Is Your Setup Holding You Back? Pencil, Paper, Eraser, Easel, Sharpener
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2024
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In the video, I talk about art supplies I like to use. Here are some more specifics on the products I get. I am not sponsored by any of these companies and I don't receive any money from them. When I buy the products, I use my own money. If you have a local art supply shop, it's a good idea to support them if possible!
For smooth newsprint, in the UK I get it from Cassart. In other countries, you'll have to do your own research. Perhaps if you've found good smooth newsprint where you live, you can let others know in the comments.
The other type of paper I mentioned is marker paper. It seems to work well. It's whiter and apparently is archival. I haven't really explored the brands yet though.
For pencils, I buy Pitt Pastel (black) and Generals Charcoal 4B and 6B. I find 2B is a bit too hard. Another good one is Conte Pierre Noire 1710 2B but I find it snaps too much for me! If you like graphite, then the Mitsubushi hi-uni 10B is nice and soft.
For sharpening, I just get a pack of Stanley razors plus disposable nail files.
For the precise eraser, I have a Tombow mono eraser, but I'm sure there are lots of good ones. - Навчання та стиль
There are lots of setups that can work really well - let me know about yours in the comments!
Love how your able to teach and draw traditional and digital, the transition seems daunting. "Know the bite of paper; learn the pressure of pencils/pens" Danny Antonucci
16:44 as I reached for my coffee, we both Laughed the same way the same time. AMAZING explanations, I cannot wait to have a go at sharpening my charcoal pencil. Thank you
Yeah. Sometimes, I use the paper sheets attached to my clipboards. Sometimes, I use the lap boards for my papers and paper pads. And sometimes, I use a drawing board with legs to draw and paint my pictures diagonally or horizontally or perpendicularly.
Kenzo You're really great teacher👏👏👏👏👏 Thanks
You have a lots of common things with Proko you're both great you give all the knowledge you have without holding back❤❤❤❤
This is a wonderful video thanks; I just got a load of newsprint, sharpened my pencils and I am ready to go!!
i mainly use drawing boards sat in my lap leant up against a desk. it just means i can have a few different things on the go at any one time (i have a few drawing boards with paper clipped to them). I've also recently tried the general peel and sketch pencil...they're fun to use!
Hey Chris! That sounds like a great setup. Yes I need to get peel and sketch again
Yeah, I use two drawing boards, one with the stratightedge loosened off, and the lap board with elastic band missing. Sometimes, I use the paper on the clipboards on my lap.
One of the best videos to date. I've been sharpening my pencils with a scalpel since I was in art college over 40 years ago but this is a great variation on that when media like pastel and charcoal pencils are more delicate. Quality of line is everything.
I glued some sand paper to my drafting desk, and drilled a little box below it to catch the falling charcoal. When I was younger I would always write with a Bic pen alot. Looking back, my drawings that were on the fatter side of the sketchbook always looked better because of the softness of the papers underneath. Think about when you sign your signature with a Bic, it always feels better when you sign it ontop of another piece of paper. It's almost uncomfortable to write with a pen on a hard surface. I imagine this similar, but not as noticeable to change it with pencil unless you really took the time to notice. Makes total sense.
Great video!
Love this. Thanks Kenzo! It's useful to have all of this info together in one video. Also fun to be able to watch you drawing.
Thank you Bonnie!
love this video! though I was hoping to see how you set up your references when your drawing 😂
First of all, I want to thank you for your amazing content. You're a great teacher, and it's really inspiring to see how much you've grown as an artist while simultaneously helping and teaching us.
One thing I've been wondering for years is the best way to frame these newspaper drawings. They're so fragile and quick to yellow over time. Every time I try more expensive or thicker paper, even when relatively smooth, it never gives the same aesthetic. I absolutely love the look of newspaper figure drawings and wonder if you have any tips or know of a type of surface that lends itself better for framing and preservation, while giving the same experience while drawing?
Yeah great question, I’ve not framed any of mine. However I think you can frame them under something that protects from UV, keep out of direct sun, and it’ll keep quite well for many years
Today I mostly work with what I call the "doodler's delight": Cheap ruled subject notebook, mechanical lead, eraser putty, Bic ballpoints, circle stencil, and a light pad advertised for "diamond painting" (still don't know what that is). The subject notebook is used as a tracing device and a source of rule lines, which can be augmented with the circle stencil - note paper is widespread, designed for ballpoint, and extremely thin, making it good for iterative sketching and graphic design for comics - flip over the paper and trace the mirrored image and you can spot a lot of errors. If in a hurry to publish something, you can ink directly on the note paper and scan in black-and-white mode to eliminate the rule lines in one step. The light pad doubles as a drawing board, and when the sketch is in a good place it can be used to do final polish and render on drawing paper or Bristol with no intermediate stages - just put one paper on the other, clip them securely, blast light through, start inking with dip pens or fineliners.
The main limitation I've encountered is that the scale of the paper limits the size of the drawing - it's no problem for comic panels, but I'm likely to move to digital if I need a lot of detail. While there are different qualities that come out of the drawing when I use other media, most of the important decisions come in that iterative stage where I'll let my hand move gesturally, and then I'll use the stencils to bring it back into a more controlled space. I can go through three or four sheets really quickly this way: I'll sketch some poses in the corner of the page, then try to put them in the scene, then indicate perspective more clearly, then try to work on shapes and shadows. All different drawings.
Machanical Pencil alle the way: 0,5mm, 2mm and 5,6mm even with charcol. Sharpening ist di much easyer and the tip can get retracted for transport.
Everything else: I'm so with You. the search for the right paper can take ages and and desk-easel "can save lives".
And Tea.
One way to reduce snapping when sharpening long points is to break it down into steps (because a 'sharp point that's 2cm long' is approximately a subset of a 'sharp point that's 1cm long', in terms of the volume of pencil core). Sharpening in incremental steps (trim the wood for 1cm, then the point for 1cm, then the wood for 1.5cm, then the point for 1.5cm...) maximizes the amount of support that the core receives during sharpening and minimizes the amount of core that you need to remove at a time to reach the final point.
Anyone who is having trouble with snapping leads should also consider (carefully) trying a craft knife on the core -- gradually shaving off layers. This is not a quick method of sharpening, but it should help mastering the fine control that you need to consistently sandpaper points without breaking them.
Lastly, I realize this is not an option for everyone, but if you can fix the pencil in place while you are sharpening it, this can help enormously. Drilling a hole (barely bigger than your pencil) in a piece of scrap wood and clamping that is one way to achieve it.
That's what I do with all my charcoal pencils. I use Generals 4b/6b, Wolffs Carbon 4b/6b and Conte a Paris 1710 b/2b's. Sharpen all of them with an exact-o knife, whittling them down to the core stock initially. I start with about a centimeter exposed, and carefully whittle it until I have about 2-3cm of core exposed. I then lightly sand it down with sand paper initially (medium grit) and then finish sharpening them with a hard metal file (the wood sanding kind), which I highly recommend using as it's very easy to brush it and collect all your charcoal dust after sanding, compared to sandpaper, and it will last you forever.
You gotta be delicate when whittling down the cores with your knife or razor blade; go around evenly taking off smaller layers when you get near the core. You don't wanna put a lot of pressure or torque on the charcoal. I will scrape both along and against the grain at times, to remove small slivers of the adhesive between the wood and charcoal particularly. And when sanding, you want to lightly support the core tip against the sanding surface with your finger. You can sand it very lightly, the charcoal will file down over time. Haven't broken a pencil sharpening this way in quite some time and consistently get very nice, long and evenly tapered charcoal pencils.
Great tips thank you!
Perfect! Thank you Kenzo. Any chance you might do a demo for digital art? You use Procreate quite a bit and the way you apply colour or grey scale in digital is awesome! I use photoshop but i think techniques are slightly similar. For now, i have smooth print paper. just need to try the techniques shown here. thank you sensei!
I did make one recently :)
@@lovelifedrawing cool, I go check that one out. Must have missed it 😅
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