I took my glasses off to do this sketch. I was hoping that I would get a better sense of dark and light areas by obliterating details (as does my sight without glasses). I had some problems though, getting the whole composition to coalesce.
In addition to documenting the hotel room in which I stayed, I used pen and ink to get a variety of different tonal shades in this composition.
I used an ink pen to sketch this scene when I visited Sacramento. I got the straight lines straight enough and the trees wavy enough. The cars were a combination of the ink lines.
The hints of color were provided by ink pens. I varied the strokes to get different tones of black in the spaces between the fence uprights.
I spent most of my effort in this sketch, to the background. With different pen strokes, I textured and shaded the space between the flowers.
