Art pens and markers come in every color you can imagine and can be purchased in sets to save money. They vary in size (broad, fine, ultra-fine) and tip shape (point, flat) and are further distinguished by their colorant, which can be dye, ink or paint, and alcohol-, water- or solvent-based.
Graphic and fun
Graphic food, animals, cartoons
Portraits
Comic characters and pop culture
Faces and animals
Graphic Doodles
Cartoon Doodles
Anime Characters
Graphic Illustrator
Fashion Design
Quotes
Graphic
Practice Techniques
Using the technique sheet for chalk pastels, practice the techniques to improve your skills.
Techniques:
Flat Color- a solid block of color.
Blending- gradually mixing two or more colors together.
Hatching- texture or value created by drawing parallel lines closer together and further apart.
Crosshatching- texture or value created by drawing intersecting lines closer together and further apart.
Stippling- texture or value created by drawing dots closer together and further apart.
Shading- use any mark-making technique to create value (light to dark)
Optical Mixing- make dots with two different colors.
Materials:
Drawing Paper- white
Markers- Crayola, Sharpies
Pencil or Pens
Colorless Blender
Masking tape
Backboard
Tape all the way around your paper! And put your name and class period on the tape.
Directions:
Tape down your paper to a backboard. Tape it all the way around the paper. Be sure that you have evenly taped your border with the tape halfway on the paper and halfway on the board.
Write your name on the tape in sharpie.
In pencil, lightly sketch out your composition.
Start coloring the background areas first.
Then, color the foreground, detail areas last.
Store your drawing on the dry rack.