I used Blick Studio Brush Markers. They are great. If you have a Blick's art supply where you are I would recommend giving them a try. The downside is they only have 96 colors, which seems like a lot, and is a decent amount, but I do find there are colors I want that aren't available. Blick's also has a website.
Here's my process. I just used regular sketch paper, it's 100lbs, not really the best for markers in my opinion but I don't have any proper marker paper.
My initial sketch and some ink.
Adding some color.
I was trying to render some flames. I think I would approach this differently if I could do it over, I have never done flames with marker so I wasn't sure what steps to do for that.
Now I decided to add some smoke rising. I also try and accentuate the character in front of the fire, to give her a glow from the light of the flames.
Plenty of times I thought maybe I should stop where I was at, but I felt like there needed to be some more of a dramatic background.
And the final image.
Thank you for looking 😁