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Tutorials / Art Tutorials / Mixed media, markers and pencils, Take 2

Fantasy Art Tutorials in the FARP Section

Mixed media, markers and pencils, Take 2 (Page 1/3)

By Liz Chesterman

Working with various markers and pencils can give interesting effects to your images. Here's just one example of working in this type of mixed media, page 1. (page 2) (page 3)

(The featured character Waspinator is copyright Mainframe Entertainment, Inc.)

I start with a quick sketch in Photoshop. I'll worry about transferring the design to paper later.

Then I went ahead and added some details, changing his positioning a little more.

I changed the position a bit, getting Waspy more centered on the page. I like the arm posiions much more in this one as well.

This is about the final here. I want to correct some details, so I do one more sketch.

Final sketch, with previous underneath on a lowered opacity.

Sketching on the computer is nice because it's so easy to make changes or edits without wasting supplies.

The final sketch, with the colors I'll be using for a background. Again, I want simple colors, because I'm going to be doing alot of work on the figure.

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Date	Name	Comment
10 Nov 2003	Teoga	Loading... Great Job I Like Your Style And Technique
2 Mar 2004	Bluefairy <s_dragonfairy@yah..	Loading... Hi nice cool
31 Mar 2004	Francisco Barrera	Loading... Hey listen i love what u did wiht waspinator he looks so really cool u know!!!!! I was wondering if can do other pictures of other predacons like rampage scorponok terrosaur quickstrike and the maximals as well anyways great job if u want to u can email me
26 Sep 2004	Karin F. Driel	Loading... So how did you transfer your computer sketch onto paper? Great artwork btw. Liz Chesterman replies: "I made a print on computer paper then used a light table to lightly sketch an outline."
19 Feb 2006	Caroline Jokiniemi	Loading... Good and very detailed discriptions. It would be great if you could do some instructions for example human skin and hair. You got some talent. Keep it up!
16 Jun 2006	Anonymous	Loading... Man I love that show. I think he is the best character in beast wars. Anyways I am really impressed and I think you are a better artist than even I am.
21 Oct 2006	Nycto	Loading... Good, now let's see sketches of Tarantulus and Sideways.

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