What Do You Use?

[toonMom]

What materials do you use for your caricature (or other) drawings?



Here's what I use:

For caricatures
I use a Creatacolor lead holder with 2b, 4b, or 6b lead.
paper - cheap sketchbook - 80lb
marker sketches - papermate flet tip (fine)
Prismacolor colored pencils

Portraits
I use 2b, 4b, hb, 2h graphite pencil
Bristol smooth paper
blending stump or facial tissue for smudging

I also have a couple of different weight card stock paper, I use those mostly for colored pencil work.

[Joey]

Hi toonmom,

I think I am responding to a old post however let me see if I can get it started again.

Since I recently started drawing and have not had a chance to buy some basic essentials, all I am using is:

- #2 pencil with eraser
- a 50 sheet drawing pad

very basic as you can see.

My wife saw me "eyeballing" a Graphire 3 at a photo store here in N.Y. and I think she is getting it for me
XMAS

ToonMom, as you asked I will sak too.......what is everone else using......... beginners like me and advanced like you ....... what do you use to draw?

Joey

[donpinsent]

live caricatures- exclusively bullet-point markette markers.

studio caricatures- base sketch usually with carmine red (#20045) col-erase pencil, just because i really like its consistency; final colours in prismacolor coloured pencils. usually. my van gogh was done with oil pastels, and my che guevara was done in flash.

[Ricky]

You caricature kit is really all you need. It doesn't matter the toys er, I mean tools you use - it's what you do with them is what really counts. However, I so hope you get that graphire 3 tablet for xmas, it's awesome. I got one last year and I must say that you can go from graffiti art to airbrush to oil paints in just a few clicks. Though I haven't really used it much because I still haven't figured it out yet. But I'm going back to it.

I use:

Portraits:
bristol smooth 9 x 12 paper
tortillion for blending
prismacolor torquois pencils 2h, 4h, hb, 3b, 6b and 9b

caricatures:
cheap copy paper
prismacolor colored pencils
prismacolor torquois pencils HB, 2B, 6B, 9B

[lightshifter]

2b to 6b pencils for initial drawing, color some pastel sticks or color stixs. recently started using Caron d Arch Neo colored caryons, quite versatile and not as messy as pastels. Some pen Tombow usually. Normally what ever works. Trying the computer lately, that does not work for me yet.

[Joey]

What is the difference between HB, 2B XB, XB PENCILS?

Just curious so when I go and buy I am not that ignorant in the art store.

Any suggestions for a starter color set of pencils or should I buy them individually?

Thanks everyone.
Joey

[donpinsent]

the difference is the hardness of the lead. the higher the "b" count, the softer the lead, and therefore the darker the line, and the faster the pencil will wear down, and the easier it will smudge. hb is right in the middle, and anything with an h (h, 2h, 3h, etc.) is harder trhe higher the number. h pencils are not ideal for drawring, unless you're doing very precise stuff like architectural drawrings.

[vtslim]

I use a house paint roller and my cat. I roll on the color (always red) and pick out the highlights with my cat.
He doesn't mind as the paint is non-toxic and tuna flavored.

-Slim
;D
Here's my kit