Better Marker: Fashion Illustration · Mini Course
Markers don't fill. They build.
- 2.2hHD video
- 5lessons
- 106brushes taught
- 1finished figure
One-time purchase · Lifetime course access · 30-day money-back
One figure, five sittings: the skin laid down softly and repeated until the shadows arrive, dry markers for the eyeliner that must not blend, wet markers for the soft edge of a pink fur coat, and a paper texture underneath the whole thing.
Digital marker work goes flat when you treat it like paint
The instinct is to pick a colour and fill the shape. A real marker never does that — it deposits a light layer, and the darks appear because you went over the same place again.
So Freya paints the face by rubbing gently at the forehead, leaving the lit areas alone, and letting the second and third pass make the shadows. Same colour throughout.
The same thinking runs through the whole figure. The fur coat is painted deliberately imprecisely, edges skipped and left blurry, because a neat edge would stop reading as fur.
Wet, dry and paper each do one job
The set has 106 brushes across those three families. Knowing which family a mark belongs to is most of the technique.
Wet markers for skin and fabric
Soft, blendable, forgiving. Freya works around 5–6% brush size for a face, so the colour arrives slowly and the highlights are simply the parts she never touched.
Dry markers where nothing should blend
Eyebrows, eyeliner, the creases at the corner of an eye. The dry set stays dark and stays put, which is exactly what those marks need.
Paper texture, first layer down
Eleven paper brushes, a dark grey, and Linear Burn. Everything painted afterwards sits on a surface — and if it's too light, you duplicate the layer.
One layer per garment
Skin, makeup and hair, light and detail, t-shirt and pants, coat, coat detail, sunglasses, necklace, bag. Named as she goes, so any piece of the outfit can be changed later.
A marker workflow that fits any reference you choose
The figure is one outfit. The method works on whatever fashion photo you bring next.
Build skin from one colour by repeating strokes, and leave the lit areas unpainted rather than adding white later.
Paint eyes in layers — grey shadow on the white, a base for the pupil, a darker top half, then a white catchlight.
Render fur by refusing to be neat: skip edges, vary pressure, keep it blurry so it reads as soft.
Give fabric its folds with pressure rather than a second, darker swatch.
Name every layer as you make it, so the finished illustration is still a file you can edit.
Keep checking the original picture as you paint. That habit does more for a marker illustration than any brush choice.
— Freya
Finish the course, take the certificate 🎓
Lifetime access to all five lessons — 2 hours and 14 minutes of real-time painting, on desktop, tablet or phone.
Complete the course and you receive a Certificate of Completion. The reference picture, the sketch and the colour swatches download with the class.
Lesson list
Five real-time lessons, narrated in English. One part of the figure each.
Paper texture on Linear Burn, then the face: a nude base built up in passes, the lit forehead left alone, and shadow arriving from repetition rather than a darker colour.
Lesson 1 — Painting the Skin27:00
Eyebrows, eyelids, eyes and eyeliner with the dry markers, then the hair. A separate light and detail layer for the catchlights.
Lesson 2 — Painting the Hair & Makeup21:31
The outfit under the coat: flat garments given their folds with hand pressure, each on its own layer.
Lesson 3 — Painting the Top & Pants14:24
The longest lesson, and Freya's favourite: a pink fur coat painted with a round-tipped wet marker, edges skipped on purpose so the fur stays soft.
Lesson 4 — Painting the Coat41:34
Sunglasses, necklace and bag, each on its own layer, and the final pass over the whole figure.
Lesson 5 — Painting the Accessories30:03
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Lifetime access to all five lessons- Project files: the reference picture, the sketch and the colour swatches
- Certificate of Completion
Better Marker: Fashion Illustration Mini Course
5 Lessons, 2 hours 14 minutes of real-time painting
One-time purchase · Lifetime course access
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FAQs
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No. This mini course teaches Freya's Better Marker Brush Set, which is a separate product. The 106 brushes are not included here, so buy the set as well if you don't already own it — the class names a specific brush at nearly every step.
One complete fashion illustration: a figure in a pink fur coat over a cropped top and trousers, with sunglasses, a necklace and a bag. It is built across five lessons, one element at a time.
Five lessons, 2 hours and 14 minutes of video, all painted in real time. The coat alone runs 41 minutes. You have lifetime access, so you can work through it in sittings.
Some. The sketch is provided, so you are not drawing the figure from scratch, but you should be comfortable with Procreate layers, blend modes and brush sizing.
An iPad with Procreate and a pressure-sensitive stylus — pressure matters a lot here, because it is how the folds and shadows are made. The reference picture, the sketch and the colour swatches are included.
No. The brush set ships with a short introduction to the brushes. This is a separate, longer class that paints one complete figure.
Yes. Complete all five lessons and you receive a Certificate of Completion.
No. This is a one-time purchase with lifetime access, including any updates we add to the course.
Yes. If the course isn't the right fit, reach out to support@twotap.art within the refund period and we'll refund your payment in full.
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