I’m an absolute beginner that decided to make a comic character poster for my kids. I found a nice tutorial and was able to sketch a nice 24,36” picture of the character Luffy from the cartoon they watch called one piece.

It’s all pencil outlines and it cleaned up pretty nicely. I unfortunately only had fluorescent pink poster board.

I’d like to paint the character in, but I’m afraid the paint won’t cover the pink and it would look pretty bad.

There are only a few colors in the character and it’s line art.

At any rate I would want a paint marker for the black lines. Would the oil based sharpie paint market be a good choice? Does anyone have an overall recommendation?

Here is the drawing tutorial. I followed. https://www.drawingtutorials101.com/how-to-draw-monkey-d--luffy-full-body-from-one-piece

Here is the color palette

https://www.anime-colors.com/one-piece-series/monkey-d-luffy

It will never be fine art, but I want to make something nice for my kids.(ideally before Easter)

Thanks for any beginner friendly advice

  • worhuiOPEnglish
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    4 months ago

    When you say cheap no-name. What is a name. I was just going to order from Amazon.

    When it comes to paint. Are some easier to use than others? I know I’d have a challenge painting clean lines with the tempura paints I usually use with the kids.

    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.ukEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Just ordered off Amazon is likely “no name”, though you could definitely get high-end stuff on there.

      Most brands also do a range from “basic” through “student” to “professional”. The professional ones have more pigment in them, i.e. better coverage or stronger tinting power. The absolute cheapest may be like “trying to paint something white using milk”.

      For example, Daler Rowney do a Basics range, then a Graduate range, then their fancier stuff is Cryla or System 3. Other brands are stuff like Windsor & Newton, Turner, Holbein, Lascaux, Golden.

      The price difference is quite extreme, as in the price for a full set of colours at cheapest, may only get a single tube of one colour at the high end. Model painting acrylics (i.e. Warhammer or Vallejo etc), in case you have any already, tend to have good coverage, and if you’re wanting flat untextured layers of colour, will probably work as well as a fairly high-end art paint. They may not have much flexibility if you’re working on canvas though - but should be fine on board or paper.

      I wouldn’t worry about it too much for what you’re currently planning - putting some time in, you could visually get the same results from cheaper stuff, it just might take two or three coats until it covers well enough.

      For the acrylic paint pens, as far as I could tell, even the no-name brand ones work pretty well. AK Interactive do high end ones for model makers, which should work well if you’re just getting the black for the outline.