Posts Tagged ‘Sharpies’
Mystic Ninja in Sharpies
I will admit that Mystic Ninja was actually one of my least favourite of the characters that I created for the Goodies and Baddies card set. I don’t know what it was, I probably just couldn’t put a back story to the character (they were all created specifically without back stories so people could personally work them out for themselves). Quite a few people commented to me that he …
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If you follow my Posterous account (and honestly why wouldn’t you be?) you would have seen the Sharpie illustration/scribble of our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man the other day. I hadn’t drawn him for a while and even though I can find his ongoing series a little tedious (I’m loving Ultimate Spider-Man though) I do enjoy drawing him!
I thought rather than just serve up the end result I might share the tools that I used to do this:
So we have a standard mechanical pencil, I think it is a 2B actually rather than a HB (I’d have to get up and confirm that, and I’m not getting up). A standard Sharpie and fine line Sharpie. I’m surprised how fine a line you can get out of a standard Sharpie but I got the thin line one for detail. The brush I used is one of my Japanese waterbrushes which essentially are a brush with a reservoir of water in the barrel they seeps through the brush tip. These waterbrushes are awesome as they make it really so simple to set up and the pack up when working in water colour. You control how much water comes out but squeezing the barrel and they are dead easy to clean!
Finally, you can’t see it but that is actually a three tier travel water colour set which of course work out great with the waterbrush.
I’m trying to make up my mind if I will colour the Iron Man illustration I did the other day…
Coffee and capes – Tony Stark edition?
Well it’s not really an official coffee and capes but I think it kind of fits the piece nicely and I always enjoy this kind of pose for Iron Man / Tony Stark.
The armour is no actual model armour, it’s my own interpretation combining the elements that I like from the early ones and the classic armour. I wanted a very simple feel for it all, it’s a quiet moment probably after a really long day and Stark isn’t feeling particularly big or larger than life.
Some will note too that he is not drinking out of a disposable cup either, that’s his own iron mug (heated via repulsor blasts).
