issue was sometimes the instructions in the prompts were a little unclear but really didn't hinder my practice. Great book if you'd like to try out pen and ink drawing.

[Anscar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent instructive workbook. This complements the manual, allowing you put many of these concepts learned there into practice. Many of the exercises were quite repetitive to be honest, especially in the first third - but as the author stresses, repetition is the best way to learn and build muscle memory, so it was probably worth it in the end. Either way, I feel like I'm much more knowledgeable and confident in pen and ink drawing now (long my favourite art medium), so the book seems to have worked. Plus it is full of stunning line drawings as examples, which maybe one day I hope to be able to emulate!

[Stiobhard · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the idea of a workbook. I havent seen an art book that had one of these before. I have looked at these exercises more than the main book so far. I own so many books on pen and ink that it all seems pretty standard. I think Alphonso Dunn's drawing style is closer in style to Claudia Nice or Frank Lohan than some of the other books I have. I suppose that is fine though I prefer when a book includes the work of a variety of artists and styles not just the author's own work. But as an idea book this has possibilities.

[Ross C Berg · Rating 5 out of 5]

This has been incredibly useful and has improved my drawing a huge amount in a short amount of time. His youtube videos are really great too. I recommend this to any ink artists and ESPECIALLY to other tattoo artists

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Made my way through this workbook over the past couple of months, using a few pages as a drawing warm up. It was excellent and greatly expanded my pen and ink technique skill set. The author also has an excellent Youtube channel to keep learning from.

[Simón · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall simple explanations, for a basic and first aproach I think it's okay.
Besides, I would've liked something a bit more focused and extensive, the explanation book it's too short for it's price, and the line quality of many drawings and specially on the exercises of the workbook are quite not good, i think this is very important having in mind how crucial is the line on this kind of works, and specially if you have to reproduce it with exercises and your public it's supposed to be somone who don't know anything of it.
On the other hand, if you are searching for an how to ink drawing book to look at, I recommend "Rendering in pen and ink" from Watson Guptill, it's very complete.

[Jreader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yep, if you want to learn to draw I highly recommend this book rather than the $412 for a class and art kit which I spent for an introductory art class at a community college. The author is quite accomplished and gives many practice drawings encouraging novices by explaining 'don't underestimate copying'.

[Timothy Neesam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Alphonso Dunn’s pen and ink drawing workbook is an excellent companion to Dunn’s, original guide, which is the bible of pen and ink. This book is structured in building blocks of information, with room to practice. And that’s Dunn’s mantra: learn the lines and practice, practice, practice. It’s a useful book, though perhaps not as essential as Pen and Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide.

[Claire Sylvestre · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing workbook with helpful drawing techniques to practice textures, shading, values, humans, animals, movements, etc.
Very complete and great reminder for you draw things that are not familiar to you.
This will remain on my desk as a trusted companion.

[Patytrico · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excelent! The two book combo is really great, useful info, practice space, good explanations, examples a lot!

[Cesar del Pozo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Genial continuación para seguir aprendiendo de un artista

[Wendy Norman · Rating 5 out of 5]

All of his books and tutorials are fantastic. Reignited my passion for pen and ink drawing

[Laura Senpajytė · Rating 4 out of 5]

maybe too much emphasis on the shading part, would be nicer to have more exercises on drawing things