Just in case...

[telophase]

... anyone out there really gives a damn about knowing how I figured out that the Saiyuki pic in the marker book was done on marker paper (you can use a lot of different papers with them, so it's not as obvious an answer as it looks to be), this is why:






See that little picture in the upper right-hand corner? Here it is:



See how it's got no black lines and it's backwards? Marker paper is translucent. So Minekura gets her lovely blends using marker paper and the clear blender, which is what I wanted to know. XD Exactly which brand marker paper will have to wait until homasse gets home from the hospital with, hopefully, some translations in hand. :)

Comments

[chaoticvein.livejournal.com]

So now all I have to do is magically gain her coloring and artistic skills? Oh yes. XD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. That's just minor details, though. XD

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

So what're blends? You'll probably want to speak slowly and use small words, since my artistic talents are limited to formless doodles. *grin*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Normal blends - when you blend one color into another instead of having a sharp division.

This is my inexpert example of blending the marker vs. just laying them down next to each other. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/telophase/marker-blending-example.jpg)

This is an example of Minekura's blending. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/telophase/hakkai-example.jpg) She's used blending as well as not blending in this one - look at Hakkai's left cheek, on our right. You can see where she's blended the base yellow into the white she's left as highlight (that's the page left blank for highlights, like watercolor), and the shadow orange into the yellow ans his cheek curves away. Of course what we're looking at may not look *that* much like the original - it's been shrunk down (she worked big on the marker book's picture, so I'm assuming that she works big on all of them) and has gone trhough two reproduction processes - printed in the book, and then scanned again - all of which reduces detail, which means that she may not be that much more blended than I am in the example I did.

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

Coooooool. Thanks for explaining!