I spent three days on the Monterey peninsula, and I forgot to bring my sketching supplies along. That turned out to be a good thing, because I discovered a great resource—Imagine art supplies in Pacific Grove.

Here are stages in my sketch of
El Torito, a Mexican Restaurant in Cannery row.

My first strokes, in red aquarelle pencil, didn’t please me, so I used green to fix it. I used this very quick pencil layout to guide my ink drawing, using a Micron 08 for the thin lines and a Faber-Castell B (Brush) pen for the bold black accents. More color was applied.

 The final sketch has water-brush effects and a few details
created with a uniball Signo opaque white pen.