Graphite
A Knight is nothing with out his armor and weapons. To draw, a pencil with an eraser is not the only thing you will be needing. You are going to need the proper tools to be able to perform well and with no frustrations. You will want to acquire a pencil with hard lead, since a hard lead does not leave material on the page at the moment you have to erase and it makes it easier. With a soft lead the material is more and you use it up quicker, and is going to be more difficult for you to ink over it. The reason is that wet ink particle tend to roll up the surface. These pencil (4) comes in multiples arrangements of density from 2H (hardest) to 6B (very soft). Now, don't get confused! the hard lead look very light when you draw and the soft the opposite.
Mechanical
These pencil (1) are also available in a variety of leads, and have a big advantage over the graphite pencils- you never have to sharpen them. Lead holders (2) are basically big mechanicals that hold longer, thicker graphite, but they require constant sharpening.
Blue Pencil
There are a lot of Comic Artist that use this pencil (3). I use to do layouts and then go back to re-work them. The blue lead doesn't show up so easily when scanned as a Bitmap File or Black & White.
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Erasers
Of course, no one is perfect. There will be time in which you will have to use an eraser. A the beginning is going to be very common that you will waste your pencils eraser. Try not to get use to using it since you wont be doing it for ever, once you finally become a pro!
Kneadable (1)
This rubber eraser picks up pencil lines after a piece has been inked. the cool thing about it is that you can mold it into different shapes in other to clean up large or small areas and are virtually crumb-free.
Art Gum (2)
A softer eraser that crumbles easily, but treats you surface more gently the standard Pink Pearl Eraser. Inkwork on top of an area gritted-up by an eraser can bleed heavily, and the Art Gum helps avoid this problem.
Pink Pearl (3)
This one is dependable for erasing pencil lines, but it can get a little crummy and smeary if you're not careful.
White Vinyl (4)
This is my favorite one! Is the must use correction tool because is the gentlest of the erasers. It works well over ink, doesn't crumble and last longer.
Dry Cleaning Pad (5)
This thin cotton bag full of minced eraser particles is no much of an eraser... is more like a smudging tool; The porous surface lets the particles leak out, so that if you are using tools like T-squares and rulers, they'll just glide over the particles rather than scraping against the page.
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Drawing Tools
Unless you are some kind of freak of nature, you'll be needing help drawing straight lines and perfect circles. You're tools should be a T-square (1), Triangles (2), Templates for various shapes (3), and a mechanical compass (4), plus a standard sponge (5), and a cloth rag (6), for piking up spills and keeping tools clean.
You always want to maintain everything in order and clean. by doing that your work will come out nice and clean, you will work more comfortably and you will feel more professional. keeping you self-esteem high is a big contribution to become a grate artist.
A Knight is nothing with out his armor and weapons. To draw, a pencil with an eraser is not the only thing you will be needing. You are going to need the proper tools to be able to perform well and with no frustrations. You will want to acquire a pencil with hard lead, since a hard lead does not leave material on the page at the moment you have to erase and it makes it easier. With a soft lead the material is more and you use it up quicker, and is going to be more difficult for you to ink over it. The reason is that wet ink particle tend to roll up the surface. These pencil (4) comes in multiples arrangements of density from 2H (hardest) to 6B (very soft). Now, don't get confused! the hard lead look very light when you draw and the soft the opposite.Mechanical
These pencil (1) are also available in a variety of leads, and have a big advantage over the graphite pencils- you never have to sharpen them. Lead holders (2) are basically big mechanicals that hold longer, thicker graphite, but they require constant sharpening.
Blue Pencil
There are a lot of Comic Artist that use this pencil (3). I use to do layouts and then go back to re-work them. The blue lead doesn't show up so easily when scanned as a Bitmap File or Black & White.
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Erasers
Of course, no one is perfect. There will be time in which you will have to use an eraser. A the beginning is going to be very common that you will waste your pencils eraser. Try not to get use to using it since you wont be doing it for ever, once you finally become a pro!
Kneadable (1)
This rubber eraser picks up pencil lines after a piece has been inked. the cool thing about it is that you can mold it into different shapes in other to clean up large or small areas and are virtually crumb-free.
Art Gum (2)
A softer eraser that crumbles easily, but treats you surface more gently the standard Pink Pearl Eraser. Inkwork on top of an area gritted-up by an eraser can bleed heavily, and the Art Gum helps avoid this problem.
Pink Pearl (3)
This one is dependable for erasing pencil lines, but it can get a little crummy and smeary if you're not careful.
White Vinyl (4)
This is my favorite one! Is the must use correction tool because is the gentlest of the erasers. It works well over ink, doesn't crumble and last longer.
Dry Cleaning Pad (5)
This thin cotton bag full of minced eraser particles is no much of an eraser... is more like a smudging tool; The porous surface lets the particles leak out, so that if you are using tools like T-squares and rulers, they'll just glide over the particles rather than scraping against the page.
_________________________________________________________________________________
Drawing Tools
Unless you are some kind of freak of nature, you'll be needing help drawing straight lines and perfect circles. You're tools should be a T-square (1), Triangles (2), Templates for various shapes (3), and a mechanical compass (4), plus a standard sponge (5), and a cloth rag (6), for piking up spills and keeping tools clean.
You always want to maintain everything in order and clean. by doing that your work will come out nice and clean, you will work more comfortably and you will feel more professional. keeping you self-esteem high is a big contribution to become a grate artist.
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