Drawing/Sharpie Illustration- Start to Finish

Hello lovelies !! Hope this finds you well!!
My brother got me a beautiful journal for the holidays, and I have been deliberating what to put in it.Well ,today I was inspired to start a quick pencil sketch of a gorgeous gymnast /yogi/ dancer <3

The entire process took me about an hour:)

I started out by laying the basic design out in pencil .

I used a spirograph to get the mandala design. I initially did this in pencil to see how it would look, but had to re-do the whole thing in pen later.

Next, I inked in the main lines, and began to "finalize" some of the lines with a sharpie fine point permanant marker.I also started playing with different geometric designs / background at this point, toying with several choices before choosing mostly circles.

Next I cleaned up all the old pencil lines, and finalized all lines with the sharpie fine point marker, crisping up the page before moving forward.

After that, I began to accentuate the lines and bold them out a little more, while adding in more dimension to the background and extending out the overall shape and flow surrounding the figure <3

Still with the fine tip sharpie, I go in and add even more background .This became super meditative and calming for me , and I just love how it came out looking.

The last step was to take a King Size sharpie and draw a bold outline around the entire image .I used a kindof bubbly look to accentuate all the circles <3

At this point, I adjusted a few small things with a black marker (faber-castell) , just boldening out the dancer again, making sure that she doesn't get lost in everything else going on.

Here is the finished project!!! I kinda like the sharp black and white, so I decided not to color this one. 0130181748.jpg

If you enjoyed this blog, leave me a comment and a like for more art blogs <3 I am hoping to get back into sketching regularly and honing my skills back in, I am definitely a little rusty!!

Thank you SOOO much for all your support!!

SO MUCH LOVE!!!
Evening Star