Summary: To choose markers for caricatures, pick out a variety of widths and line quality to achieve shadow areas and fine details. Choose markers for caricatures with tips from an artist in this free video series on drawing and illustration.
Lars Eric Robinson graduated from Ringling School Of Art & Design where he received his B.F.A in Illustration in 1994. Robinson has also been a National Caricaturist Network (NCN)...read more
"Welcome my name is Lars Erik Robinson with LarsEr Arts All Around Art-Tainments is my slogan. Today as a caricature artist I'm going to talk to you about different kind of markers that we use as a caricature artist. We find that these markettes are very close to what used to be called design markers and I wish they would have come back out with those again but this is the only company that does them. Also these are good for great detail inside of the face. So if you start with the eye it goes from real thin to thick and these are great for detail if you are doing a bigger piece, especially an 11 X 14 and if you want to do the eyes, the eyebrows with it. It has a great flexibility on the tip and it keeps the ink for a long time and you can order these through Canada usually, you have to get them through because they don't sell them in the states because it adds too much of a saline marker in them actually. So what I usually do for the outside of the face is I use, let me finish this, get his bottom lip, get his teeth. I'm going to do a really quick one here for you, sometimes we could spend a lot more time on doing these. When you want to do the outside of the face and you want to do hair these brush markers are wonderful for you. They are thin but they're also very thick so you can fill a lot of big areas all at once. As you can tell it is very bold and it covers a lot of area. So if I wanted to fill in here. Sometimes I write my son's name in here right here in the crevices, write Shawn because I like to include my little boy in there at all times, freckles are great for it, creating maybe a goatee on him there, maybe he didn't shave all the way. Now if you just want to make his name. Maybe his name is Lars. Sometimes they dry out so I have a new one. And here is a really thin one and this one we can create maybe some different textures in the background there, maybe flies coming out of his ear and he has a little hair on his chest. So there are different markers that you can use for different techniques and different textures that you want. Thank you guys for joining me."
eHow Article: How to Choose Markers for Caricatures
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