This is all excellent advice. I have Studied with Kurt for three years now and I’ve learned he’s 100% right when it comes to these simple tools for drawing If you’re starting out Get yourself these tools. Play around with them and do yourself a favor and subscribe and follow along with these lessons.
The main takeaway is indeed the fact that you dont need the best materials to begin enjoying the sketchbook process. Id like to say that I swear by the U.S.A titanium pencil. I find them at my local walmart. Its a standard school #2 (being HB; the middle of the graphite scale) but it seems that its on the darker (softer lead) side of things, and for that I love it. As opposed to a dixon ticonderoga. I find them (at least, the black wood case ones) to be faint/light, leaning toward the harder lead side of things. Im using computer copy paper which is smooth, though. A toothy/textured sketch/drawing paper will grab more graphite and leave a darker line. If I were to get a bic or mechanical pencil, Id get a 0.5 and use its small size for details. Full agree with everything else though. The crayola pencils, the winsor paint, the bic pens.
Any medium. You will have some bleed through, that will have to be trial and error. Most of my sketchbooks I have uses crayola color pencils (great for sketching), ball point pen, mechanical pencils and a little watercolor. If I can help you in any way Colin, feel free to reach out to me.
@@adadwhodraws Hi, thanks for the reply. I got no delusions. I don't see it getting any better. I've been drawing since I was 12. That was 50 years ago. I can refine a drawing to look okay in the end. That's how I cheated my way through 25 or so years as a tattoo and airbrush artist. But I accept that I will never be able to sketch coherently. 😎
