1. Marker Rendering Basics
Product Design Sketching

2. Marker Rendering Marker is a medium with great transparency
Marker inks are dye-based, bright and vivid in colour
Marker renderings should be sharp and crisp

4. Similar Colours
Marker strokes fuse together on normal paper and get lighter when dried
Marker stroke will not fuse on tracing paper and the same colour appears lighter than on normal paper
On paper
On tracing

5. Complimentary Colours
Unlike colour pencil, mixing complimentary colours may result in rather awkward result
On paper
On tracing

6. Grey Overlay
Overlaying grey tones on colour strokes can produce good shades
Applying light tones over a dark tone on tracing produce a ‘water-wash’ result
On paper
On tracing

7. Shading with Markers

8. Basic Skills: Marker Solo
Pick 3 marker pens of similar hues but different tones.
With the lightest tone, use diagonal strokes to render the top surface with the highlight zone left blank
With vertical strokes, render the 2 vertical surfaces
With the middle tone colour, overlay a second layer to one of the vertical surfaces using vertical strokes and half of the other surface with diagonal strokes
Add a final layer of vertical strokes using the darker tone
Overlay another layer of diagonal strokes on half of the vertical layer
Add background colour
Use a cooler colour for shadow
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Step 5
Step 7
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9. Mixed Media: Background Brush
Apply a quick sweep of strokes on the paper to give the sketch a colour background
Fill the shaded face with bluish shadow tone
Fill the side face with medium grey tone and water-wash the shaded face with the same tone
Overlay a layer of light tone to blend the colours
Add the blue shadow
High-light the top face and edges with colour pencil

11. Mixed Media: Marker + Colour Pencil
Render the background with a dark color of marker pen
Depict light, shade and shadow of the cube with marker pens
Enhance the rendering with colour pencils

12. Mixed Media: Pastel Rubbing
Rub a layer of powdered pastel colour against the paper to cover the entire cube
Use a middle tone marker pen to render the vertical surface in shade
With a marker pen of lighter tone, render a triangular area on the 2 vertical surfaces
Use a darker tone marker to render the shadow
Rub out pastel pigment along the horizontal edges with an eraser
Give final touch to the drawing with a colour pencil highlighting the edges for a more crispy and definitive outline

13. Activity - Geometrical Forms
Apply the marker rendering techniques to draw geometrical form compositions
Use your assignment from lesson 6 as reference
Complete 1 rendering in 10 minutes
2 – 3 drawing per A4 page