Easy multimedia drawing techniques for a drawing with lots of texture, interest and depth...

Our personal drawing techniques always evolve and refine as we develop as artists and as our styles and tastes change!

​I wanted to share the multimedia drawing techniques that I've been using recently to let you know how you can play about a bit with your materials, experiment and just have a go with something and see how it looks... that's how I came up with this particular technique!

For this multimedia drawing style I'll be using:

• pencil for sketching
• black fineliner pen for the initial drawing
• alcohol marker pens
• coloured pencils
• paint markers

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You get used to putting down a bold mark, and it really allows your own personal, expressive drawing style to filter through.

I choose to draw with fineliner pens (often just called ‘drawing pens’ or ‘artist pens’) but there are other pen types that might suit your personal drawing style better…

So we’ll look briefly, together, at a few different options.
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And then take a look at the different techniques you might use for drawing in pen and how drawing with a pen differs from drawing with pencils…

In this drawing lesson, we’ll start to explore how the marks you make on your page when drawing will create the texture and form of your subject.

This is important as it helps you to show something about the qualities of what you’re drawing – to describe the details and also the texture and the form itself.
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In this lesson:

• we’ll first take a look at why the marks we make as we draw are so important
• we’ll look at how to use the direction of our marks to give information about the form of what we’re drawing
• we’ll look at drawing close up details
• we’ll look at drawing textures
• we’ll put it all together in a still-life drawing practice