Toreador is a black Arabian stallion. This was drawn as my half of an art trade between myself and Jhatonna Turner.

Initially I wanted to do another experiment with pastels, but decided to try another medium that I haven't had much practise with recently: markers. This is prisma and tria markers on some outstanding marker paper made by Borden and Riley (#234 Paris Bleedproof paper for pens). Of course, normally it is bleed-proof, but I abused it rather thoroughly working to "lift" one area on the ground and managed to get it to bleed. Apart from that the paper is amazing and makes marker work much easier. However, it is hyper-bright and you can't use gouache, acrylics, or a white gel-pen to remove mistakes without being able to see exactly where it was.

I'm very happy with how this turned out. I probably should have pushed the dark a bit more, but I was hesitant to kill some of the detail.

Image is © CERT, Toreador is the intellectual property of J. Turner