art felt-tips, great results, not tacky??

Question

ive taken art for school and i want to use felt-tips somehow on part of my coursework
i know you can add a bit of water and use it as ink but how else can you use them (like a style or adding something i.e. water) to make it look good and not tacky

if anyone has any tips, or pictures that use felt-tips well or anything like that .... thank you



p.s. my project is on ballerinas and animals (dreams, mind, etc. ) xxxxxxx

Answer 1

try diffrent textures on a test piece of paper before doing the real thing.
With a felt-tip pen that i use, sometimes i cut the end of to give a slanted edge.
Water is probably the best thing for felt-tips.
Im doing visual and and design and water is so far the most effective way to use felt-tips.

Answer 2

I don't know anything about "adding water" to these pens, but, straight out of the pen, they way they were designed to be used, permanent color art markers will dry, almost, instantly.

With the water soluable ones, I, frankly, don't see the point since water color paint can be applied and that's what THOSE paints are for.

For some examples of art work done in marker pens, check out:

http://members.aol.com/VSM66

Look at the "Commercial Illustation" and "Fantasy and Science Fiction" categories.

Answer 3

Felt tips and pens in general need not be tacky at all.
Consider the incredible pen work of artist Ron Zilinski,
from Vancouver Canada. He also does some fine digital drawing but his pen work is exceptional.
Here is a link.

http://www.fanartreview.com/selectprofileportfolio.jsp?userid=13592

good luck

Answer 4

I'll regard this as a 'pen to paper' question.
If it makes a mark, you can create art with it.
Don't worry about it appearing tacky (tacky to whom?)... it's what you make that counts.
Obviously use good quality pens, etc, but experiment with them. Try this: work with one or two colours only, for a few times...
Some people say that ball-points are no good for drawing... well, they are.
Part of the solution is to combine the right materials, i.e: paper, ink, paint, etc. Different touches, effects, finish, etc...

Answer 5

Use paper that is not white. Use gray or tan because it tones down the colors in the ink. Also use colored pencils for shading on top of the marker after it dries. Good luck.