Moche Warrior Pot / British Museum

I had this idea to try a new technique for me - pencil, liner, pencil, ink - just to see what kind of texture and finish it would create.

And when it comes to finding objects to draw, nothing inspires me more than scrolling through online museum collections. This time I chose this beautiful Moche Warrior Pot (200-600 CE) from the British Museum collection. I've always been drawn to South American history, artefacts and visual culture, so I'll take any excuse to learn more about it through drawing.

The technique itself was ... interesting. In the end, I don't think it worked quite as well as I hoped - the ink doesn't glide very smoothly over coloured pencil, which makes it difficult and uneven to colour in. Still, that's part of the process, and experimentation is half the fun of sketchbook practice anyway. Every drawing teaches you something.