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Why does she have an extra pair of boobs growing on her behind? I can't really make sense out of that part of her anatomy.
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Hi Mario, small question if that's okay with you.
When I play around with my markers I tend to have a pretty harsh transition from say using Warm grey 0 to 1, it would look similar to the shadow you have on her right leg (our left) near the crotch area. So my question was how you can get that smoother type as you have for example on her kneecaps? Been playing with thinner and thicker types of paper but it doesn't really make that much a difference. Could the grain of the paper also affect this?
Hope you'd be happy to chat about this!
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Paper can have some affect on how the markers react. from personal experience I've found that the thinner the paper, the better it takes the markers because it doesn't continuously absorb the ink as thicker papers can do. I like using borden & Riley bleed proof paper. thats just my preference though because i really like working on a smooth surface, and the paper isn't too thick. I've also used strathmore smooth drawing paper, but i've settled on the B&R. lots of artists do great work on thicker paper though, I think chris stevens works on strathmore 500 bristol which is a pretty thick paper, and he does amazing work.
the trick with markers, at least for how i use them, is to treat them as if you were working in water colors. wet on wet. the area your introducing a new value to, should be well saturated . in this image i've let the marker dry a bit in order to get a harsher line for the shadows. but in other areas where there's a smoother gradation, i've worked quickly, saturating the area with a lighter value first, and while it's still wet, add in the next so that the one color blends itself into the previous one. thats really the key to smooth blending of different values. you want to play with different levels of dryness, absorbtion, and how quickly or slowly you apply the markers. all that determines how the paper will take the markers. Hope that helps
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Hey Mario, thanks for the advice! Very kind of you to make such a detailed post and even more so to take time to write one. I wanted to let you know that despite my late response I've been putting it to good use. As far as applications go, I've been using them like watercolor in a sense and aspecially different types of paper gave me various effects. My big problem still is trying to give an area the same tone throughout and since I've only drawn on 8x11 with these markers I dread to think how I will ever do that on bigger size paper. But it's coming together slowly! Wanted to thank you once again for your insight!
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no problem. for large areas you really need your marker to be filled with enough ink to fill the space your working in. or you can try and plan it out so that you work from light to dark and each marker is filled enough to where it saturates the paper, that way you get the blending of the different values without any of the blotchyness that can com from markers that are allowed to dry.
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How do you blend the copics to get them so smooth and also the textured areas? Amazing
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have to treat the markers like water color. get the area saturated enough where the next darker tone blends out into the lighter one
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One last question. (and thanks for the answers to the others as well) what type of paper do you use?
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i use strathmore drawing paper, but i prefer borden & riley bleed proof paper, don't use it much because of how bright white it is. I do find that the thinner the paper is, the better it takes the markers. if it's just for practice, i'd suggest even using printer/copy paper, takes the markers really well .
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I shall do that. Thanks!!!
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Awesome man
Btw, what kinda paper do youuse for these pieces?
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thanks, strathmore drawing paper
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No problem 
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I find it tough to work on bristol with markers, some guys can do it really well, but i find that a thinner paper takes them a lot more evenly. thicker papers tend to just keep absorbing the ink. I like strathmore, and borden & rileys bleed proof paper works great too.
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Hmm, yeah, I can see the difference on 98 lb mix media paper compared to the 150 bristol
lol I always kept it in my head that thicker is better for markers, but I see the works you, and do and the strathmore drawing paper has great results
Though the thicker strathmore is great for inks lol
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