Amping Up the Backgrounds

 Yesterday I posted about an Alisa Burke class I'm taking.

I showed you various water color wash backgrounds

I worked on in the class.

Today we take it to the next level with some drawing.

 

Again - since classes are one way Alisa makes her living, I can not give you the steps we followed to make this background. I can tell you this beautiful color comes from Tombow markers.

 Here is the beautiful background I showed you yesterday.

My absolute, hands-down favorite from the class.

 I used a black sharpie for my line work.

Sharpies are permanent once dry,

so you can add more ink or paint if you want to

without messing up your line work.

 The white highlights came from a Sakura gelly roll pen.

You may notice my highlights are a bit messy in spots.

I still am not back to 100% great vision after

my surgeries . . .

. . . so I went back over some lines with my sharpie. And this is my result. Got to say this is one of my all time favorites. Thank you, Alisa!
You can go to this link to check out her classes.

It Helps if You Follow the Directions

Although I like the way this turned out, I just realized I didn't follow the directions to the letter. (That wouldn't be a first.) Once I laid down the color around the outside, I was supposed to use a wet brush to make a color wash. Ack! I used the tombow blender pen, which mostly worked but made it really hard to be successful with the color wash. I may be trying this again. I used watercolor paper, Sakura microns and Copic multiliner pens - which I heat set and they both bled anyway, and Tombow dual brush markers. Tombow does have some pretty colors!