Edited To Add: Oops, yeah, helps if I include the photo, doesn’t it >.< 😀
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!
I do have another cake to post, but I’ll leave that for next week so it’s not ALL CAKE EVERY MONDAY here, m’kay? 🙂
So this week you get random practise drawings again. Y’all, I am seriously LOVING my pretty, beautiful Copic markers. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE. They are just a pleasure to use, and it makes me so happy, so even though I know I’m not, like, the world’s best artist (I’m passable, yes, but I’m not mega-talented or anything), it’s just a genuine delight to sit down and play with them.
BUT.
I tried to do a galaxy a week or so ago? It was super fun and satisfying to play with the colours, but the result was suuuuuper streaky. And I got to wondering, because I’d had other dark colours streak like that too (the suit in the third image here, for e.g.) and Copics are not really supposed to do that?
So I investigated. Was this a Me Thing, something I was doing wrong? User error, as it were? Or was there, perhaps, something wrong with the type of paper I was using (a cheap marker paper from Officeworks, the only one I can buy in-person without visiting a specialty art store)?
The internet was undecided, according to my research: possibly it was my paper, but more likely it was my technique. This is fair, since I am very new at Copicing, but I thought I’d try the paper that All The Art People Recommend anyway, just in case. (It’s X-press It blending card, fwiw.)
Yeah, it was the paper. Bwa ha. (Yes, okay, feeling a lil bit smug here :D)
But seriously, check out the difference between the regular marker paper (bottom) and the proper blending card (top). And, size difference aside, I was like three billion percent less picky when I was playing around on the blending card, literally just slapping colours down – but I could, and it worked, because the proper blending card made it EASY.
(And to clarify, the ‘water marks’ on the small one are deliberate – I was playing around with dropping blender solvent on it for Effect, ha.)
So yeah, now I want to redo that other illustration with the streaky suit 😀
Anyway. That’s me for this week.
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 🙂 🙂 🙂