How to combine traditional and digital media in art

Watch this video tutorial as artist Merrill Kazanjian show you how to combine traditional and digital media in art. He breaks down how he makes one of his artworks. Merrill had been a teacher for more than seven years and is sharing his artistic processes with the world!

"The process is:

Step 1: Look for interesting facial features (eyes, noses and mouths; even ears) from different photographs and juxtapose them on a piece of paper.

Step 2: Make an oval for the head and paste down the facial features. The eyes should be in the middle of the oval.

Step 3: Scan what you have so far and reprint it in color on a separate sheet of paper. In other words, scan it and reprint it so that you work on a flat surface.

Step 4: Use Paint Markers and Illustration markers to tie everything together. I used Decocolor and Prismacolor markers for this picture, acrylic paint would work equally well. Whatever you choose, the point of the 4th step is to make everything look smooth."