(January 30, 2014 at 4:05 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: What's your style and mediumsPaper, pencil, ink.
Paper is just about any type though I am partial to slightly thicker and rougher surfaces such as Strathmore 400 Series sketch pads or the Canson art pads. I keep a few pads of newsprint because every now and then I get an urge to draw on it.
Pencil is mostly Col-Erase Blue (20044) which I often refer to as "non-photo blue" even though Prismacolor does make a separate pencil with that specific name, but it's too light for my uses. The 20044 is dark enough to allow me to sketch with a light stroke but won't show up on a B/W scan. I also have some mechanical pencils with blue 0.5mm leads of the same shade as the pencils.
I have "normal" pencils and leads of varying hardness (5H to 3B) but almost never use them anymore, as I became used to the blue pencils some ~25 years ago and haven't looked back.
Ink is a whole array of drawing markers for lines and Sharpies for spotting blacks. I have tried a half-dozen or so brands of drawing markers and my current favorites are the Pigma Micron and the Copic Multiliner. Both consistently provide a sharp and clear line. I have mixed feelings on some other pens (like Pelikan, which are pretty popular but I find to be less precise than the others) and have only come across one set that I did not like at all (called Nano-Liner, they manage to bleed profusely on pretty much every paper surface I have tried; I wonder if they would even soak into glass, sheesh).
I will occasionally use a rolling ball pen for inking a practice sketch or for outlining an area that I plan to fill with black ink, but they're not meant for drawing and can mess up a line with an inkblot.
I don't use color very often, as I am not good at it and haven't had the urge to do so. I still use traditional tools for most of my work because I'm comfortable with it and enjoy the experience, but I acknowledge that digital is the wave of the future. The main benefits for me are when I want to produce a comic book page; digital lettering is a (cough) godsend for me.
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