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Playing with Markers in Backgrounds
There are a gazillion ways to use wide tipped makers for backgrounds on your artwork. Typically you see me put backgrounds on some of my portraits AFTER I’ve drawn the portrait. I like cutting around the figure with the wide tip. It’s just fun. You can’t really see the edge of the portrait all the […]
Revisiting the Ultra-fine Tipped Pentel Artist’s Brush Sign Pen
This is sort of an “In-Context” post. You can read the text and see what I was thinking about. Yes I am having trouble getting out of “teacher-mode” and still making notes to myself about the various choices I’m making in art. (Well in life too.) I thought this portrait sketch was particularly contrary and […]
Lines: Achieving a Likeness with Different Approaches
I love working in a series just in an evening—sketching the same subject over and over to see how I can approach it with different tools, media, or even just something like line which is infinitely variable. I’ve posted three sketches of British actor Robert Morley in this post. I became a fan of his […]