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God damn it, what kind of markers do you use??
I’LL GLADLY TELL YA. Bulk of the work is done by cheapo stuff cos that’s the life I’m about. I believe this is everything used in that post... save maybe some minor liner pens. Pictured:
Prismacolor Premier dual-tipped markers (fine/brush) in Black, and Scarlet Lake. The black (and cool grey) prismas I picked up are just, star eyes, my favorite thing I’ve used since I ditched pencils for ballpoint pens. I use the brush end exclusively. My only wish is that it left a stronger, fuller black on the regular ol’ copy paper I’m using. It gets a bit patchy when stretched too far. (i picked up some plain sharpies and fat chisel tip no-name markers to combat this in the future). I wasn’t satisfied with the Scarlet Lake in this picture - probably because the red was of a different.. tone than the hightlighter’s red. Worked to help make the sharp shadows on the tie and lapels in a pinch.
Definitely gonna grab a darker grey to complement the 30% I picked up and also adore.
Zebra M301 .5mm mech pencil // Pentel Graphgear 500 (PG523) .3mm mech pencil -- i’m used to .7 so the smaller sized leads are caaandy to work with. Pencil in general is a bit annoying to me, I can tell I Use It Differently compared to fine n fancy free like with ballpoints. Plus, the smudging. UGH. The Pentel high polymer eraser, often found nearby the zebra pens, is a godsend. It gets into the lil grooves in your strokes and digs out graphite so much better than the plain cap erasers I’m used to. I’d like to pick up something similar in a stick form, might do better to get into real tiny spaces when you wanna keep pencil lines.
Gelly Roll 08 Sakura white gel pen, picked up at Hobby Lobby in a pack of three. So worth it, I’ve wanted a white gel pen for shines n stuff for yearsssss. It’s not great at laying down perfect white on bold color, unfortunate, but works alright if you let layers dry and go back over em. One of my fave tricks in that pic, most visible on the tie/lapels, was to cut a highlight in with this pen and then color over top of the white with yellow. That’s also how I got the colored lines in the wings.
Would happily listen to reccs for a “better” white gel pen if anybody knows any.
Pen Gear / WalMart Retractable highlighters - these make up the bulk of the color, found em in the back to school area in the past month, in a square-prism shaped package. they have a very weird habit of scraping up their own ink if you try and do a second layer while the paper’s wet??? Smell terrible. I love them. (the grey BG circle in the luke pic was originally blue, but came out a weird.. kinda nasty teal in the photo so I just used Color Splash in my editing app to desaturate it.)
