A proper tool for making higlights...

[Fatesailor]

Does anyone knows any tool -like a well covering white marker, for example- for making spontainous highlights? Does such a thing exists? All the markers I tried were incapable of doing such a thing, they were too transparent. Gouache is a good solution but because you have to work it with a brush you can not aquire spontainity with it. To be very careful, you know, costs in grace. Or, even if it is not a matter of a proper tool, which is the way to obtain dynamic glazes and highlights as, especially, is those needed when we try to give the sense of curved metallic surfaces?

[emesen]

Feng zhu's website mentions that he uses white gel pens... I picked one up and it does work rather well over ink and marker. Electric erasers do a great job but unless you are using a vellum or board, it will eventually kill your ground...

hope this helps.

[Fatesailor]

Thanks emesen. I am going right now to Feng's site.

[MadSamoan]

Highlights are not something to be treated spontaneously, but gel pens or gouache are decent or an opaque paint called Pro-White is used alot also.