Marker Hint #1: To create a uniform square of color first use the fine-point end of your marker to lay down color along the inside edge of your square. Then switch to the wide end of your marker to completely fill in the square.
Here is some work by Barry McGee and below are two drawing/paintings by another one of my favorites Chris Johanson, both Bay Area natives.
There are a lot of different drawing styles and techniques. Drawing is like a language. We use it to communicate ideas. Everyone has their own unique voice. You just need to develop it.
Emily Prince, All the American Servicemen and Women, 2004-ongoing.She has been researching and drawing portraits of every serviceperson lost in the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When the entire project is installed it is arranged to look like a map of the United States and each portrait is placed geographically.
Thanks for joining the class. Next week we will finish the first assignment and then draw and learn how to render different kinds of materials in marker and colored pencil.
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