Graphitint were the surprise winners in my recent experimentations. I’ll be digging further into them in a later video.

I’m still not 100% sold on the results so far. The graphite underlay seems to be deadening the watercolour – though I’ve done this technique before and had excellent results. Namely the image to the left.

This portrait was rendered with
graphite with watercolour on top.

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I’m on an experimental kick – trying to discover a way to blend graphite rendering and watercolour together in a pleasing joy bomb. There is no joy. The graphite dulls the watercolour and makes it “dirty”…. Hmph. I will keep trying.         More product information   As always – links to products […]

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I tested Copic markers on a variety of supports to see about saturation, bleed and blendability. This is the final bit scanned so you can get a closer look:   [wufoo username=”lezleydavidson” formhash=”z7x3x5″ autoresize=”true” height=”433″ header=”show”]