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Absolute beginner needs paint or marker advice (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by worhui@lemmy.world to c/artshare@lemmy.world

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I’m an absolute beginner that decided to make a comic character poster for my kids. I found a nice tutorial and was able to sketch a nice 24,36” picture of the character Luffy from the cartoon they watch called one piece.

It’s all pencil outlines and it cleaned up pretty nicely. I unfortunately only had fluorescent pink poster board.

I’d like to paint the character in, but I’m afraid the paint won’t cover the pink and it would look pretty bad.

There are only a few colors in the character and it’s line art.

At any rate I would want a paint marker for the black lines. Would the oil based sharpie paint market be a good choice? Does anyone have an overall recommendation?

Here is the drawing tutorial. I followed. https://www.drawingtutorials101.com/how-to-draw-monkey-d--luffy-full-body-from-one-piece

Here is the color palette

https://www.anime-colors.com/one-piece-series/monkey-d-luffy

It will never be fine art, but I want to make something nice for my kids.(ideally before Easter)

Thanks for any beginner friendly advice

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[–] worhui@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 7 months ago*

I picked up winsor newton acrylic paints from the craft store.

I probably should have watched a YouTube video on painting or something.

The white paint has pretty good coverage. I just need to learn brush control.

The red paint has good coverage as well, but it does need more than one coat and it appears much darker than I expected. The more paint I add the darker it looks. There are two shades of red down and they look identical on the paper.

It looks like for me going over the lines with the paint marker than painting inside that works ok for me.

The yellow is not going to work. It’s transparent and I worry it will be dark ans muddy by the time enough layers are built up. I’ll try painting white under, then yellow over.

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