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Description
Carbon ink w/pen.
The center tree makes use of what Guptill calls the "lazy man's stroke". The Manga artists and some illustrators, like Jack Hamm, call it the zig-zag stroke. It provides a fluid way to lay in flat and graded tone for texture and color.

Add facility with pen hooks, and that's about as fancy as you need to get to use a pen for what it's worth. The corresponding brush techniques would be swabbing and chopping feathers/flicking feathers. These are shown in "Tree Bark."

No reason they can't all be used together. For example, one way to push the depth is to do the light tones with lazyman and hooks on the light side using pen and do the dark tones by swabbing and chopping feathers with brush on the dark side.

Description
Carbon ink w/pen.
The center tree makes use of what Guptill calls the "lazy man's stroke". The Manga artists and some illustrators, like Jack Hamm, call it the zig-zag stroke. It provides a fluid way to lay in flat and graded tone for texture and color.

Add facility with pen hooks, and that's about as fancy as you need to get to use a pen for what it's worth. The corresponding brush techniques would be swabbing and chopping feathers/flicking feathers. These are shown in "Tree Bark."

No reason they can't all be used together. For example, one way to push the depth is to do the light tones with lazyman and hooks on the light side using pen and do the dark tones by swabbing and chopping feathers with brush on the dark side.