msterdam A Sketchbook Drawinas from my, fivst “ip to Amsterdam! Enjoy! Natalie jour ioatWRITTEN AND DRAWN BY NATALIE “TALLY” NOURIGAT COMICS monkeybraincomics.com AMSTERDAM SKETCHBOOK copyright © 2014 Natalie Nourigat. All rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be reproduced or ‘transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, ‘or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the permission in writing ‘rom Monkeybrain, Inc. Names, characters, places and incidents featured inthis publication either are a product of the author's imagination or are fictious. Any resemblence to actual persons living. or dead, events, or locales, without satiric intent, is coincidentalT's a new sketchbook, $0 the first order of business is Testing my dcaning tools on the paper. qn” —T Platinum “carbon Pen” for Fine lines and hatching, Pentel pocket brush pen for thick lines, Spot blacks, and some textures These tools work with almost all papers, but sometimes they can loleed, which Makes my line act look fuzzy and is really frustrating, Luckily, this paper Sears perfectly capotle of handling it!Next vp: Kuretake SAINPEN + ink wash* The danger here istne paper buckling with a water wash, but this sketchbook holds up pretty well. _ Sa _ *L added 10 drops of Indio. ink to a Pentel aquash waterorush een DB Win markers (imnilac+to Copic markers) oO Atimes out of 10, these alcchol-based mackecs Deed +nrough tne paper in my Sketchbooks, mi and ruin subsequent pages. This paper tokes colors: them perfectty, though, even allowing me 2-3 posses with no bleed onthe next page! ~ Dass verre Dbieu glacier [loge proton Test “enuas Ca for corrections and effects Nice — +nis sketchbook can handle everything, Tve got! Were ap0d to a9.SKETCHING ON THe TRAIN: I was Jus Teer these windows | SY | ins Ahinkivg tet! ave at the EXACT The View is blocked for anyore S2°- 5 el Oh oma ores orney REAL windenslis!! L wasn't expenting to vealliy see any, ruck less te see a dozen from the tain!Lite Drawina AROUND DowNTOwN AMSTERDAM One of my favorite ways 40 drow is by setting up in public and drawing people who Tsee going past Tlook for cafés with window seots Facing, streets wrtn lots of foot +caffic — somewhere I con sit discretely for a longtime and hove a clear view of lots of interesting people! Che obsolute BEST is when there's a lous stop or Crosswialk direct, across the street from me— the people rotate but they stand still fora minute o¢-two.)Wa _ of 3 3 , ~ a3 : : ‘ > ty at emt SOP No cry Z|2. He Xi 7 fey =T like looking for trends in women’s outfits. Sometimes ture, ose style veces L feel L could guil oF in my own wacdrobe. Here ore two T was alle to pick out: Ayiorroe Trick knit —> gunaiosses > reodioand wap hae Blozer or parka. —> yo 2 oes Flowy menswear Gee Saver —> yi Suvuper shoct \dhoek R F These exock boots. U : g \ a = kn Tdon't know wil : Sn a evorupne is getting, Likewise, when L saw this outfit on a stufish young, Woman, I feared foc the + T hope Anak no 0) post of this outfit \ becomes somettri = pork tare vest Lim pressured s Ah : : into wearing, ty e—seqvined comourbas x } 7 E Minn Mouse skier — tights Ss I WANT THAT FLOPPY BLACK FELT HAT THAT EVERYONE HASABOUT THE CREATOR NATALIE "TALLY" NOURIGAT is a cartoonist from Portland, Oregon. You may know her from Between Gears (Image Comics), /t Girl & The Atomics (Image Comics), A Boy & A Girl (Oni Press), or her current webcomic Home Is Where The Internet Is. Natalie loves traveling, meeting new people, and drawing late into the night. She is currently living in Paris and exploring other parts of Europe whenever possible. Follow her on Twitter @Tallychyck. ° monkeybrain COMICS monkeybraincomics.com