Monday, January 09, 2012

Markers anyone????

Happy New Year!

It was good to go home for the holidays.  My husband and my four dogs made the journey to Fremont to spend the holiday with my sister and brother-in-law.   A good time was had by all.  Santa was very good to me too!  During my visit, my sister and I drove up to Berkeley to Dick Blick art store.  WOW was I impressed.  The store was so large and there was so much eye candy, that I was overwhelmed.  But once I calmed down, I was able to load up my shopping cart with lots of art supplies.

While at Dick Blick I bought more Copic Sketch Markers to add to my growing collection.  I only need 76 Copic Sketch Markers and I'll have them all.  This year I plan to do portraits and thought
Copic Sketch Markers would be perfect.

I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos on people using copics to draw portraits and Manga characters. Not really familiar with these Japanese Comic characters, but after seeing a lot of YouTube videos I got the general idea of how they were drawn.  



This is my first attempt at a Manga girl.   I went from this to my Manga girl with purple hair.  I really learned a lot about shading of faces and skin. 






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