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Up Your Sketchbook Game With These Amazing Art Supplies
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items If you’re looking to take your sketchbook practice to the next level, here’s what’s been living in my art bag lately. These are the supplies that made me actually enjoy sitting down to sketch, and once you try them, you’ll wonder how you ever did wit...
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Sketchbooks
Alcohol Markers
Pencils
Eraser
Pens
Paint Pens
Sketchbooks
Versatile and great quality, these sketchbooks are next level.
If alcohol markers are your thing, this pad was basically made for you. The paper helps you achieve smooth, vibrant color without the patchy, uneven results you’d get on regular sketchbook paper. Fair warning though - alcohol markers will bleed throu...
Mix Media Pad, Ohuhu Mixed Media Art Sketchbook
The A4 size gives you serious real estate to work with, perfect for those pieces where you just need more space. The paper quality is genuinely impressive, holding up to a variety of mediums. Whether you’re going in with alcohol markers, pencils, or ...
Moleskine Art Sketchbook - Hardcover - A4
Alcohol Markers
One of my personal favorite supplies, you will have a great time sketching with alcohol markers.
An incredible budget friendly option, Ohuhu alcohol markers come in sets ranging from 48 to 320+ colors which gives you plenty of palette options. Their brush tip is especially versatile. It mimics the feel of a paintbrush, making it great for fluid ...
While extremely pricey, Copic Sketch markers are widely regarded as the gold standard for alcohol based markers. The brush nib is flexible enough to cover larger areas with ease, yet stiff enough to nail tiny precise details. The ink is thick and im...
COPIC® Sketch Marker Sets
Pencils
Mechanical pencils, colored pencils, sketching pencils, all the pencils!
The Pilot Color Eno makes sketching genuinely fun. Grab a few different colors and you’ve got an instant portable sketch kit that fits in your pocket. No caps to lose, no sharpening, just smooth, consistent lines whenever inspiration strikes. The lea...
Pilot Color Mechanical Pencil ENO, 0.7mm, Pink (HCR-12R-P7)
The Uni Kurutoga is a sketcher’s secret weapon. Its signature rotating lead mechanism keeps the tip consistently sharp as you draw, so your lines stay crisp whether you’re doing tight detail work or loose, expressive strokes. No more flipping your pe...
Uni Kuru Toga Mechanical Pencil - 0.5 mm - Violet
Artists have used them for decades as a first-pass sketching tool before inking, and once you try that workflow you’ll be hooked. The blue and light blue shades in particular are legendary for underdrawing. Simple, reliable, and endlessly useful.
Col-erase Pencils
If there’s one pencil that belongs in every sketcher’s kit, it’s the Faber Castell 9000. The graphite is silky smooth and remarkably consistent across the full range of grades, so whether you’re pulling light, feathery lines with a 2H or laying down ...
Faber-Castell 9000 Pencil - Graphite
Prismacolor Premiers are a joy to sketch with, but where they truly shine is layering over alcohol markers. The thick, creamy wax-based cores blend and burnish beautifully over dried marker, letting you add texture, detail, and depth that markers alo...
Prismacolor Colored Pencils in Art Pencils(70)
Eraser
Don’t cheap out on a good eraser! They make a huge difference!
A solid eraser that will last forever. Seriously. They just don’t quit.
Dust-Free Vinyl Art Eraser, Green - #FC587122
You might think “oh just pencil top erasers.” Wrong. These are the BEST pencil top erasers and you will not find me without a bunch in my sketching bag at all times.
Ticonderoga Pencil Cap Erasers, Wedge Erasers for Pencil Tops, White, 25 Ct
Pens
While I’m not a big pen girlie, there are some that are just so fun and I love to bust out sometimes.
The Pentel EnerGel Pearl Needle Retractable Gel Pen is a solid sketching tool thanks to its 0.7mm needle tip, which delivers clean, precise lines with excellent control. The fast drying gel ink flows smoothly without skipping, making it great for con...
Pentel EnerGel Pearl Needle Retractable Liquid Gel Pen ...
Are these the best quality? No. Are they a lot of fun to sketch with? Absolutely. The color selection makes it fun to experiment with layering different colors, trying new techniques, and playing with color in general.
10 Color Pen
Paint Pens
Acrylic markers are so fun by themselves. Layer them over alcohol markers, colored pencils, pens… the possibilities are endless and every one is a fun time.
Shuttle Art Automatic Ink Control Acrylic Paint Markers - 36 Colors - Brush Tip