The Lion in Winter #2

I'm becoming more and more comfortable with markers as I uses them. I've always been a huge fan of Prismacolor's products - I have several large sets of their colored pencils and have used their pastels before. They have such great saturated colors. Sometimes, though, they are a little too saturated and bright.

For this character, Phillip of France, I wanted to use a bright color for his tunic. He's a King after all and a fancy French one - so I went with blue. Well that blue was a little too blue. Out came my old friend, French (HA!) Grey 20%. That solved it!

I made a mistake on the fur and hair, though. Not enough texture - I just used the fine point side of the marker - obviously not fine pointed enough! Fixing that in the next few...