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Toreador is a black Arabian stallion. This was drawn as my half of an art trade between myself and Jhatonna Turner on Artwanted.com.

Initially I wanted to do another experiment with pastels, but decided to try another medium that I haven't had much practise with recently: markers. This is prisma and tria markers on some outstanding marker paper made by Borden and Riley (#234 Paris Bleedproof paper for pens). Of course, normally it is bleed-proof, but I abused it rather thoroughly working to "lift" one area on the ground and managed to get it to bleed. Apart from that the paper is amazing and makes marker work much easier. However, it is hyper-bright and you can't use gouache, acrylics, or a white gel-pen to remove mistakes without being able to see exactly where it was.

I'm very happy with how this turned out. I probably should have pushed the dark a bit more, but I was hesitant to kill some of the detail. I'm really happy with how some parts turned out, but partially disappointed in others, mostly due to my lack of skill. Hair is still quite beyond me and hard to manage.

And anoter note, silverfast+photoshop = POWER! The scanner didn't want to pick up some of the purple, and looking back I might have pulled it out too much, but it looks pretty close to the original.

Image is © CERT, Toreador is the intellectual property of J. Turner [link]

Description
Toreador is a black Arabian stallion. This was drawn as my half of an art trade between myself and Jhatonna Turner on Artwanted.com.

Initially I wanted to do another experiment with pastels, but decided to try another medium that I haven't had much practise with recently: markers. This is prisma and tria markers on some outstanding marker paper made by Borden and Riley (#234 Paris Bleedproof paper for pens). Of course, normally it is bleed-proof, but I abused it rather thoroughly working to "lift" one area on the ground and managed to get it to bleed. Apart from that the paper is amazing and makes marker work much easier. However, it is hyper-bright and you can't use gouache, acrylics, or a white gel-pen to remove mistakes without being able to see exactly where it was.

I'm very happy with how this turned out. I probably should have pushed the dark a bit more, but I was hesitant to kill some of the detail. I'm really happy with how some parts turned out, but partially disappointed in others, mostly due to my lack of skill. Hair is still quite beyond me and hard to manage.

And anoter note, silverfast+photoshop = POWER! The scanner didn't want to pick up some of the purple, and looking back I might have pulled it out too much, but it looks pretty close to the original.

Image is © CERT, Toreador is the intellectual property of J. Turner [link]