Art Supplies
Art Supplies you will need to get started in making amazing drawings
Must Have Art Supplies For Beginners
Basic and professional Drawing products/materials and their uses
Drawing Pencils
For starting out your practice in drawing you should first look for pencils that are specially made for drawing purposes.
There are different types of pencils when it comes to drawing
SOFT PENCIL – 2B, 4B, 6B, 8B
MEDIUM HARD – HB (Basic pencil which everyone uses)
HARD PENCILS – 2H, 4H, 6H, 8H
The soft pencils are the darkest one and because of its softness it gets easily applied on the paper without much pressure.
The higher number you go on the soft pencils the darker pencil it is.
All the major drawing including shading is done by the soft pencils,
The medium pencil is used for outlining the drawing and the hard pencil is used for very minute details.
Charcoal Pencils
When you want to create a high-contrast drawing with real-looking dark shadows the graphite drawing pencils are not enough.
You have to get your hands on the charcoal pencils.
You have to use these pencils on very dark shadows and darker areas to just pop the light area and this thing can give your drawing a realistic or life-like feel.
Charcoal pencils also come in three types:-
SOFT CHARCOAL PENCIL – For shading or filling big areas, because of its softness you can manipulate the darkness by handling your hand pressure.
MEDIUM CHARCOAL PENCIL – For small areas or details, it has a medium strength so it doesn’t spread charcoal too much on the paper, so you can handle it in smaller areas.
HARD CHARCOAL PENCIL – Just like graphite pencils these hard pencils are also for very small details like drawing hair strands or skin texture.
It is very hardened charcoal so you also have to apply hard pressure to get something out of it.
Hi-Polymer Block Eraser
This is for normal erasing work, But there are various types of an eraser on the market which we don’t know about.
Usually, erasers are made up of a different or hard kind of rubber,
and because of it when we use it on our drawing it starts to pluck our paper texture and ruining our hours of work.
Go for any high polymer eraser so that even if we do mistakes on our drawing we can rub it off and enjoy our drawing-making process.
Paper Stumps
Paper stumps are a blending tool widely used by all artists to smooth out or blend the shading area and make the gradation look seamless.
To use this tool first apply the drawing pencil or graphite pencil to the area you want and then over that area in a circular motion by applying very little pressure try to blend the graphite on the paper till the transition of the graphite looks smooth.
If you didn’t get the necessary effect then repeat the process by applying the pencil and then again using the paper stumps over it.
Particularly if you don’t have paper stumps you can make it on your own by following some DIY articles, or you can also use cotton or soft tissue paper for it.
Mechanical pencil
Mechanical pencils are used as a starter because it has a very fine and soft line,
we can construct our drawing and give a structure by making an outline base after we are happy with the outline or structure of our drawing we can start using the drawing pencils to make the structure more prominent.
You can also use these pencils for minute details, these mechanical pencils also come in darker and lighter shades.
Kneaded Eraser
This is a Kneaded eraser mostly like in a clay form, Because of its form, it’s a versatile eraser.
If apply the correct pressure we can use it to remove the excessive dark from the particular area on the drawing, unlike any other eraser which is used to rub out everything.
As it is like a clay form you can mold it in many different shapes and you can use it to give details to drawing by rubbing the graphite in a particular way.
It is a must eraser to create any type of textures in the drawing you will love how easy is to create textures with this kneaded eraser.