Art supplies. What's in your stash?

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Jun 23, 2003
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I have two little kids school pencil boxex full of mainly colored pencils which I never use and some markers that are all dried up.

What types of pencils do you use for drawing. I prefer mechanical pencils. Dont care about the lead size. And for an eraser, I hate the ones on the pencils. I prefer one of the rectangular ones.

My roomate has a big glass table and I put a lamp under it when I trace things. I keep it ghetto.

For my pics I have a poloroid 3 mp. Yeah you know that shit is hardcore.

I have this one tight ass marker. It doesnt have a label. It's all silver and writes thick and dark as hell. And it leaves a burning feeling in your nose after you smell it. Better than coke.

So what types of products do you use and shit. I need to hitup michaels and go on a shoppin spree.

I do alot of pencil drawing. Are the shading kits worth buying? I cant tell the difference between the 15 pencils it comes with. THey all look just as dark.

Also what kind of paint do I buy If I wanted to paint on one of those canvas things, cause I dont want the shit to peel.
 
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I don't draw as much anymore, all my shits digital:

17" iMac G5 - 2GHz/1GB Ram/160GB Hard Drive
13" MacBook - 2GHz/1GB Ram/80GB Hard Drive
Wacom Intuos3 Tablet - 6x8 (USB)
Wireless Keyboard
Wireless Mighty Mouse (x2)
Canon iP4000 Printer
Canon LIDE80 Scanner
 
Jan 2, 2003
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Mechanical pencils are my weapon of choice...I do most of my work with them bitches.....

The shading kits are cool too...In my opinion thou, they're just a waste of money...
U only really need 4 or 5 of them....
6B, 2B, HB, F, 3H. (as long as you got a nice range of tones)
 
May 9, 2006
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i got hella shit...
acrylic paint
oil paint
watercolors
gouche paint
charcoal pencil
conte crayons
brushes for days
turp
liqiun
palette knives
plastic, wood, glass, and disposable palletts
gesso
prismacolor markers
charcoal pencils
kneaded erasers
chamois cloths
choarcoal paper, news print, sketch paper, bristol board, canson black board...

theres more but that all i can think of
 
Jun 25, 2005
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mamaCITAZ65o said:
i got hella shit...
acrylic paint
oil paint
watercolors
gouche paint
charcoal pencil
conte crayons
brushes for days
turp
liqiun
palette knives
plastic, wood, glass, and disposable palletts
gesso
prismacolor markers
charcoal pencils
kneaded erasers
chamois cloths
choarcoal paper, news print, sketch paper, bristol board, canson black board...

theres more but that all i can think of
Shit me too! I got 3 full ass art bins!

For traditional I got:
Charcoal
vine charcoal
charcoal pencils
lead pencils 2-6B HB all dat shit
Conte crayons
Prismacolor pencils
hella ink pens regular and olskool
Oil paints and hella brushes
Acrylic paints n hella brushes
Chavant modeling clay
Hella sculpting tools
illustration boards
For photography I got:
Canon Digital Rebel Xt
3 diff lenses and 1 fisheye adaptor
3 Muslin backdrops
2 strobe flashes master and slave
2 softboxes
Digital I got:
17" Mac Power Book G4 wit 1gig RAM
Photoshop CS2, Painter 9.5, Illustrator CS2, Etc, Final Cut Pro HD
Wacom Intuos 4x5

Shit I think dat basically covers it.....
 
Jun 23, 2003
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Can you elaborate what a few of those are. LIke the crayons, and some of the other types of paints and stuff. And how they are used and what for and what not.

Thanks.

I am trying to expand whatever it is that you call it. I guess medium that I am using.
 
May 9, 2006
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i use conte crayons for when i'm doing a classic charcoal drawing..
i always mix mediums. i'll use a soft vine charcoal first, then a compressed charcoal, might pull out the black chalk or a 2b, 4b charcoal pencil. the black crayons are good for getting that really really black value. the red, white, and tan ones are good on toned paper

oil paintings are my fav because you can work on it for days ( it takes about 4 days to a week to dry) so u can always correct whatever it is you're painting. It gets a lil messy and smells.

i like using acrylics for easy "flat" pictures

i only use water colors in my sketchbook to add color that would do justice to a nice simple sketch.