two kinds of traditional artists... 

Drawing 2B with a 2B pencil. Very clever.

As an artist who draws with tools I found in the trash. This is very accurate

As someone who draws half and half in digital and traditional, I can say that the best rubber I own i stole from a child at the summer camp I work at

Me, a digital artist: I use the same thickness for everything, just different brushes

The second one is so accurate, one time I got desperate and I ended up drawing on a juice box.

Being able to draw a portrait of Rick Astley on toilet paper with just a stolen pencil requires great talent dude.

The optimal equipment set up: 1. Old mechanical pencil 2. Old notebook or sketchbook 3. An incredibly boring morning college lecture 4. Minimal sleep prior to class

be able to draw with anything anywhere and making it look good is the real thing here. I once drew a portrait of my friend using a toothpick and molten chocolate as ink from his birthday cake on a napkin

Number 2 is very relatable...but I think being able to draw on a toilet paper is something of a godly talent

remember: if its in the classroom floor when everyone else is gone, that only means its previous owner didn't protect it enough and it's gonna get thrown away if you don't take it (especially if it's a really nice sakura micron pen)

Meanwhile i use random pencils that are used for writing for drawing. One for anatomy and shading and one for the lineart

I just kinda grab whatever makes the most sense to me in the moment I'm just sketching for fun? Whatever pencil has lead I want a fully colored drawing? If I want it to look nice, I'll break out the nice colors, but most of the time I'm just gonna grab the first medium I see

I'm digital now, but when I draw traditional I was like a weird hobo combination of the 2. Different pencils of all kind, ink pens and colours but all cheap. Like i use disposable ink pens and if I run out of 0.5, I use a normal bic pen. I might share my marker selection with my three year old nephew, use abandoned A4/A3 printing paper from where I worked and keep a pencil until is like 1 cm long. The cool thing is that you slowly lose your sanity, thus you get more creative. Also learn weird techniques, like combining pen shading with colored pencils makes for a cool shading effect. Or using the fresh blood of your scraped index finger (got from using a pencil too short) as a cool distortion effect (don't do it, I was desperate.).

I’ve always liked mechanical pencils the most. It’s a lot easier to be precise with them than it is with a wooden one.

I love that their art styles reflect the deeper meanings here.

I just use the pencil and colored pencils i got from school to draw and can actually shade with them very well as they’re cheap asf 😭

It doesn’t matter what kind of art supplies you have as long as you are passionate enough to create ART.

My family keeps wanting me to use fancy pencils, but I really don't care. What about when I doodle in class? I don't wanna whip out a whole new pencil for that

Every artist can make beautiful art no matter what supplies they use

Am I allowed to be a mixture…? I have some pretty cool art supplies, but I always use the weirdest cheapest stuff around my house and end up with 10/10 results 😩😩😩 THE STOLEN PENCIL THO- FACTS.

as an "artist" whose drawing skills are borderline acceptable, any type of drawing utensil works. even if your pencil is a stick from some park you found and your paper is the ground you're standing on, it's still art as long as you enjoy it

As a artist who draws with whatever spawns in my drawer I can confirm that this is true

I draw on anything i can get my hands on, plain paper, lined paper, grid paper, TABLES... the things i use to draw is the same, pencils, pens, crayon, marker, etc

This is soo true!! I like traditional art, still didn't adapted to digital yet. Man, i have a ton of pencils, like: HB, 2B, 4B, 6B... But when i draw, i always pick the same 2B and use it for the entire draw, sometimes, if a want a ligher shade, i use a random pencil that i don't even know from where came or what type of pencil is I only had this pencil in my school pencil case and I gave up using it because it's too light, then started using for draws only in rare ocasions... But the old 2B that i use for more than 7 years is my true king!

the mechanical pencil without the eraser hits different

I remember one time in high school a kid asked what kind of pencil I used to draw because he wanted to draw like me. And I literally used a cheap mechanical pencil that I found on the hallway floor. It doesn’t matter what assets you have, if you’re passionate enough, you can create incredible things.

This is relatable as an artist when you experience it, though i tried many different kind of coloring materials that suit my point of view as well as other utensils. When you feel like you're lacking something you just want to buy fashionable utensils that suits your art style because i noticed no matter what type of tools or materials you use doesn't actually mean it'll i'mprove your art, so basically start at beginning and go on slowly no need to rush you'll improve soon

I’m both, I have so many unique and helpful art supplies but I have no idea where any of them are so I just use whatever I find under my bed

I draw digitally. But I don’t use clipping masks and erase the shit that goes over my lineart manually cause I think it’s fun : )

As someone that can draw horribly, every time I read the comments on ronillust’s videos I feel like I’m breaking into a society where everyone is just extremely talented and I just gotta blend in and pretend I’m good at art

I will literally draw on any surface with any pencil, love those thick pencils with 'grainy' lines 😍

number 2 is so relatable, I sometimes use a ball point pen to draw on toilet paper whenever a sketchbook finishes

I have got so many good art supplies from the floor. One was a beautiful paint pen worth around $6 for ONE... sucks to whoever lost it 🤷‍♀️

studied art in college for two years, my favorite tools are still the random unbranded mechanical pencil ive had for 10 years, a random (to be fair, at least student grade) sketchbook, and an eraser i literally found on the ground near a bush during orientation. All my expensive supplies are packed neatly into a box somewhere, untouched after using them for the last time in class.

the second is so real. like, i draw with random high school stuff i've found there and there (i'm 23) and when i don't have paper anymore, i draw on my furnitures. recently i bought a lil cutie box with different pencils inside, i didn't use the pencils but there are drawings on the box

I have some of the supplies seen in the first kind, but I specifically do traditional art by sketching with a 10H pencil, erasing with either a smooth normal eraser, or a kneadable one, coloring with some well stored oil pencils and a small set of prismacolor premier soft ones, outlining with either some random led pencil or a black ballpoint pen, and drawing on a ripped cover for a large hardcover book with some paper stolen from where my house's two printers sit.

As the kid that had PrismaColors in art class that EVERYONE wanted to borrow, I can confirm this is accurate.

Yea I'm over here drawing with a pencil and sticky notes. Wish fancy paper and copics were affordable because the art I've seen with copics look top tier

Sometimes the limits we have lead to invitation and progress never before seen.

both are literally so accurate to me

The beauty of art is that you can use pretty much anything

I don't color traditionally very often, but when I do I genuinely love using Crayola crayons (as in the kind you give to kindergarteners). They don't smudge, come in near-infinite colors, and cost next to nothing!

Just a gem of a video

The best part about this is that my favourite drawing pencil is one I found on the floor during my a level literature class

I once saw a classmate(we were on the "visual arts" specialty of our school) draw a masterpiece with dots made with the cheapest pen on a disposable foamy cup that the drugstore owner gave to him when buying himself a coffee for literally a few coins of our local money. That guy and the scrapbooking community here on youtube teached me that every trash you can find is literally an art material waiting to be discovered, lmao.

i like to use office materials. they’re made for efficiency, while also being cheap and simple. colorful ballpoint pens are a lot of fun and when you try and color your stuff in the style of a comic book they can add a lot of fun color pops. if you’re looking for bolder fills, i like to use crayola markers. they’re cheap, easy to use, washable, and dynamic. my go-to for paper has always been postit notes. it’s great for artists who come up with ideas at random because you can carry a pad of them in your jean pocket, quickly sketch something, then discard it if it doesn’t turn out right. i also have a lot of fun using them as final canvases because their size means i can finish a piece before i have time to second guess, and i have fun playing with different colored backgrounds for my art. in terms of pencils i like the uniformity and reliability of the bic mechanical pencil, as well as how fine the tip is. it’s always really intriguing to me how people in the art world react to my material choices with awe or envy, or misperceive me as being a monastic snob who thinks “true talent doesn’t need to hide behind fancy materials”, because the whole reason i use these is because i have clinical dysgraphia and grew up believing that for me to use supplies that cost a lot of money was just inherently wasteful, and it would be more conscientious of me to outlet my pent up creativity on everyone else’s scraps. and the reason i do so well with these is because I’m a stylized cartoonist, not a realistic or high-render artist, and because of my material choices i’ll probably never make large improvements in those areas. i will say though that one definite advantage of being a supply omnivore is that you not only spend less money, you also become very adaptable and able to roll with the stuff that your surroundings have on hand.

my fav pens are always random ones i picked up from the ground

Me, my paper mate pencil, and notebook paper are def going places.

In the end, all we need to survive is a 2B pencil and anything paper

I like how you can also use this with digital artists- like how there’s people with super high-quality drawing tablets with super complex and expensive programs on their computer, and I’m over here with an iPad mini 4, a free program, and my finger

I can do both, I got expensive supplies, markers and all that and then I have also drawn good stuff with a ballpointpen that I found on the ground once

Number two is SO me! whenever i draw something traditionally, i literally have no color pencils, markers or anything to color with! my sister has alot but she hides them from me.

The first one sounds like a dream and the second one sounds like my true purpose in life.

This video is a special ode to the mechanical pencil I took from my teacher and used throughout all of middle school. It was stepped on, chewed, lost and found several times, broken, thrown off a building once, and ALMOST eaten by my dog. I still have it

The best pencil I ever had I found under the school desk

This has been in my recommended for 11 months

The fact that a digital art program such as Krita would cost my life savings if it was traditional art scares me.

There are so many talented artists in this world that negate good materials that people forget that having good materials makes a *HUGE* difference when it comes to improvement. Whether you like it or not, having good materials will make you improve much faster. Heck, I've been stuck for a long ass time and couldn't improve my coloring skill because I only got cheap color pencils, but when I got my first prisma, I improved like I was in my puberty or something.

Can confirm I draw with a pencil that has tape in the middle holding it together bc I wanted to see how hard it took to break it in half and crayola super tips that I love with all my heart.

The second group are usually super gifted artists.

Art is art! No matter the cost of materials! Go ham artists, don't feel that you gotta break the bank But if you can and it makes you happy, power to you! And if you can't afford, you are still just as much of an artist! It is your vision, emotion and effort that will truly shine no matter the material

I know this feeling lol. When I started out in art, I got Jazza’s arty box. very helpful stuff. Also wished for alcohol markers, pencils, the works, for christmas. I have a huge drawer full of ink pens, half of which ran out, and someone once bought me a 45 set high quality watercolours. My preferred medium is a random chisel brush I found, my trusty 12-set watercolours I got from my mom that are literally older than me, and one of those magic coloured pencils with three different colours in the tip-

And the ones who draw on toilet paper make the sickest art

I have frequently been stopped from my attempts to draw by not having a single writing or drawing utensil in the house

My family, very supporting of my art, has gotten me plenty of different fancy-sounding art supplies over the years. I still draw primarily just with one set of those .5 .10 whatever markers and a Happy Easter pencil. My eraser is shaped like a ninja.

As someone who has used both, supplies only matter for the quality of the colors and textures. Prismacolor pencils for example are incredibly vibrant wnd beautiful. High in pigments. Compared to cheap 1€ ones. Will it make you a better artist? No. will it improve what you are already capable of? Yes.

I use the same pencils I bought for a dollar 2 years ago and a kneadable eraser, it works for me bc I get to focus more on my work and less on the tools I use

This is the definition of me and my friend

As an artist who can't buy any artist kit, i can confirm i use my school materials to draw

the mechanical pencils from the floor of the freshmen halls hit different bro

1 is me when it comes to school assignments for art, 2nd is me for personal art

i paint in digital with only 1 layers 🗿 Edit:well its true i did paint in 1 layer for many months and idk how to stop it pls help me

I'm like a weird mix of the two. I have some Prismacolors, Copic markers, high end ink pens....but I almost exclusively sketch out/doodle everything with a cheap, dollar store mechanical pencil on these (also cheap) sketchbooks from my local Hobby Lobby. Edited for clarity.

I take any random pencil when I see a piece of paper and start drawing lol

I spent about half an hour looking for a purple marker/pencil a few days ago and couldnt find one so i just took a random marker i found in a school desk

I had a friend who once bragged about doing art with a fancy pencil that you could shake to get the tip to come out more. Now, years later, I own one of those pencils because I found it in the floor of the college lecture hall :)

Bro literally drew a GIF, he's unstoppable

you gotta do one for the digital artists out there!!

Mechanical pencil on binder paper is my JAM

The best drawings I had ever done in my life were back in high school using lined paper torn out of a notebook or a page ripped from a dollar store sketchbook, and using literally a mechanical pencil. I once even taped two sheets together because I needed more space on the bottom due to how big I made the character. That one’s folded in half inside of the binder I put it in alongside the rest. To be fair, though, you probably should use proper drawing pencils, especially if you’re planning on shading your drawings. I did one where I pressed so hard into the page for those darker tones, the whole thing glows like holographic trading card when you hold it up to the light. These days, I’m rocking a sketchbook and a basic kit of artist tools - a few graphite pencils, a couple charcoal pencils (unused), a sharpener, and vinyl / kneaded erasers - both from Five & Below. I also found a 12-count set of 2H - 12B pencils at Hobby Lobby that I got for about $10 as part of a 40% off sale. (Those ones draw a lot smoother than the ones from the kit.)

Imo, the best artists are the resourceful ones who use what they have at hand

I've done both. They are both very lovely. First one results in higher quality, but the second one results in higher quantity.

Make that chewed up pencil have no eraser and it’s spot on

I once found an amazing 5B pencil at my school, it was used for all of my portraits since I found it. when it got kinda used up I bought a pack of them. you really find the best tools at random places lmao

I always like when people draw with unconventional tools. As a kid, I would draw on the walls of our house with leaves (and flowers for color variation). I would rub them on the concrete wall and they’d leave stains. I also drew on restaurant tissue papers, on school properties and text books (vandalism ik but I didn’t know better and I didn’t get caught anyways 🤭) I find the idea of leaving a part of yourself behind to let others find and know you’ve been there fascinating and fun.

Made me chuckle because I've been drawn with that same random mechanical pencil I found in school for years 'till it broke, and I'm not sure I've ever bought proper paper to draw on. 😂

I just raid the supply closet for whatever medium I need in my art projects

No importa que tan bueno y conocido seas, todos dibujamos en hojas de oficio con un lápiz escolar

I've always wanted an excuse to use all the fancy, situational pencils, to the point where I have a pack or two at home. But I honestly just don't have the skill for it, so good ol' school pencil works for now.

My primary tool for making most of my art is the plain blue ballpoint pen, occasionally I use color pen set for cca 1.25 dollars. Occasionally I use pencil at school because cetrain teachers want us to.

I'm literally the second one, I have one completely and utterly disfigured and chewed on pencil which is my to go pencil like ALWAYS

I reached a point where i have all kinds of traditional materials and i am relearning drawing in general from the start, though i have been drawing for i dunno how many years, like 5-10. And at this moment i more wish to be the last guy and trying to be. I now just try to use whatever materials i have nearby, experimenting, like trying highlighter markers with color pencils. The idea, mainly, is just to draw, and if your perfectionism stoping you from so, fight it by doing quantity over quality sketches. And by making deliberate ugly,or extra quick drawings.

RU-vid artist vs Real artist

As a traditional artist, this is very accurate.

I personally like to use the special drawing mechanical pencils. If I drew one good thing with a mechanical pencil, that one is blessed and I use it till it dies. So far, only the slightly broken ones I've found on the floors of buildings seem to be blessed.

my favourite drawing tool is that multicolour ballpoint pen that every kid tries to push all colours at once

I mostly sketch and study with digital. But for an actual illustration. I like to go back to traditional after careful planning. I usually just use watercolor and some simple pens. I like traditional manga methods. Have something physical is fun. And then i just digitze it with a photo. Markers and marker paper always seemed kind of odd to me. Some mediums require really specific supplies.

That is what i want to become. An artist that can draw anything with anything.

Bought a bunch of fancy art supplies to sketch and ended up almost never using them in favor of my trusty old dollar store mechanical pencils, mutilated tortellion, and extensive collection of eraser caps

Me being the last one LOL But fr this is especially relatable if your a kid artist, I remember practicing on old pieces of papers I’d find around the house with my pencil, and I had genuine fun not caring about “this must turn out absolutely perfect so others love me” and just drawing cats and weird critters, occasionally trying shading and throwing away my doodles once I’m done. That was bliss. And I really do try to replicate that bliss, and I’ve had relative success, it’s mixed in slightly with the “If this isn’t perfect is every way possible I’m no different from the mound of dirt outside” only when I’m doing commissions (still don’t know how I’m getting any). Ngl I feel like the important thing is to just have fun, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have super expensive markers, just do what you want.