Superman Christopher Reeves
Superman Christopher Reeves
Over Christmas I took two weeks off doing reviews but I couldn’t take anytime off drawing and so I felt the need to get some color down onto paper and try to do another FanArt piece. A good friend of mine and neighbour is a huge fan of the old Christopher Reeves Superman from the DC Universe.
I didn’t want to just do a drawing of Superman standing and so I tried to mix the drawing up a bit and one of the things that I have enjoyed doing lately is combining color with graphite. I have seen many other artists do this concept and do it well and so I thought I would give it another go.
This work was completed on Strathmore 500 Series Bristol Plate which is a smooth surface and 100% cotton, so it works really well with the markers and colored pencil combined. In this drawing I used Copic Markers and a few Arrtx Markers as well for the detail.
Along with the markers I used Caran d’Ache Luminance Colored Pencils, Faber Castell Polychromos, a few Prismacolor Premier. Ordinarily it doesn’t make sense to use Prismacolor along with the other two pencils only because of the lightfast differences, however as this was not a commission or anything like that, all I was interested in was color and all three pencils provide that in spades.
To contrast the piece I completed the portrait in graphite and for this piece I used the Caran d’Ache Grafwood Graphite range with a few Staedtler Mars Lumograph Black. I find doing human portraits in graphite easier, I think graphite is a more forgiving medium and can be manipulated better helping the portrait look softer where appropriate.
If you would like to watch the speed drawing of this artwork you can do so by following the link.
