Al Fresco Art Club Challenge, Jan 26, 2020: Markers

Today’s Al Fresco Art Club challenge was held indoors again. The good news is that it’s raining now instead of snowing and Spring is on the way. I chose this challenge today: color something with markers. I drew a couple of Jimmy Jay cartoons, a colorful airplane, and two self-portraits, one from memory (the one on the left), and one from a reference (a selfie). I’m always surprised at how little my from-memory drawings look like what they’re supposed to look like.

I’m new to using Copic markers. I learned that the ink I use for my illustrations, Rotring Rapidograph Ink, doesn’t stand up well to Copic markers — lot’s of bleeding. As I expected, my Copic Multiliners worked great and did not bleed.