I'll take that as a complimenthans1976 wrote:Really nice, but somewhere, somehow I have a hard time believing you actually did this with a marker. Can you explain a bit about your techniques?
First the drawing is sketched out using a 3F pencil, I dont use HB because it is too dark and too soft. 3F leaves reasonably light marks and hard so stays almost a constant thinness. Then i use HB to define the final outlines.
Once I have my pencil sketch i then place another piece of paper over that and use a light box to follow around the pencil lines using a graphics pen either point 1 or 0.5. (nice thin crisp marks) This saves on rubbing out the pencil marks as 3F doesnt rub off as well because it is harder lead, usually leaves an imprint too and i always end up smudging or screwing up the paper
Then we move to the point 3 pen and begin to shade in the dark sections, point 3 i still pretty fine though so for the big areas i have a nice big pointed tip marker pen.
(click here to see tools)
Once finished inking I scan into the computer and place in photoshop. The layer is duplicated then i edit the threashold, so i just have black and white. This layer is then turned to 10% opacity and placed ontop of the orginal scan to crisp it up a little.
(click to see cross of scan and photoshoped version)
(click here to see random desk shot)
Hope you like them.
