LFI 2022 Week 7

Hard to believe we're seven weeks into the new year already! I haven't been doing many of these LFI lessons, because a lot of them have been either in graphite or designed to learn virtually in Procreate or Artrage, neither of which appeals to me. But THIS week was a lesson I could get behind! I did have to splurge and buy some marker pens and brushes to duplicate what the teacher was doing, but the method looked so fun that I didn't mind! (I ended up buying some wrong pens, so I still had to improvise a little, but I managed a fair facsimile of what she was doing.)

The teacher was Nadyia Duff; as usual I decided to paint the teacher instead of the reference photo, and boy did I have big fun. This is a much more illustrative style than I am used to, utilizing a lot of different media, and doing a bunch of hatching and cross-hatching, which I hate in pencil but love in color! There are several layers here—first marker pens, then water-based brush pens, then watercolor and acrylic, and then we came back in and added/replaced some of the hatching that got lost under the other media, wherever we wanted things to pop. Lastly, she does these fun funky backgrounds of one-point perspective line drawing with no color that give her work such a unique look! I didn't do so well with the perspective part, but I love the effect of the full-color figure against the black-and-white background.

I'm putting in process photos, because this really was a long, involved creation.

The drawing:

The first layer of hatching:

The water brushes (I kinda panicked here, it was so dark!):

The last two layers (watercolor/acrylics, and then replacement hatching):

And, the finished piece!

"Nadyia Duff"—Ohuhu color marker pens, Arteza water-based brush pens, watercolor, acrylics, Signo white gel pen, Uniball for the black details, on Fluid 140-lb. coldpress paper, 9x12 inches.