#30fanarts

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Following on from completing inktober2019, here is the completed collection of my 2020 project "30 markers, 30 fanarts". The idea was to merge Inktober and Huevemeber practices into an end of year project with the added stipulation of every drawing being a fanart of a different character I love.

I wanted to try focussing on colour theory and composition for this project – markers seemed like the best traditional tool to really force me to. I don’t actually own a lot of markers, and what I do have isn’t necessarily artist grade. In and of itself, that was actually a reason I paid more attention to how I was using colour and how to vary it.

With some drawings, I kept it simple and just paid attention to how to layer the markers to get different effects. A few of these types were redraws of screenshots or official art and I feel like I really learned the most about actually using markers from those.

With others, I tried more interesting compositions to explore how to use colour in more dynamic or unusual ways. It was mostly on these that using markers gave me a lot of grief – I would often have an idea of what I wanted the outcome to be, but no idea on how to use markers to get there. There was a lot of experimenting. Some of it worked and some of it didn’t…

Also, for funsies, every drawing has some gold or silver on it somewhere. It wasn't planned but by the end, almost all of them had some anyway, so I went back and added it to what didn't. Even if that was one tiny dot in someone's eye somewhere.

At the end of this project, I have confirmed my previous conclusion that I just don’t like using markers that much (lol). I’ve definitely learned more about using them, how to layer them and how to use what I have to achieve different things. But I doubt they’ll ever be one of my go-to mediums.

Somehow, one of the hardest parts of this whole project was just coming up with 30 characters that I liked that fit into the colour schemes. In all honesty, there was some shifting and some finagling and some manoeuvring right up to the end of the project. But I’m happy with the set I chose; I think it’ll be interesting to look back at this selection in a few years and see who will have been replaced and what new characters will make it.

Overall, per usual, I went into this project boldly and bravely, regretted it halfway through, and now appreciate what I learned and accomplished at the end.

I’ll be posting my favourites individually/in pairs after I’ve cleaned them up some.

(list of characters under the cut)

1. Kat (Gravity Rush) 2. Jude (The Folk of the Air) 3. Phos (Houseki no Kuni) 4. Reigen (Mob Psycho 100) 5. Sekiro (Sekiro) 6. Itachi (Naruto) 7. Yona (Akatsuki no Yona) 8. Mafuyu (Oresama Teacher) 9. Sakura (Naruto) 10. Mob (Mob Psycho 100) 11. Shizuo (Durarara!!) 12. Tali (Mass Effect) 13. Lelouch (Code Geass) 14. Eijun (Diamond no Ace) 15. Akane (Psycho Pass) 16. Legion (Mass Effect) 17. Oikawa (Haikyuu!!) 18. Silverash (Arknights) 19. Grimmjow (Bleach) 20. Hoshiguma (Arknights) 21. Sena (Eyeshield 21) 22. Cardan (The Folk of the Air) 23. Natsume (Natsume Yuujinchou) 24. Levi (Shingeki no Kyojin) 25. Muriel (The Arcana) 26. Grunt (Mass Effect) 27. Raichi (Diamond no Ace) 28. Lara (Tomb Raider) 29. Eren (Shingeki no Kyojin) 30. Zhongli (Genshin Impact)

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2020 Project: 30 Markers, 30 Fanarts

Thumbnails to Completed #16 - #30

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2020 Project: 30 Markers, 30 Fanarts

Thumbnails to Completed #1 - #15