As a tool for fast expression, the marker pen is favored by many designers because of its fast and bright coloring. But at the same time, it also brings a lot of confusion to beginners because of its unique structure and the particularity of materials.
The marker pen has both thick and thin tips. However, the thick tip is often used for fast performance and three lines of different thicknesses can generally be drawn by adjusting the stroke angle.
Stroke characteristics of marker pen
Various types of line exercises: long lines, short lines, the combination of long and short lines, straight lines, slashes, arcs, curves and comprehensive applications.
Types of markers strokes
The practice of lines (strokes) is mainly to train the arrangement and combination of various types of lines. Including the use of markers to draw various: long lines, short lines, straight lines, oblique lines, arcs, curves, etc.
It’s also one of the important exercises in marker pen performance. Therefore, how to use the strokes reasonably and skillfully or not will directly affect the result of the drawing.
Single-Line
Single-line Pen is the most basic stroke form of the marker pen. This form is the simple parallel or vertical arrangement of lines. Which finally emphasizes the effect of the surface and builds a sense of order for the drawing.
The Gradient-line
The gradient effect of the brush stroke can produce virtual and real changes, use the pen to draw the lines and the strokes are done in one go. In other words, use the wide tip of the pen to arrange the wide lines neatly and use the tip of the pen to draw thin lines when transitioning.
Overlay-Lines
The Overlay-Lines can make the drawing rich in color and clear in transition. In order to emphasize the more obvious contrast effect and reflect the rich brushstrokes. Therefore,
please add another layer when you are done.
 Sweeping-Lines
The technique of “sweeping-Lines” is to start the pen slightly heavy, and then quickly move the pen to lift the pen and there is no obvious trace of closing the pen.
Point brush
The “point brush” is often used to draw plants, and its characteristic is that the brush strokes are not influenced by lines, but by blocks. Therefore, It is the most flexible and easy in brushwork. Besides, it’s necessary to control the edge lines and changes in density.
Steps to draw with marker pen
