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Affordable Quality Drawing Supplies
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items Drawing supplies that are affordable, but good enough for people serious about drawing. Helpful if you want to get started with drawing without spending a lot of money. Drawing is a good artistic hobby if you don't want to spend a lot of money or use...
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Drawing Pencils
Drawing Paper and Sketchbooks
Erasers and Blenders
Drawing Charcoal
Affordable and Safer Art Fixative
Drawing Pencils
Drawing pencils range from hard pencils to for sketching to soft ones for shading. They are so much better for drawing than ordinary pencils. And they aren't very expensive.
#AD A set of 12 drawing pencils ranging from 2H to 8B. Nice because if you don't need many hard pencils.
Faber-Castell 9000 Pencil Set - Art Drawing Set, Set of 12
#AD A nice starter drawing set with both graphic and charcoal. Also includes erasers and tortillions.
Beginner Drawing & Sketching Set by Artist's Loft
#AD A set of pencils in the softer grades. Nice because softer pencils tend to get used up faster.
Staedtler® Mars® Lumograph® Drawing Pencils, Set Of 6
Drawing Paper and Sketchbooks
Affordable quality drawing paper and a couple of cool sketchbooks.
#AD Quality budget drawing paper--good enough for real art.
Strathmore® 300 Series Wired Drawing Paper Pad, 50 ...
#AD Good for artists who prefer very smooth drawing paper.
Strathmore® 300 Series Bristol Smooth Pad
#AD A portable sketchbook with good drawing paper.
Blue Daisy Sketchbook by Artist's Loft™, 4" x 4"
#AD A sketchbook with a cool woodgrain cover.
8.5" x 11" Wood Grain Sketchbook by Artist's Loft
Erasers and Blenders
These artist's erasers will erase more cleanly than ordinary erasers. Blenders are useful for smoothing lines and shading in soft pencil and charcoal.
#AD For neat and clean erasing.
Faber-Castell® Dust Free Erasers, 2ct.
#AD Great for lifting out highlights--and fun to work with.
Faber-Castell® Kneaded Erasers
#AD Useful for blending and softening your pencil drawings.
Blending Tortillons by Artist's Loft
#AD Tortillons and blending stumps in a wide range of sizes.
Blending Stumps & Tortillons by Artist's Loft
Drawing Charcoal
Charcoal can be used on its own or with pencils. It creates deeper and richer darks. Drawing charcoal is available in a variety of forms.
#AD Charcoal pencils for finer work in charcoal.
Winsor & Newton™ Studio Collection™ Charcoal Pencil 6 ...
#AD Charcoal pencils with a sharpener and an eraser. Includes a white pastel pencil, which can be blended with charcoal for softer grays.
Charcoal Pencil Set By Artist's Loft
#AD Charcoal sticks for bold strokes in soft, medium, and hard. Includes white for finer shades.
Compressed Charcoal Sticks by Artist's Loft
#AD Sticks of soft vine charcoal.
Vine Charcoal, Soft by Artist's Loft
#AD Large sticks of compressed charcoal.
Jumbo Compressed Charcoal by Artist's Loft
White charcoal pencils are good for drawing on dark paper and adding highlights.
White Charcoal Pencils by Artist's Loft™, 2ct.
#AD Sticks of white compressed charcoal.
White Compressed Charcoal, 4ct. by Artist's Loft
Affordable and Safer Art Fixative
Fixatives keep your pencil or charcoal drawing from smudging. However, many artist's fixatives have such hazardous chemicals and strong odors that they need to be used outdoors. Here are the best alternatives I've found so far. Note that any fixative...
#AD You can use hairspray as a cheap fixative for sketches, although it's not suitable for a masterpiece you want to keep and display long-term, as it's not formulated to last long and may yellow with time.
Suave Max Hold Non Aerosol Hairspray - 11 fl oz
#AD A safer and more environmentally-friendly fixative that can be used indoors. Contains milk protein and alcohol, so I wouldn't recomend this for people with dairy allergies that can be triggered by touching milk. May not spray as well as fixatives... Read more about Spectrafix.
SpectraFix Spray Fixative