> I've acquired a desire to draw/sketch/(whatever you wanna call my
> crap i put out) and have wondered... What is the hardware you guys
> use? pencils, pens, paper, drawing surface. since I'm just starting
> out, i haven't gotten much supplies in this line and have been using
> some of my Drafting supplies every once in a while when i feel bold
> enough to waste some Vellum. But in all honesty i would love to
> know...I'm getting a drawing table soon so i can do my drafting
> homework at home (im in college right now), and don't wanna waste my
> money on something thats gonna be crap for the job or be useless in
> a matter of days/weeks. any recomendations/cautions are welcome,
> even requests to see any drawings I've done... even though the only
> people who have seen them are Scrapper and my sister (unless you
> noticed any of the old ones i posted and deleted a few days later a
> while ago)
Firstly, if you're learning, paper of choice is never a waste.
Tool wise the spread I use really depends on what I'm doing - for most
of my line work I use either Faber Castel Mechanical drawing/drafting
pencils, or the older Staedler Mars mechanical drafting ones. I have both in
.3, but I do also use a .5 steadler for thicker lines. For inking, I use
either Speedball nibs (rarely), or the Copic .too inking system. I also use
a light table to dupe my images so the ink lines are much cleaner on the
final - you can probably do much the same with a computer, mind you, but I
don't know enough about the technique.
For color work it really depends on what I'm trying to get - pastels and
soft pencils for a softer look, copic markers for that nice solid look, or a
mix of copic and pencil to get subtile shadings and the like. The color
pencils I use are Faber Castel, which, along with Copic, makes for the
staple of my supplies, for the most part.
My advice is to experiment a bit - buy some decent mechanical drafting
pencils, buy some wood sketch pencils (sets are pretty cheap - faber castel
sells a nice one, with carrying case, for pretty cheap), and look into
getting a range of colro pencils from a variety of manufacturers. They are
sold seperatly, and if you by the same range from each, you can get a feel
for how each performs, -and- develop a taste for what you like.
Every artist is different, every artist will have things they like to
use. I know someone who loves using brushes to ink their work - it comes out
beautifully. Me? I can't do that - for some reason, when I try working with
a brush, while it comes out passible, I don't have the hand control to
actually make it look good.
Akal Ashata Alis
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