Test Your Markers First by mondegrun on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

I ACTUALLY GOT SOME TIME TO DRAW LAST NIGHT

So, I bought a bunch of markers with some vouchers I got and yesterday was the first test of learning to blend.

And learning that you should test your damn markers first! These are all gray markers, but one of them was mostly black. Some of them are almost black. I learned the hard way to make a mark on a scrap piece of paper first, because blending gets pretty much impossible if you glorp on something super dark.

Despite all that, this was pretty fun. This marker set includes neutral, cool, and warm grays, so it opened up a lot of possibilities to experimenting with temperature in shadows.