More experiementation with various pens that I have knocking around in my kit. One thing I really enjoy about marker pens - particularly the water soluble kind, is how quickly you can draw with them and also the range of lines you can make with just one pen. The below examples on the right were done with one black Broad Berol felt tip, the other with a Crayola marker. The freedom to move from one weight to another I find adds real character and charm to my lines - its very expressive. Its also very simplistic, which plays well to work I make thats more cutesy and charming in tone of voice - perhaps not suited to stuff thats more serious. I might experiment with this though.
These started out as rough doodles of me and my boyfriend (I often draw short stories and comics of life happenings - I tend to portray people as animals as I find it interesting to explore different people's personalities through animals of similar natures, and I also feel that there are certain issues that can be approached with this method to help communicate real life matters in a much subtler manner - as was my intention with the Fox and Rabbit story I drafted a few weeks back) But I started to look at ways I could use fine liners to colour with as well as just being a force predominantly for line. I think this method of crosshatch would look really cool and effective if used on a large, more graphic scale (I already use this technique for shading) where more care and attention goes into it. This example turned out pretty messy looking and I didn't quite get all the stripes to head in the same direction either. It wasn't the best thing for areas of intense detail.
These were done in Crayola markers again - experimenting with colour and line, and I was impressed with the result! the colours work well, and restricting it to just line meant that no unnecessary bleed happens. I would definitely use this technique on any brief work i'd be potentially given - or at least give it a try.
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