Practice and Exploration

Last night's effort is an exploration with paper from a new Arteza Acrylic Pad (paper is 246 lb.). This piece was colored in with Sharpie markers. Other tools used include a black Pentel PointLiner (0.3mm) and a silver Sakura Pen Touch. The 'white' areas are unpainted substrate.

In this piece, I experimented with more blending of Sharpies for more shadow areas. What I like most in this are the light and dark pattern areas in the collar that align with the wavy lines.

The Arteza paper used has a subtle, linen-like design on the paper creating a barely perceptible texture on the paper's surface. As can be seen in the blue background, the Sharpies didn't cover as easily as they do on watercolor paper. Using this paper, I sometimes had to apply two separate applications of the Sharpie for better coverage. That said, there was absolutely no bleed-through on the back of this paper.

My next effort will be using paint on this paper type to see how it works.

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