How to prime a canvas for posca

Something I find very difficult is how to prime my canvas before I draw with posca on it. I have tried to prime with plain white cheap gezzo. I use a wide paintbrush to put it on the canvas.
I have to be careful to get enough on the canvas to cover it completely.

To help me to ensure that I get primer on the whole canvas, I tried to use a light blue acrylic paint. I wanted to draw a fanart Nemo from the movie Finding Nemo.

It was much better to draw on the canvas with posca after I primed it with acrylic paint. There where no areas that was not covered. I could then go on an make the actual painting with posca to see how it behaved.

It is a bit difficult to actually see on my painting, but I am not completely satisfied with the orange posca. You kind of have these dark areas becouse of the blue primer. I went over the orange posca color several times.

Prime paper for posca

Recently I bought a light table so it gets easy to get my sketch onty a canvas. I use a thick 300g water color paper as my canvas. I have tried different kinds of paper, and they all started to bulge when the primer dried.
As primer I tried both the Gezzo and the light blue acrylic paint. Both got the paper to bulge so it was useless to draw on with posca.
I got some okay results painting both sides of the paper with my primer, but that is a lot of work every time, and also messy!

Lastly I got a tip to use spray paint to prime my canvas, which I then tried. That was really easy to use and the result was awesome. I used the cavas to draw some fanart Minions from the movie Dispicable me

The spray paint as primer was really good. It still have some problems that I am not satisfied with, but all in all it was much better to draw on with poscas.

Posca pen learning to draw

I have not been very good at using color in my drawings, but I have developed a love for Posca pens. I wanted to take my drawings to something like a canvas I could hang on the wall. Graphite pens are not good for that, so after some consideration, I desided to buy a few Posca pens and draw.

My first drawing was a rose.

I draw this on a piece of rather rough sketching paper. This wasn't a good idea. Although the picture turned out okay, the tip of the posca pens started to fall apart :-(

Easter cartoon drawing

This one is an easter cartoon I made the other day. When drawing this, the stripes inspired me to make another drawing, as it seems Mr. Egg looks rather fat with stripes running horizontal, and it lead me to...

Starting to draw

This is my first blog post, and I would like to tell you what my idea is with this. I have been drawing for some years now. It has been an on-off relationship. Drawing is fun, and I want to use this blog as a playground for all my drawing ideas. A place to gather my drawings, to learn and get better.

I have mainly been drawing with normal graphite pencils. When I started out learning, I wanted to draw realistic, but mostly my focus has been cartoon drawing - like the classic Gag-a-day you find in newspapers. I find this very fun. Cartoons is not about realism, it is about expressing ideas in a humorous way - so other people can understand what you mean.

I have been playing around with different medias over time. I have not been a big fan of color. I like the old style drawings in black and white. Shadows are created with lines, dots or just by colouring areas with black. As a result, I like to play with ink. I think ink drawing can give a specieal feeling. The problem with ink though, is that you can very easy make a mistake that is irreversible.

Lately I have been playing with Posca pens. This is very fun and I love drawing with them. This has come to stay!

I hope you will enjoy my playground, and feel free to give me feedback - both good and bad - so I can get better.