New Marker Techniques - A Guide to Using Markers

Yoshiharu Shimizu

Graphic Sha Pub Co

2003

127 páginas

4h 14m

ISBN-10: 4766112989

I'm in my mid-30s and have dabbled in all sorts of media. I've rekindled my love for marker illustrations primarily because the materials needed are so portable. No water cups or brushes to bring and rinse, no palettes, no cleaning!! Most of my stuff is done at a Starbucks in fact. Recently, I've been looking for other sources to enhance what I already do and to simply see what artists of the past have already done with markers. I've purchased almost ALL of the marker rendering books on Amazon. All are dated, mainly because everyone uses Photoshop and Painter to do comps nowadays. In one of many Amazon shipments was Yoshiharu Shimizu's book entitled Creative Marker Techniques: In Combination With Mixed Media and it...WAS...EXCELLENT! The covers of all 3 of his books speak for themselves. Markers were primarily used to QUICKLY and ROUGHLY illustrate an idea/concept. As a result, ALL of the marker rendering books display ONLY "rough" applications of the medium. Yoshiharu Shimizu is the ONLY author who clearly demonstrates a "cleaned up" marker illustration. Certain materials and techniques are required if you want to achieve a finished look. Get THIS book and his other three books if you want to step up your marker illustrations. The subject matter is dated but get the book for the valuable techniques to do your own stuff. His books tend to be bilingual but ask your sellers to make certain they include English text.