Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!
Having finally realised that markers really are my medium of choice for The Art Making, I bought myself a set of 6 skin tone copic markers a few weeks back. I haven’t made much time to practise, but even so I’m pleased at how intuitive they making colouring. I can *draw* okay, when I put the effort in, but I’ve never been good with colour. These markers, though, seem to make that easy – I think it’s just the case that, as I said, I’ve finally figured out a medium that just *works* for my brain.
Lesson for people who want to art: don’t assume that art isn’t for you just because the first few media you try don’t ‘click’ with you. And if you loved colouring with markers/texters as a kid, maybe just embrace that 😉
Here’s my first two attempts. I was totally only paying attention to getting colour down and the feel of the markers in my hand, so I didn’t even do a sketch for the first one, I just leapt straight in (can you tell? ha). The second one I did do an undersketch, but I couldn’t find a pencil so I used bronze gel pen 😛 Which worked okay, but severely limited my ability to erase anything I got wrong and rework it.
I have this bizarre Thing with sketching, always have had, for as long as I can remember: the first part of the drawing I draw is always too big. I don’t know why my brain insists on starting at a certain scale and then scaling everything else down smaller, but anything, this is a Thing, so here we are.
You can see it in the second sketch: I started with her mouth & chin, and lo, it is too big for the rest of the drawing. Cover the top part of her face and look only at her mouth/chin. It looks pretty great. Cover her mouth/chin and look only at the rest. Looks pretty great. Together? Mm. She is a little mismatched and slightly disconcerting.
But anyway, considering I put no effort into the shapes and was focusing on the colour, I’m happy. Playing with markers is fun, yo!
Now I just need to go brush up on my actual sketching skills……..
And now, what have you made this week? Don’t forget to tag your contribution, or even better, leave a link in the comments!! I love seeing what inspiring things other people have made 🙂 🙂 🙂