markers

Daily sketching is one of the best habits every artist should build.   The second important habit is sharing your work. It doesn't matter if it's a sketch, a work in progress, or finished artwork. Just share!

15-20 minute sketch using photo reference on Pinterest, markers, colored pencils, and acrylic pens on paper.

Original done in alcohol markers, transferred to Krita and added photo as background.

This was a gift for a special colleague who had already worked at my school for more than 20 years. I painted her with gouache and especially her blond hair gave me a headache. I‘ve never worked with this paint before. In the background I used special paper, charcoal and acrylic markers. Inside the card is a poem about her.

Expressing the imperfect lines that make up our perfect portraits. Done with alcohol markers.

This is one of 24 small presents for the children of my class. Every day a different child is allowed to open a small package in the shape of a house. There it will find a tiny wooden disc. Each wooden disc was painted with a different animal. The pictures were drawn with acrylic markers. They will also receive a small bottle with glitter and a german word that has to do with winter or christmas.

This is a drawing of the plant: Bromeliad regalia done with Copic markers and colored pencils.

Done with crappy markers :/

Happy Halloween! (Ah! I'm not ready!) For Inktober this year, I reimagined drawings from previous years, as paintings. I used acrylic inks and Posca markers.

Ink and markers on mixed media paper.

Quick Alice in Wonderland sketch outlined in pen and shaded with markers.

Markers randomly drawing on copy paper.

Prismacolor pencils and Tombow markers. :D

Done with markers, fineliner and coloured pencil.

Feeling anxious and flight-y... abstract background in acrylic inks to contrast with jewel-like dragonfly. Inks, Posca markers, Micron pens (for wings), Prismacolor colored pencils.

Doodling outside while visiting the local swimming pool. I used some bleedthrough from swatching markers as clothes.

Everyday with Aspergers is a storm of overwhelm - some good, some bad, and some painful. This was an "intuitive" painting with tons of layers, and no preplanning (what?!). I used acrylic paints, post markers, and pencils - I think it shows the exhaustion and overstimulation really well.

Me in blossom inspired clothes from a cute prompt on instagram. Bic pen and copic marker

Wanted to draw with pink. Bic pen and copic markers in my sketchbook :)

This is my newest OC Scarlet. I put the markers and their numbers in the corner. They are ARRTX markers. If you have any drawing tips i will gladly accept.

I really really really need to learn how to relax. Rest. Reset. I used acrylic inks and Posca markers.

I was so impressed by the confidence of that one puff of a dandelion growing right up in the peonies... I thought it deserved a painting. I used acrylic inks and Posca markers. Note: for some reason, every image is showing fluorescent greens? My file doesn't look like that, sorry.

Markers on Paper

Acrylic markers

A study of human skull in ink and markers. From sketchbook #1, January 2018.

Acrylic markers

The first page of my old sketchbook. (Pencil. Markers. 2009)

I printed my black and white zentangle drawing on marker paper and colored it with alcohol markers. At first it was a bit to garish with too much contrast, so I painted a warm grey over the whole piece. That gave me what I was looking for. Of course, THEN I completely undermined that with making a bunch of wild colored ones (two shown here) by playing with them in Photoshop. I shall be using this (along with my Zentangle koi posted la while back) for printing blank cards that we sell for charitable (mostly foodbanks) organizations.

Posca markers and Moleskine sketchbook

Acrylic inks, colored pencils, Posca markers