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Prismacolor Fantasies

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ive always envied other artists who get some incredibly rendered paintings using prismacolor markers. ive been taking advantage of my creature design assignments to try and grasp the marker medium and for the first few runs i was pretty unsuccesful. BUT this last assignment was pretty rewarding. now the hard part is gonna be remembering exactly what i did to get those results ’cause i have to be honest with you; it was mostly accidental. i mean, i knew what colors i wanted to use and everything but its the blending that always, in my words,  f*cked me. so hopefully, fingers crossed, i remember the techniques used and can fulfill my fantasy of congquering prismacolor markers.  anyways here are a few of my marker paintings done in previous homework assignments in order from worst first to decent recent :)

BEFORE

4x6in prismacolor marker on marker paper. photoshop 

AFTER

3x6in prismacolor marker on marker paper. photoshop

NOW :)

7x8in prismacolor marker on marker paper. photoshop

Its A Deer! Its A Horse!… Its A Unicorn?

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this is one of my most satisfactory creations done in my creature design class. i think ive said this a few times before. but the focus of this class is to correctly and believably combine the features of two or more species of animals into a mythological creature. this one here is a unicorn based off descriptions in the book “the last unicorn” by peter s. beagle and “the book of beasts” by t.h. white, which mostly describe it as a thin, slender creature more like a deer or antelope than a horse. also, ive incorporated a new way to post my black and white art. this one here simply has a thin frame with a copywright stamp on the bottom. ill be posting another drawing soon where you can see more of what im talking about with this new presentation format… so stay tuned!! errr stay online or whatever

ps. i would also like to give some credit to eliot goldfinger for his amazing book “animal anatomy for artists.” this book has been my primary animal musculature and skeletal reference

8.5x11in each. graphite & ink. photoshop