Reddit reviews Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor

my favortie book is this. it will help you alot.

but first sketch the drawing. then add sketch line shading, thinking about where the light is coming from. then felt pen color basically using your lightest colors. then add the darker colors of the same hue in the shaded areas if you use three shades of a color it looks great. you will be surprised how fast the drawing will POP off the page once you follow these steps. start simple. like drawing a piece of square wood. ie.

1. draw shape of wood, like a 2x4 or something.
   
2. add grain lines. maybe a knot or two.
   
3. add hatch lines in the darker side of the wood board.
   
4. color the whole thing with a light brown tone.
   
5. color the darkest side with a dark brown. and the semi shady side with a medium brown.
   
   lastly. if you want practice. use trace, and and underlay of some cool simple image you want to copy. then after you get the basic form, go to town on the trace with the colors. will give you a good start and be really rewarding when you see a nice image of a house or car or animal, whatever. the skill or rendering a good proportioned sketch will take time.

Maybe with luck! I struggle with an additional language barrier, since I'm in the Netherlands and most of these books have never been translated and published in Dutch. The odds of finding them in a local thrift shop are minute.

I love Linda Kemp, Nita Engle, David Bellamy and Claudia Nice.

My main tip for any book you encounter; if you don't like the style the instructing artist works in, leave it be. Pretty much every book repeats the basics, beyond maybe your first 1-2 books, every new book should be by an artist whose work is something you admire and has an aspect you want to emulate.