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Art supplies that improved my drawings(all under $10)
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items I use these various tools, products and even apps as part of my toolkit that allow me bring my creative imagination to reality.
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Apps I use in my art workflow
I use this app to get any dynamic pose of the 'being' I want to bring to life. As you can see it very well helps by giving that structure which I can then replicate easily on paper. And no it doesn't take the 'joy' out of art if you have a reference ...
Poseit - App Store - Apple
I use this app alot for head angles and what I like about this app is it shows me where the adequate shadows and highlight go as I rotate the 3d skull...i can also increase the amount of light and the direction I want the light to bounce.
Skelly - Art Model - App Store - Apple
This is the app I used to make grids, although I can't find them anymore on play store and the name of the app is so generic, it's just 'drawing grid maker'😐
So I suggest you do a 'reverse image search' with Google lens. I use this app because it...
Grid making app
Art tools
Tools I use in my art toolkit
I like this sketch card cause whenever I blend my charcoal it absorbs it easily
Canson Universal Heavyweight Sketch Pads 9x12
This kneadable eraser unlike other companies don't become hard when exposed to air for awhile
SANFORD LP 70531 Design Kneaded Eraser, Multicolor
I finally found 4B charcoal lead. This was a game changer for me, no more having to sharpen my charcoal pencils all the time to get precise sharp lines for parts such as lashes and brows. And the lead doesn't break easily unlike others.
Pentel Ain Stein 0.5mm 4B Mechanical Lead
This brand has the darkest lead grades up to 12B. And whenever the pencil may fall you won't have the issue of the lead being broken in segments throughout the pencil.
Derwent Drawing Pencils, 12 Count (34215)
To avoid smudging my work while drawing
Articka - Amazon.com
These are some of my work. I made some of these art works long before I could get all the tools I rec in this list, if you can't get all at once make do with just a normal HB pencil, what matters is that you love making art 🙂.
These are some of my art works, I even drew my profile pic lol
Mine doesn't have a label
Charcoal Sticks & Blocks
I mostly use this sparingly for skin and adding highlights to lashes or glossy lips, without having to sharpen my white charcoal pencil all the time
White Mechanical Pencils
So this is hard to find cause it doesn't have a brand name lol but it does the job so well, and pretty cheap. It doesn't have overly complicated feature like other big brand electric erasers, it also fits into my hand easily just like a pencil. So I...
Electric Eraser 10 eraser refills
I've been using these brand of white charcoal pencil for as long as i can remember, it doesn't give a grainy finish like other brands and it can be easily scrapped into powder for faster highlighting, I used this way before I even got a white mechani...
White charcoal pencil
Here me out, you're probably wondering what does a compass have to do with anything. Well I don't know about you but I'm not a genius artist I have to use a reference for my art style(realism) and I draw using grids.
Now to draw grids on a paper ...
Statesman Technical Drawing Compass Large 1PC — Statesman Stationery