Hooray! my new brush pen finally arrived!
I've been trying it out...

Here's a doodle of figures drawn from imagination based on yesterday's café sketching, and below not based on anything really :-)
The squared paper is unfortunate - it's my notebook on my desk at work that I did these. 

I sat in a café on the way to work the other morning and drew some road workers. Apart from the fact that my mind is not generally up to speed at that time of the morning, it's a real challenge to try and get something that looks correct. It's nevertheless a good exercise because it builds your visual memory...

An exhibit from the Guimet Museum in Paris. Lots of amazing Asian art.

Hey! Can you pass me the pencil...?

Doodling while I should be working...

This morning at a café - I'm trying to practice drawing people...not easy!

I was amazed how long she let me draw her for...!

Got the early train at the beginning of last week. Time for a bit of sketching!
 

A couple of sketches with a fibre tip pen. The one on the left has very controlled hatching. Thought has gone into the direction of the shading to describe the shapes with economy. The second one was done standing on a wet pavement on a cold February night and is much less controlled. Large areas of flat tone are not so easy to produce with a pen as crosshatching can easily become heavy-looking.

In response to a request for info on what I use to draw with, here are a few of my favourite drawing items :

1 Rotring Tikky Graphics fibre tips : good all-purpose pens. I use a 0.5 and a 0.3mm.
2 Pentel Sign Pens : These have a thicker nib but at the same time it is also 'dry' enough and hard enough to be able to achieve a wide variety of line weights depending on the pressure you apply. Fine light strokes are possible with these pens.
3 UniPin 0.5mm : These are great pens, especially for finer detailing. I used them for the Saint Eustache church drawing that I posted last week. They are suitable for more absorbant paper as they don't bleed so much.
4 Derwent Graphic pencils : These are my favourite graphite pencils that I've been using for a number of years. They allow the build up of layers for a richness of tone.
5 Derwent Sketching pencils : I use these for quick loose drawing at a larger scale. I use an HB, a 2B and a 4B.
6 Lyra Rembrandt : I include these because I intend to try them out next time I do Life Drawing. A bit like charcoal pencils - they will help to loosen my style a bit...
What are your favourite materials? Is there something you can recommend that I try out?

On a slightly different theme, here's a Coelocanth (is that how you spell it?) from the Natural History Museum in London. Dip pen and sepia ink.