How to Use a Sharpie to Add Detail to Glass Paintings

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"JASON PAINTER: Hi, I'm Jason. Today, we're painting on glass, and we're to the stage now where we can actually put the detail in. And if you're not comfortable with putting it in with paint, I'd like to cheat here too. I'm going to take my magic--my sharpie marker, and I'm going to put in all the detail. You'll never be able to tell that I didn't use a paint brush. I'm going to put in detail in the bones, I'm going to put detail in the face, and rather than draw with like you normally do with a sharpie, going to get--go on your paper and make a nice thin line so that you can not all the way touch the paper but it still makes a line. That's the same thing you're going to want to do on the paint. You're just going to want to write across the surface of the paint. If you get down on there too far, it'll actually rip the paint up. So, just do that and put in the little detail everywhere that you want, in the bones, touch up any little, tiny white lines that you see that you don't like, and this is a chance to add detail that you didn't even put in before if you like. I'd like to really get--I'd like to put a little bit more definition down on the bones, down here, maybe up some by the eyes, just little things, and you don't even have to dry. You can just dot them up and nobody will even know. Maybe up here on the bone. It's really up to you. Anything you want to do but that sharpie will really touch it up really fast and just dotted lines--dotted--or rather than lines, just dot it. And that will start to give it a little more definition. And the last thing that we're going to want to do is make these eyes look good. They really don't look good right now but we've been waiting for the black to dry. We can do a technique with the white, and with this, and we'll do next that after this dries."