I wanted to experiment with markers since I dont use them for my drawings, so i wanted to try them out and see how I feel about them.
Here I swatched the colours of each marker to see how they looked individually. I did this before using them so I knew what they would look like, so I could pick my colours easier.
For testing them out, I draw this floating island that was inspired by a piece from Alex Heywood.
For the water I drew a green spiral first, and then built on top of that with shades of blue. This made it so that there was a green highlight in the water which I think makes it look great. I mixed orange, red and brown for the dirt. I do think that the dark brown parts are a bit too dark, so if I did this again I wouldn’t use as much of the brown for the shadows. The most difficult part was the tree, since I had to draw the leaves. For the leaves, I mixed different shades of green, as well as yellow to make it look less flat.
Using markers was a nice change of pace, since its not something I use for art. I’m not sure if I’ll use them for my final piece, but experimenting with the markers has given me some ideas for future pieces in this project.
The inspiration for the drawing:
