Rock paper scissors*

One of the nice things about having kids is that you get to act like a kid as well – so this weekend while my son was drawing some ‘cool’ spaceships I was drawing some ‘cool’ sci-fi battle scenes.

It was great fun, although I did get told off quite a few times for not putting the lids back on his felt tip pens!

As for my artistic endeavours – I would have liked to spent longer sketching out the characters in pencil first (I was never great at life drawing).

To cover-up some of these inaccuracies I went over the finished picture with a brush and water in order to smooth out some of the detail. I then let it dry and used a black felt-tip pen to sharpen some of the outlines.

Felt-tip pens can be quite harsh, this is a nice way to soften the image and give it a more stylised look. Give it a go.

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