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I'm as I said we we started out just printer paper. Use something free. Get yourself going nice and cheap. But there are all kinds of other papers that you can use. Okay so for drawing with dry material dry mediums like just sketching. I like to use bristol board. It's very heavy weight and it's very smooth so you can really take some scrubbing, it can take a little bit of ink. I usually transfer any of my good drawings to something like that. Then you can also use all kinds of other papers. Um This is watercolor paper. I like to use arches hot press. And I draw on watercolor paper all the time because I don't necessarily know what I'm gonna end up doing to that drawing. So I'd like to leave the option of it being able to take some wet medium. So I buy this in big sheets and then I cut it down. I used to use I used to use a water color block. This is a watercolor block and this is the same paper only, it has glue on all the edges and so it stays down nice and flat. It's like I'm using ...
my clipboard only. I've taped down all the edges and that's lovely to have if you're traveling or something but it does get a little bit pricier so I just go with the plain sheets of the same thing now. Um if you're gonna be doing. Mhm. A lot of sketching which I hope you are. You need a sketchbook. So they come and any kind of shape size You know you can get a nice one with really high quality paper. The some old skin and I really love these because it's kind of yellow And so then if I do want any highlights to really pop I can put white on this paper um with papers a little heavier. So you're like okay well maybe that might be a little bit scary to start out with. You might want to stay with your thinner smoother stuff. You can also get a notebook in any shape. This one would kind of encourage you to do landscapes this way or figures that way. Mm I personally use this kind of notebook um Just because since I draw for a job any of my drawings usually end up on really good paper. So anything that ends up in here is just gonna be like a really basic sketch. So this has thinner paper and I could just get a bunch of them one for every project I'm doing. And just they carry around really easily. You do want to always carry your sketchbook with you As I shall do tracing paper. We've used that one and later on when we draw our next we're gonna use some Sorrel transfer paper. That's this and it comes in all these lovely colors and this is how you get your drawing from one place to another and move it around. This is I think this is called Canary Trace. I used to use this exclusively all the time. I just love this color texture. So I would do drawings on that and just leave them on that. Not bother transferring them to anything. Yeah. Um Let's go through the pencil kit that we have just a little bit. This is a pencil extender. What is this for? This is because I have tons and tons of these little pieces and I can't draw with them because I grip my pencil really hard. So you get a pencil extender and it just has this little slighty thing on there. You can stick your pencil in there. Um Sometimes you have to take it out of there to fit it in the pencil sharpener and then put it back in. Let's talk about pencil sharp. Oh wait here, this is another favorite, This is a black wing pencil and these are you know fancy pencils and you don't need a fancy pencil because you've already done some drawings without a fancy pencil. Um But sometimes they just feel so good in your hand and you just love the the tool, how it fits in the shape of it. Um So I encourage you to treat yourself a few times. Get a nice pencil but use it up. Don't just like I want to buy all the nice pencils. See if you can get a nice pencil and see if you can get it down to a little stub. That's the challenge. Um Then we saw the blenders, that's how you that's how you blend things you can as I said you know you can blend with with nothing. Just push the powder around. You can bend blend spit or you can blend with um Maybe a little bit of paint thinner or something like that if you really want to get it washi yeah um erasers. So we have this eraser no don't use that may be on the first day when your eraser just comes out of the box and it's brand new you can use that but you're going to draw. See this one's doing all right Let's see how my old one is. Usually what you'll do is just sort of draw a pinkish gray line when you use this and that's kind of what this tool does, draws a pinkish gray line. Um We're using this one. It's a plastic eraser sometimes called a vinyl eraser. It's my favourite one of the best. You do need to dust it off all the time. This is a kneaded eraser and they look like silly putty and they're fun to use. And so if you get a big mushy mark, the reason people like these um is because they don't leave any dust. That's the main reason um you can also shape them into a tiny little bit. I don't use them too much. They seem a little wobbly but they're really good for charcoal if you're doing a big charcoal drawing that's what everybody uses and then when they do get dirty like this, the reason they're called needed is because you just clean them up just by doing this needing thing and then you have this nice clean spot where you can start over couple more erasers. These are not necessary, but I do use them all the time. These are retractable erasers. So you can get a thicker one. No, they do get a little dirty um and then you can get a thin one. This one has a thin little eraser that comes out of it and I'll use this one if I just have a tiny little highlight that I want to pull out of something or I've got a really nice drawing and I just want to get a tiny little speck. I'll come in with this one but I kind of find these work a little bit better so I just use these when I need to get into a spot. Um, pencil sharpeners. So this is my favorite This one I only have to use if I'm traveling and I really need it because that's a little filly for me. Okay. Um They tend to clog up to, but this is a pretty good one this way you can, you can really see what you're doing better with this and stop when you want to. That's that's the main thing I find with pencil sharpeners is get one that doesn't tell you when it's done, you tell the pencil sharpener when your pencil is how you want it to be scientists, declare for a sharp pencil. You have one of those automatic ones, it stops. The pencil is not totally sharp. They stopped when it has a flat end on it. I like him really sharp. And then there's this whole way, this is the old artist way to sharpen a pencil, Get out your pocket knife and you have this dull broken pencil and you just start carving and this is a beautiful meditative thing. The reason you do this is because you have complete control over what shape you want your pencil to be. There are some people, I've seen pictures where they will carve the tip of the pencil to look like there's a little train running through a tunnel and in the lead or I have seen pencils with a little family of elephants from the mama to the baby just carved out of the pencil that we don't have to go that far. Um but what this is doing is you're meditating on the end of your pencil and you're carving it to be the exact shape you want. You get this thing to be a little bit longer than normal and you're resetting yourself, you're looking at your drawing, you're keeping your hands busy and any time you keep your hands busy, that's when you get your best ideas or you step back for a minute and you look, you're drawing and you think oh okay I should stop now. I was just about to do that other thing because I was kind of really into my drawing but actually now is the time to put it down. So you just keep going on your pencil carefully until you get the end nice and sharp and how you like it. That's kind of if you want to be like the artist wearing the smog, we talked about the dusting brush, don't leave this on your paper to do that or to get on your hands. I just brush it into my lap. So I always stand up at the end of the day and shake out because I could brush it that way but then usually I'll get it, it'll come back on my paper. So I brush it into my lap. Use this one too, that's the free one are are 90 cent version. Um And then I have washing tape, I always use this because this won't rip your paper and I always just tape down the edges of my paper with that like that so that if you do start really smudging your paper won't move
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