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My Favourite Art Supplies as an Illustrator
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items A list of my favourite art supplies that I use as a professional illustrator. I do both traditional and digital illustration and these are my current traditional supplies.
These were my first artist grade watercolor paints and I really love them. The richness of the colors is great, they re-wet really easily and they last for ages (I'm on year 3 with them now). I feel as though the quality is good especially for the pr...
Paul Rubens Watercolor Set, 24 Colors, Metal Box
These were a complete surprise to me. I really like how they behave which is very similar to goache. You can lay your color down and then add water to use them like paint. Or you can just use them like crayons, so it's like a 2 in 1 art supply. The p...
Caran d'Ache Neocolor II Pastels, 30 Colors
These are so fun to play with, they are a watersoluable crayon. When you add water they work very similarly to watercolor. You can get some really great texture using these. They are quite thick though so can be a little clumsy if you aren't used to ...
MUNGYO Water-Soluble Oil Pastel Set, 24 Colors
These are a high quality product. The gouache consistency is creamy and quite opaque. They are lovely to work with. I tried jelly goauche before trying these and the difference was crazy. These are a much better product and quite affordable for what ...
Turner Gouache Watercolor Paint Set - 18 Colors
Lovely quality inks to pair with watercolor work.
Drawing Inks - Winsor & Newton
Excellent for blocking out parts of your paper that you don't want watercolor paint to go over. It dries and then peels off of the paper really easily too.
Winsor & Newton Watercolor Masking Fluid 75ml
If you are illustrating mostly small items (as opposed to a fully painted full page) and plan to scan most of your work to upload to work with digitally then this paper is great and affordable. You don't need to get really expensive paper to do good ...
Canson Watercolor Paper
A really high quality set of paints especially if you are a beginner or dabling in watercolor and for professionals too. This small set will be more worth it than a cheap set with a lot of colours.
Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolor Set, 12 Half Pan
I recommend this set for beginners in watercolor, it's affordable and you can get a taste for the medium before deciding to invest in an artist grade set.
Pebeo Artist Watercolor
Excellent quality watercolors. I bought these because of the purity of the pigments, the reason that is important is because if you want to mix colors you will get a better and cleaner color mix and not muddy colors. The color selection is really bea...
Mission Gold Class 26 Colors Pure Pigment Set