自从开始尝试用墨水笔画速写之后，我发现相比较铅笔，我更喜欢用墨水笔。这也挺奇怪的，在我的记忆中，以前我非常喜欢用铅笔来画速写，很少用钢笔或者墨水笔。铅笔易于修改。它的特点也在于石墨的延展性，所以可以在纸面上造成一种丰富的灰色的视觉效果。如果你使用的是2B或者以上的铅笔的话，其相对柔软的质地能够造成一些生动而丰富的笔触。
Since I started trying to sketch with ink pens, I found that I prefer ink pens to pencils at this stage, which is different from the old days. In my memory, I used to like to draw sketches with pencils, and rarely used pens or ink pens. As a material and a tool for drawing, a pencil is characterized by the ductility of graphite. This makes it easy to produce rich and subtle tones. If you use a 2B (or above 2B) pencil, its relatively soft quality is able to make some vivid strokes.
然而在用墨水笔画速写的时候，是不太可能在不损坏纸面的情况下进行修改的。这就造成了在画的过程中的“错误”都会留在画面中，成为画面的一部分。如果单独追求一种“准确”来说，这些“错误”是一种不完美。但是我发现，如果在画面里追求其他的东西，这些“错误”有可能会带来其他的灵感。
However, when using an ink pen to draw, it is not possible to erase the wrong lines without damaging the paper. So the errors in the process of drawing will be remained and become a part of the resultant drawing. If accuracy is the most important goal we approach in our drawing, these errors make the drawing imperfect. Otherwise, these "errors" may bring to us some other inspirations.
在画这张速写的时候，明显的是人物的头画得太大。所以可以看到我在之后又改了至少两次。这种层层叠叠，再加上衣服的条纹所达到的效果就是乍一眼看上去，这个人好像是一座石头山一样。而把一个人物形象与石头山的这种意向叠加在一起，则会产生一种别样的隐喻的意义。
In this sketch, one obvious “error” is that the head is definitely too big. You can tell from the lines that I tried twice to make it smaller. As a result, these lines, with the pattern on the striped blouse, make this figure like a rocky mountain. When a visual effect combines the idea of a rocky mountain with a human being, it can lead to a metaphorical reading and imagination.
当然，我认为铅笔也是一种很有趣的进行速写的工具。铅笔具有墨水笔所达不到的一些视觉效果。
Of course, pencils are a very good tool for sketching as well and they can produce some visual effects that pens cannot.
