All drawing tools you need are surprisingly simple. One of the best
things on drawing is that you can start right away with inconsiderable
investment.
I took some photos of the drawing tools that I use for drawings on my
website. Since I currently live in Japan, I have available only Japanese
drawing instruments and I can tell you they are fantastic.
These products are manufactured with such delicacy and sense for
details. All I can say is that Japanese stationary products are one of
the highest qualities in the world, if not the highest and, this is not
an exaggeration.
If you have a possibility to buy yourself good Japanese stationery, do it. You will not regret.
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If you are only exercising choose the simplest and cheapest sketch book
for children. It is usually available in many formats. I would recommend
starting from B4 format because you can make many drawings, sketches
and studies on one single page.
If you do not have any sketch book available, you can also draw on the back of an envelope.
For practicing it really doesn’t matter. The important thing is that you draw and thus train your brain to function in relaxed mood.
Tracing paper is mostly used in technical drawing and architecture but
you will find it very useful if you want to make an exact copy of a
picture.
The A4 size of tracing paper will be excellent for your drawing and
sketching work. I can tell you, that working by tracing paper is an
excellent exercise to catch the shape of the picture.
If you do not have tracing paper available at hand, put the picture you
are going to trace on the window in your room, fix it by tape on each
corner so that it won’t move and place the blank white paper over it,
also fixing the blank paper by tape on corners.
The picture will reflect from the bottom up and you can trace the
picture on the blank paper. Since this requires you to work in standing
position on the vertical flat surface, you may feel slight tiredness in
your arms. In such case just stop drawing for a while, relax and
continue later.
Working with tracing techniques is very helpful, because often you need
only to grab the outlines of the drawing, by other word to get the
correct shape and the rest is only a kind of coloring page work.
Every successful drawing is about being able to catch the correct shape
of the object. By tracing you can do it absolutely effortlessly while
learning and practicing.
I would like to make one point clear here and, that is: Tracing is never
cheating! Be easy about it. Yes, tracing paper is also one of the
excellent drawing tools – instruments.
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HB pencil is probably the most popular hardness of a pencil, because it is neither too soft nor too hard. It allows you to draw a large variety of pencil drawings and sketches and, is excellent for shading.
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A sharp pencil is one of an indispensable drawing tools used in
technical drawing and architecture. But it is also very useful in
artistic drawing. The biggest advantage is that you do not need to
sharpen it. Refills are very cheap too.
Things to be careful while choosing your sharp pencil is, to select the
light one with plastic body. There are sharp pencils with metallic made
body and (in my opinion) they are a bit heavy for artistic drawing. You
need a light pencil in your hand not a heavy piece of metal stick.
Different case is if you would use it for technical drawing. There, it
is quite helpful because you draw only by ruler and the weight of the
pencil helps you to stabilize your hand.
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I am not sure if the “Pen-Shaped-Eraser” is the correct name for this
thing, but the picture tells you what I mean. Among many types and
shapes of erasers choose for your drawings and sketches something like
this. It is tremendously helpful, because the size of the eraser is
always slim and that is what you need almost always.
In your drawings or sketches you often need to erase narrow parts on the
drawing so that you won’t damage or blur the good part. It is very
difficult to do it with the traditional piece of eraser. So, in order to
make your drawing work easy it is better to have one like this.
Eraser is also an excellent drawing tool. It is just this type of eraser
by which you will be able to highlight the bright spots on your
drawings easily. You can “draw by eraser” the shining parts in human
hair or animal’s fur; it is tremendously useful when you draw grass or
other plants.
I think this type of eraser needs not to be introduced. You are already very familiar with this. However, among importance of drawing tools it comes next to pencil, e.i. second important thing ;-)
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Loose Pencil Grip is very convenient when you draw approximate lines or while you sketch.
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Tilted Pencil Grip; this is tremendously helpful drawing technique you should absolutely get familiar with. I recommend this technique in almost every drawing or sketch.
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By using Tilted Pencil Grip you will simply draw nearly perfect lines from the very initial sketch.
I would say, holding your pencil tilted gives you confidence. Try it and you’ll see the results. It works!
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Writing grip helps you to mark out or to outline more exact lines or contours.
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Yes, tissue paper or cotton swabs are also excellent drawing tools. When
you want to "un-sharp" the pencil strokes and blur or blend some parts on
your drawing, use a piece of tissue paper or cotton swab.
If you do not have tissue paper or cotton swab available, use the tip of your fingers.
Please see and enjoy the following collection of personal galleries. We all believe you will have a lot of fun. Observing other’s art work is always, always very inspirational. You may get some new ideas for your own drawings.
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The following Theme Based Galleries are a collection of selected drawings from various authors based on a certain theme. I would like you to get as much inspiration as possible for your own drawings.
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Mar 03, 21 06:55 AM
i love drawing so i thought to myself and said let me trying drawing a hand with nails.
Mar 03, 21 06:52 AM
My 12 year old drew Steve Harvey in a cartoon version.
Mar 03, 21 06:50 AM
I like the film
Mar 03, 21 06:48 AM
Chibi art
Mar 03, 21 06:46 AM
This is my drawing of Oggy and the Cockroaches together on Microsoft Paint. I made it during an art lesson with Southfield teacher Janet Deane.
Mar 03, 21 06:45 AM
it's my fursona uwu
Mar 03, 21 06:43 AM
Flower And Bee
Mar 03, 21 05:17 AM
Taking care of an insect is really good and that's what is described in my sketch.
Mar 03, 21 05:07 AM
Early in 2020, I joined a horse-riding group called the Westernaires. At my first lesson, I rode a beautiful horse named Taki (yes, like the chips).
Feb 20, 21 04:12 AM
Cow And Crane
Feb 14, 21 11:26 PM
Different colours representing different communities... in the pouch there is corruption
Feb 14, 21 04:42 AM
I have drawn Shikamaru Nara from Naruto series.Manga and anime really inspires me and helped me got through the tough times.
Feb 14, 21 04:36 AM
Just started drawing my own cartoon characters.
Feb 09, 21 05:00 PM
Done on my iPod with my fingers sorry if it looks a little messy ... anyway the character is from the princess and the frog . I heard it is trendy to modernise
Feb 08, 21 01:40 AM
Happy Saraswati Puja