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Monday, 28 November 20112:44 am
Stuff I Draw When I'm Brain Dead
Sometimes I don't want to use my brain. But I still want to draw. So I have found a compromise!

Basically when I'm brain dead I really enjoy drawing shapes and then colouring them in. It's like designing your own colouring book! I have an entire sketchbook dedicated to this stuff, but for this post I'll just show three. Maybe more in another post.

It's pretty fun 'cos I get to choose colour combos and then mindlessly colour while listening to loud dance music (hahaha).


Orange, purple, green, grey, brown, white.

Red, yellow, green, blue, purple, white. 

Yellow, orange, blue, grey, white

I drew these with black markers (you have no idea how many black markers I've gone through in the past month alone - it's ridiculous) and coloured marker pens. Pretty easy!

In order to prevent that streaky pen-mark look that you sometimes get from using coloured markers, what I do is that I colour the shape continuously & evenly with the marker in one direction only. After that I colour another even layer over it in another direction. It works! 

Actually in the first one on top, there's one grey bit with streaks on it. 
That's the kind of effect I try to avoid. >:(

Something else to be careful of is your black marker. Once you start colouring the black shapes with coloured markers, the black ink may start streaking onto the coloured bits! That really irritates me (grrrrrr).

AND SOMETIMES, the black marker shit gets onto the coloured parts (you know, fluff from the marker nip that comes off when you use it - ugh). Even more irritating but not the end of the world still.

Stuff to draw when you're brain dead. 

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