#marker tutorial

[drawingrosesonneptune]

Marker Tutorial

(This is how I do it, at least)

Alternate tutorial with more explanations - and additional advice - under the cut:

Some variants on the same principles:

In lineart, varying line weight can add a lot of dimension to the piece and direct a viewer's eye. Thicker lines stand out more, so (for instance) if your subject is rendered in thinner lines than something in the background, that background element will stand out most.

Don't be afraid to go over some of the lines you've already laid down with a thicker pen. (Practice is advised, however.)

Always ALWAYS test your new markers before you put them to the piece you're working on. Don't rely on the label; a lot of markers are significantly lighter or darker than the color swatch on their lid.

Using multiple colors to fill in something will give it a more lifelike result. Experiment!

Adding highlights with a different medium (colored pencil, gel pen, gouache, paint, etc.) can make a huge difference. Try it out!

If you are using paper: Put another paper beneath the one you're working on to protect whatever is beneath it. Marker bleeds like nothing else, and if you're working in a sketchbook, you are likely to stain the page beneath your WIP.

[art-tnt]

Coloring Water with Copics by Stephen Ward

[junebug-is-bugging-you]

Marker shading/blending tutorial

A quick tutorial of how I shade and blend with my alcohol markers! Told ya I’d make one

Step 1 - Base color! Get your base color down and filled in!

Step 2 - More base color? What?

First make sure the area isn’t wet. If it’s still wait, wait a little bit for the ink to settle. Then take your base color again, and fill in the area you’re shading.

Step 3 - Finally, I can grab a different marker

Grab a darker color for the area you’re going to shade, and put that down on top of the part you just shaded. Don’t go as far as you did before.

Step 4 - Dammit I need the base color again?!

Go over with the base color once again, focusing it on the dark color and where the dark color meets the base color. Keep going until blended and then….

Voila! Beautifully shaded

Hope this helped!

[nattosoup]

🐸How to Draw and Color a Frog🐸 Oh man, I really enjoyed this livestream!  I love frogs, and used to keep frogs and newts as a teenager, so spending time marking a cutie like this one is time well spent!  And doing it with you guys, as a live stream, was most excellent!  I love how this lil cutie turned out- the depths of the greens really captures how shiny its skin was!  I hope you guys enjoy this marker tutorial- and if there are any other animals you'd like to draw and marker together, lemme know!

[artbyifer]

Copic Basics with Art By Ifer

Ifer is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Copic Basics with Art by Ifer Time: Mar 28, 2020 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/474168147 Meeting ID: 474 168 147

I’ll be going over anatomy of a Copic marker, what the colour code means, the difference between original/sketch/ciao markers, and different shading methods. Free Zoom only allows 40 minutes to a meeting, so It’ll be whatever I can fit in that time period.

Normally I’d charge a set amount for a class, but everyone’s stuck at home and providing their own materials for now, so it’s pay what you want min $0. You can find me at Ko-fi, Patreon, or Paypal.

Materials if you want to follow along:

I’ll be using two pieces of cardstock printed like this:

3+ copic markers with brush tips (recommend you have a light a medium and a dark. these can be and mix of colours or all the same colour, so long as they are significantly different from eachother)

1 copic colourless blender

a piece of plastic

a white pencil crayon, marker, gel pen, paint, etc

a piece of textured fabric

a spray bottle with alcohol in it

[reeartworks]

How I paint with markers smoothly! hope you enjoy this video tutorial :)

https://youtu.be/BBA2TSJweHc

[krlnaart]

[dandedoodles]

EDIT: this post really blew up for me! If you're into my work consider following me here as I start to upload more of my back log! Or even on Instagram, Dandedoodles, where everything is up to date!

So I was asked to make a slime tutorial!

1) start with your lines! Remember to be fluid here, keep things organic and rounded. This will help when you start coloring!

2) Now when I color slime I choose to line in color as well as it helps create that “clear” or “jello-like” look later on.

3) I started by picking my color set! I find that having a five color set usually helps me create a smooth, goopy transition with my markers but that’s just me! Now I always start with my darkest color trying to make the centers. Ever have Gushers? Imagine you’re making that. And that’s where all your main bits are going to be. Whether they’re the biggest overlaps in body parts or where your slime’s innards are going to be.

4) Here’s where you start establishing shadows that aren’t primarily due to overlap or innards!

5) Start to round out your shadows and your centers from panel 3.

6) Continue to follow that liquid rounded feeling of your shading. Here is probably where you’ll start to reach the edges of your lines.

7) Finish with your colors and leave your established lighted areas pretty pale.

8) I feel like this could be entirely optional depending on taste but it looks really clean to me. So here I blend from darker colors to lighter colors using my colorless blender. Careful though, depending on how wet your piece is you could have some bleeding really take over your lines here.

9) Fill in any other spaces here! I.E.) clothes, facial details, markings, accessories, etc.

10) I use the Gelly Roll pens for all my high lighting but really a nice gel pen will get the job done. Again, product used is based on artist comfort in my opinion. I also usually clean up my lines in this stage as there was bleeding that occurred in the colorless blending stage!

I hope to do video tutorials in the future, but hopefully this helps out the way it needs to!

NOTES: The colors I used were from the Prismacolor Premier set and were- ☆PM-39 ☆PB-40 ☆PM-48 ☆PB-134 ☆Sky Light Blue (I unfortunately could not find the number for this one) ☆PB-121 (my colorless blender) ☆PM-8 (Pink) ☆ then black

My liners were from the 20 count Triplus Fineliner set (they’re pretty well priced at Michael’s and Target but at Michael’s you can usually use a 40% coupon on them!)

Then my highlight gel pen was the wonderful Gelly Roll pen! They’re pretty cheap and you can find them at most craft stores and online for about the same price across the board!