[kingdok]

Hello everyone! Thanks for welcoming me into the community. Even after looking at a few posts I can tell I'm going to learn a lot from you people.

For starters, does anyone have any useful tricks/techniques when it comes to toning drawings with cool grey markers? I try, but am often less than pleased with the results. I'll start by laying down some light foundation value and add darker ones on top, finishing with white-out highlights. Are there better ways of doing this? Do you ever mask off areas, and if so, with what? Do you freehand your marker strokes or use guides, or both? For all I know there may be a less messy way to achieve a similiar effect in Photoshop.

I'm always wowed by the technique when I see it done right. I guess it all boils down to the artist's understanding of light and shadow. Mine's something like this : "If an object is light on one side it's dark on the other, and if you can swing it, hinting at a third lightsource looks cool." If anyone knows of good books on the subject please don't hesitate to mention them as well.

Thanking you in advance!

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-Paul Richards

[Lukias]

Go to Vortx site. Sorry havn't got his address, someone will post it. He's got markers down, if you haven't seen his stuff, then you'll be blown away.

[TheMilkMan]

this guy has the art of drawing markers down . I use the technique but sad to say my site is not up so nothing to show you right now..anyways here are some good guys to look at
www.artbyfeng.com www.dchaing.com ( he has a tutorial about the technique somewhere in robotica check it out very useful!! look under studio tips I think.

Anyways the way I do it is a little diffrent then vortex and chaing. I use a wide spectrum of Tombo markers ..greys ( why dont more people use these? ) anyways they are great I use the sharp end to do a loose scetch and then go in and tighten the drawing. I would use a cool grey if you are going to scan the drawing so you can color it. dchaing has a good example better then one I could provide so go look at his site.

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[SporQ]

edit: im a stupid double poster

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[bitz]

Very cool Thanks for that link to Doug's site MilkMan. It laid out alot of details for me.

Now if someone would just comment a good book for lights and shadows...

Onward!

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bitz