
Learn color gradation with alcohol-based ink markers to render light to dark tones and create three-dimensional shading in food drawings.
Learn how to blend two colors with alcohol-based ink markers to create new hues for food illustrations. Compare wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques to achieve smooth color transitions.
Explore how paper type affects color brightness, blending, and ink bleed when using markers, comparing marker paper, gray and craft papers, yellowish papers, and white papers.
My reference photo is from a screenshot from the online magazine of (Better Homes and Gardens Australia). You can download it so it'd be clear for you how I draw it.
Sketch a tart with contour lines and strawberries using a light orange pencil to keep marker colors clean, and note that graphite should be light (h) to avoid visible lines.
Choose color grades from the marker chart to render orange and yellow, using three markers. Reveal light and shade from light to dark with dotting technique for a spongy texture.
Use alcohol-based ink markers to color strawberries with two-tone red and two green tones, leaving white highlights and desiccated coconut on top.
Enhance the cake and strawberries with fine liners, sepia Unipen seeds, and a white gel pen for light reflections, adding depth with light to dark shading and desiccated coconut dotting.
Learn to render whipped cream on yellowish paper by shading dark areas, layer light yellow marker and white ink with circular strokes, then add red sauce and highlights for depth.
A scanned picture for my final drawing.
Hello, welcome to a new tutorial!
In this tutorial, I've taken a picture for a plate of watermelon and cantaloupe slices. You can download the picture below to help you if you're going to draw the same drawing.
Sketch watermelon and cantaloupe with pencil, starting with large forms and correct proportions, then add details to guide coloring and capture the bright and shaded areas from life or photo.
Create the cantaloupe outer skin using a gray fine liner, add broken web lines, fill blocks with yellow markers, and finish with white gel highlights and green tones.
Learn to differentiate two cantaloupe parts using shading and blending with brown and yellow, adding tiny details to define each piece and prevent a flat, single shape.
Color watermelon slices with alcohol-based ink markers by layering light to dark reds and browns, blending greens and yellows for rind, and adding fine lines for texture.
Revisit and reinforce the watermelon slice illustration with alcohol-based ink markers by repeating explanations from the previous video.
Color the plate with a single turquoise marker to render light, mid, and dark tones, using light blue, gray, and dark blue with a blender for a washed effect.
Fix mistakes by adjusting the background to blend the plate, using a light blue marker and gray shadow, then correct with a white marker and reapply blue to finish.
Join an interactive session on alcohol-based ink markers for food drawing and illustration. Ask questions in the dashboard Q&A, get replies within 24 hours, share your work, and give feedback.
Please download donuts reference picture to help you while drawing.
Sketch donuts with simple doodling, test marker colors with an orange pencil, and use a paper color chart to choose inks, while thick paper prevents ink bleed-through.
Color the chocolate doughnut topping by layering light yellow highlights, a base brown, and a darker brown for shadows, using wet-on-wet blending for a smooth transition. Add tiny details like white sauce and white sprinkles, deepen shadows with blue and brown, and enhance light with a white pastel pencil for a realistic finish.
Color the eaten part with a light beige, spongy texture using a dotting technique, then continue coloring the intact part with yellow, brown, and gray markers.
Color the pink donut with a pink base, shade with darker pink layers, switch the sauce to white, add sprinkles with highlights, and create a gray shadow with red liner.
Please download pomegranate reference picture to help you while drawing.
Learn how to color pomegranate seeds with ink markers.
Learn how to color pomegranate outer skin with ink markers.
Here's my final drawing.
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M C says, "I am completely new to markers and didn't even own any alcohol-based markers before starting this course. I only knew how to use markers like a child at school - by filling in space between the lines. So, I was interested in learning some basic techniques and was inspired by the delicious subjects. At first, I was hoping for more specific recommendations on supplies, but I found the information given in the course was enough. I went on Amazon and purchased a set of markers and paper I was comfortable with for my budget. I didn't get all the extras like the liners, sepia pen or snowball pen. But, I didn't really need them. I was able to complete the projects with just my set of markers. As a beginner, I followed the tutorial very closely. I did all the exercises on blending and texture first and learned a lot about the markers through these exercises. I wasn't sure if I was ready to jump into the strawberry tart, but I did it and was very happy with the results. I look forward to using my markers more!"
Would you like to draw some yummy illustrations? Then let’s do it using ink markers.
In this course, I’ll teach you how to draw and color food in a realistic style using what are called alcohol-based ink markers.
I’ll start by teaching you markers' basic coloring techniques (color blending and gradation and texture creation). Then I’ll apply these techniques through a number of food drawing tutorials. And through each tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the markers to create textures, show light and shade, and make a realistic drawing that everyone would like to eat!
I’ll take you on a step-by-step journey starting from sketching to adding the final touches to each drawing. And every now and then, I’ll add a new tutorial to the course, so you’ll not just learn the available tutorials, but you’ll also have the upcoming ones.
Currently available tutorials;
Realistic drawing of a strawberry tart.
Realistic drawing of cantaloupe and watermelon.
Realistic drawing of donuts.
So, Why ink markers?!
Well, simply because they enable you to make amazingly realistic illustrations that would love to eat!
Besides their living bright colors, ink markers are so enjoyable in drawing and expressing color gradation and textures.
Not to mention that you can carry them with you whenever you’re, so you can draw your food anywhere.
Ink markers are available in the market under several brand names, for example, Copic markers, Touch markers, Prismacolor markers, etc. In my course, I use two different brands alternately (Touch markers and Sign me Markers). Although different marker brands vary in quality, you can apply the same coloring techniques taught in the course using any brand. So feel free to get any brand you want according to your preference and budget.
This course will teach you how to color using ink markers through food illustration, although you might use the techniques taught in the course in fields other than that. So the aim of the course is to increase your appetite for marker sketching in general, and who knows, maybe for food too.
Hope you’ll enjoy the course and Bon appetite!