some tree bark

This week we have returned to camping at Cagle in the Sam Houston National Forest. Sitting under the camper’s awning, the differences in these nearby trees’ bark caught my eye. The left one is a sweet gum tree and the right one, a long-leaf pine.

Sketched with a seldom-used Pentel Pocketbrush Pen that came with sepia ink. I had hoped that the ink would be waterproof like the black version of this pen but it is not. For this sketch, that works fine — I worked the washes with just a bit of water.

UPDATE: looking closer into the canopy above, I now think this pine is a Loblolly; a Long-leaf pine is about 10’ away.