Character Drawing with Alcohol Markers

Informationen zum Autor After finishing art school in Spain, Lidia Cambón (known online as MSSHANH) became a freelance illustrator as well as a UX/UI designer. Her colorful and feminine works are inspired by '90s media and fantasy characters, with a little touch of melancholy. Klappentext Learn how to create stunning, expressive character illustrations using alcohol markers with this beginner-friendly how-to-draw guide from artist Lidia Cambón (@msshanh). Through her signature ethereal and feminine style, popular artist Lidia Cambón shares the ins-and-outs of creating cute manga-inspired characters with alcohol markers, a type of permanent marker that allows artists to blend vibrant colors easily with little to no smearing. Using this book's beginner-friendly lessons, example illustrations, and practice pages, learn fundamental character drawing techniques like: The basics of color theory, and how it can be used thoughtfully to create unique charactersTechniques for blending and shading with your markers, and how you can avoid streaks and splotchesHow to draw hair, facial expressions, and other human characteristics to add realism to your charactersChoosing the right materials to make your illustrations pop...and many more drawing techniques Whether you're new to drawing or an experienced illustrator, Cambón's guidance will show you how to make your ideas come to life and create colorful, endearing character illustrations. Leseprobe INTRODUCTION If you are reading this book you are probably interested in art, or maybe you are an artist yourself. In that case, you might relate to me when I say that I can't pinpoint exactly when I started being interested in art. From a very early age I always found interest in the beauty of things; drawing and painting was just a way for me to channel those creative interests. Paper and pencil were always available so I went for it. I grew up in the 90's (born '92) watching loads of anime, so it is no surprise that my first drawings were recreations of the characters in those cartoons. At the time I didn't know that those cartoons were in fact anime, but even nowadays my style is heavily influenced by anime and manga. I started just copying the characters and style, but it was an easy way to get into drawing characters, which is what I still do to this day. Looking back, it is so interesting to see how something that happened so long ago still has an impact in my day to day life today. By the year 2000, I already had a huge interest in the plastic arts, being known in the family and school as the creative kid. However, in the summer of 2001, something happened that completely changed the way I would imagine my own future from that point on. That summer I picked up my first comic book series, with which I would be obsessed for a while. It was no other than W.I.T.C.H. by Barbucci and Caneppa for Disney. To say that I fell in love with that comic book series is an understatement. Naturally I started drawing the characters from the series, I would do it almost every dayit became my favourite thing to draw. But most importantly, I then knew that what I wanted to do as a career was to be an artist. I really owe both Barbucci and Caneppa a huge thank you, for without the inspiration that their series brought me I would have never considered art as a career. W.I.T.C.H. was only the start of course, soon after I realised I really loved comics and manga for girls, and luckily for me by that time manga titles were finally starting to be available in the west. Overall the early '00s were a time in my life that really shaped my style as an artist, from shapes to colour to subject matter. By the mid '00s I was already spending a significant amount of time on the family computer, and soon enough my interest for art and comics transferred to my online activities. That is when I discovered t...

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After finishing art school in Spain, Lidia Cambón (known online as MSSHANH) became a freelance illustrator as well as a UX/UI designer. Her colorful and feminine works are inspired by '90s media and fantasy characters, with a little touch of melancholy.

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Learn how to create stunning, expressive character illustrations using alcohol markers with this beginner-friendly how-to-draw guide from artist Lidia Cambón (@msshanh).

Through her signature ethereal and feminine style, popular artist Lidia Cambón shares the ins-and-outs of creating cute manga-inspired characters with alcohol markers, a type of permanent marker that allows artists to blend vibrant colors easily with little to no smearing.

Using this book's beginner-friendly lessons, example illustrations, and practice pages, learn fundamental character drawing techniques like:

• The basics of color theory, and how it can be used thoughtfully to create unique characters
• Techniques for blending and shading with your markers, and how you can avoid streaks and splotches
• How to draw hair, facial expressions, and other human characteristics to add realism to your characters
• Choosing the right materials to make your illustrations pop
• ...and many more drawing techniques
  Whether you're new to drawing or an experienced illustrator, Cambón's guidance will show you how to make your ideas come to life and create colorful, endearing character illustrations.

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INTRODUCTION

If you are reading this book you are probably interested in art, or maybe you are an artist yourself. In that case, you might relate to me when I say that I can’t pinpoint exactly when I started being interested in art. From a very early age I always found interest in the beauty of things; drawing and painting was just a way for me to channel those creative interests. Paper and pencil were always available so I went for it.

I grew up in the 90’s (born ‘92) watching loads of anime, so it is no surprise that my first drawings were recreations of the characters in those cartoons. At the time I didn’t know that those cartoons were in fact anime, but even nowadays my style is heavily influenced by anime and manga. I started just copying the characters and style, but it was an easy way to get into drawing characters, which is what I still do to this day. Looking back, it is so interesting to see how something that happened so long ago still has an impact in my day to day life today.

By the year 2000, I already had a huge interest in the plastic arts, being known in the family and school as the creative kid. However, in the summer of 2001, something happened that completely changed the way I would imagine my own future from that point on. That summer I picked up my first comic book series, with which I would be obsessed for a while. It was no other than W.I.T.C.H. by Barbucci and Caneppa for Disney.

To say that I fell in love with that comic book series is an understatement.

Naturally I started drawing the characters from the series, I would do it almost every day—it became my favourite thing to draw. But most importantly, I then knew that what I wanted to do as a career was to be an artist. I really owe both Barbucci and Caneppa a huge thank you, for without the inspiration that their series brought me I would have never considered art as a career.

W.I.T.C.H. was only the start of course, soon after I realised I really loved comics and manga for girls, and luckily for me by that time manga titles were finally starting to be available in the west.

Overall the early ‘00s were a time in my life that really shaped my style as an artist, from shapes to colour to subject matter.

By the mid ‘00s I was already spending a significant amount of time on the family computer, and soon enough my interest for art and comics transferred to my online activities. That is when I discovered that people were sharing their art onli…