More laundromat art--this was done with my new Chameleon markers--I bought them out of curiousity to see how they worked (I get the concept, but I wish their "brush tip" were a much larger brush tip than it is), so only bought the blue-purple set. As you can see, the idea of it is tipping a blender to the marker to dilute the ink for a brief time to do a light-to-dark shading process. The Chameleon markers have two tips--a bullet nib and small brush tip, then a cap with a colorless blender to cap whichever tip you're using for a few second to a minute to dilute the ink for a period of time.
However, while this works wonderfully in very small areas (such as the beach ball), the larger the area, the quicker the ink returns to the tip. It was extremely hard to do Rosemary's large areas with the concept of the marker's light-to-dark and by the tail, I gave up entirely--as you can probably tell. But if you're a marker artist doing small work, like artist tile or ATC/ACEO's, I think these markers are absolutely a nice investment for alcohol-based markers. :)
Pokemon belongs to Nintendo/GameFreak, Rosemary is my own OC.
It’s true! :)
The concept of these markers, the Chameleon brand, I think is for the people who don’t understand the colorless blender marker—so it creates a simple use for newcomers to the alcohol-based marker userbase. It really is kinda neat, but definitely works better for smaller spaces! :)
Though I’m very curious because the replacement cartridges for the markers are basically the style of the blender cap—so I’m greatly curious to know if you can also combine colors then! I’m scared to try and ruin the markers, though! XD
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We'll call her a different type of shiny and be fine!
I like seeing the experiments with traditional media. I never thought to dip the tips in water to dilute the ink temporarily. Though I can see where the struggle came in. Especially for larger pieces. Yikes.