Tip of the Week; Week 7 and 8 - Art Supplies don't matter; Sketching in a process

I totally forgot to post this las weekend the tip of the week! I meant to but I forgot, I'm sorry people!
Forgiveness, please! *puppy eye'd plead*

Okey here it goes:

Week 7; Art Supplies don't matter!

Okay, you are starting to draw, and don't know where to start, right?
Let me tell you where not to start, or even need to end (although graduation from things is benificial!), art supplies! As long as your eraser works and you're having fun it doesn't matter what kind of things you use! Even a pro doesn't need good art supplies.

Mark Crilley did a whole Q&A video drawing with a piece of cooking charcoal and the back of a brown paper bag on a wobbling serface! Not even a table! Don't think you have to have the best of everything to do well!

Source: http://instagram.com/markcrilleyreal

Now when Mark Crilley says, you don't need the best drawing pieces, then I think my point is proven! It's not the tool as much as the artist. I'll paraphrase this art master: "If you have to fight with your tools then they aren't good for you...Use whatever you are comfortable with!" - "Use whatever kind of brand you want, crayola, copic, whatever!" - Yes I heard him say even Crayola, it's not the supplies, it's the artist!

If you're comfortable, having fun, and making nice things in your eyes (puft to critics unless you want the help to be better!) then use whatever you want! Even a piece of cooking charcoal.

If you want to watch Mark draw this picture go here.


Note:  Mr. Mark Crilley is in no way associated with me, I'm using him purely as a reference, all my opinions don't necessarily agree with his or vice-versa.  

Week 8; Sketching In a Process:

When you are trying to sketch, don't get too detailed right from the start! Try doing your basic guidelines, your basic pose (if it's a figure of any kind), your basic rough sketch,* then polish it up later, if you ink you can tweak even yet again in that stage.

* When sketching it helps a lot to have 2 pencils, a normal/sketching pencil for the rough and semi polishing stage, and a mechanical for hardening and darkening the lines you know you want to keep.
But again, do it how you feel comfortable! 

Also if you have a knead-able eraser after you have your perfect sketch you know you like, if you don't want to ink but want the lines lighter now so you can color w/o seeing as many sketchy lines use your knead-able eraser and push it against the sketch, it will pick up the graphite w/o fully erasing the sketch and keeping the inital sketch in place.

I did this on the computer but it applies to any media:

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If you want to see the finished drawing to this sketch/line art, click here.


I hope these 2 tips helped you!


 

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