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traditional artists!!! what materials do yall usually use? if u wanna name every single thing u used, go for it!!!
someone already asked about devices, and most answers were from digi artists of course. so i just wanna ask only the trad artists this time. yall who do crafts are included too. pls tell us what yarn or clay or whatever yall use. everyone who dont use electricity. lmaoashdkJun 17, 2023
someone already asked about devices, and most answers were from digi artists of course. so i just wanna ask only the trad artists this time. yall who do crafts are included too. pls tell us what yarn or clay or whatever yall use. everyone who dont use electricity. lmaoashdkJun 17, 2023
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I mostly do watercolor stuff, so I use cheap paint and paper and brushes and water!
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Well, this was gonna be a short answer of notebook and pen, but you had to include crafts. I do needle felting, but am poor. So I use brushed acrylic yarn to felt with, and the cheap Amazon needles. Add some floral wire for armatures, and that's about it.
I also sew clothes, but don't feel flush enough to buy a machine. And I buy quite a lot of my fabric from thrift stores. In the form of old clothes, curtains, or bedsheets.
You could say I am creating on the cheap, lol.
I also sew clothes, but don't feel flush enough to buy a machine. And I buy quite a lot of my fabric from thrift stores. In the form of old clothes, curtains, or bedsheets.
You could say I am creating on the cheap, lol.
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•thanks for answering, yall! i wish yall the best in ur art rendezvous or whatever. keep up the great work, artists!!! 
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Can I answer if I only sketch in traditional and sometimes mess around with ink?
For regular sketchs I use a spiral spine sketchbook(the kind that looks like an A4 version of these tiny notebooks).
A 2.0 molin mechanical pencil for the rough sketch(yeah it has a very thick graohite stick which is softer on the paper and doesn't leaves dark marks when erased).
And lastly for the details a 0.7 bic mechanical pencil that, believe or not, I own since high school!
When I'm practicing traditional inking I use a 60kg paper (which is not very great for ink but its doing the job until I can buy bristol paper), corfix nankim ink(or india ink as how it is mostly known) and shanghai heyi stationary dip pens. The student nib is my favourite to use so far XD
For regular sketchs I use a spiral spine sketchbook(the kind that looks like an A4 version of these tiny notebooks).
A 2.0 molin mechanical pencil for the rough sketch(yeah it has a very thick graohite stick which is softer on the paper and doesn't leaves dark marks when erased).
And lastly for the details a 0.7 bic mechanical pencil that, believe or not, I own since high school!
When I'm practicing traditional inking I use a 60kg paper (which is not very great for ink but its doing the job until I can buy bristol paper), corfix nankim ink(or india ink as how it is mostly known) and shanghai heyi stationary dip pens. The student nib is my favourite to use so far XD
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I primarily use a little winsor & newton watercolor set! Water brushes and whatever kind of paper I feel like.
And prismacolor pencils
And prismacolor pencils
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Oh lord, here we go
Alcohol markers: Promarker, Copic, Touch markers, Sharpie, Spectrum Noir, Stylefile & Tombow
Coloring pencil: Polycolor, Derwent, Polychromos, Posca and Caren Dache
Watercolor: Winsor and Newton, Schminke, ZIG kurutake, Prima, Tombow and Panduro brand
Fineliner: Micron, Steadtler, Stabilo and Uni
Other stuff: Posca paint markers, Washi Tape, Glitterpens, Pilot markers etc.
Alcohol markers: Promarker, Copic, Touch markers, Sharpie, Spectrum Noir, Stylefile & Tombow
Coloring pencil: Polycolor, Derwent, Polychromos, Posca and Caren Dache
Watercolor: Winsor and Newton, Schminke, ZIG kurutake, Prima, Tombow and Panduro brand
Fineliner: Micron, Steadtler, Stabilo and Uni
Other stuff: Posca paint markers, Washi Tape, Glitterpens, Pilot markers etc.
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•I usually sketch either with a mechanical pencil or erasable colored pencil (depends on the mood). Most of my drawings are done with watercolors layered with colored pencils to add extra shading and texture. The lineart is just a ballpoint pen and the final touchups and highlights are done with a white gellpen
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Sketching: normal HB pencil on any type of paper, ballpoint pen on random blank receipt side or ticket while I am travelling.
Inking: Pelikan black India ink, and glass pen (hand made, not by me of course) or before getting the glass pen for Christmas I used to use an old pointy pen nib, not very flexible actually.
Colouring: coloured pencils, normal Carand'ache set of 12, or a special one you can dilute with water (but I never do), or the remains of a 10+ years old big Faber Castell set of which I probably lost the half of the pencils along the years.
Inking: Pelikan black India ink, and glass pen (hand made, not by me of course) or before getting the glass pen for Christmas I used to use an old pointy pen nib, not very flexible actually.
Colouring: coloured pencils, normal Carand'ache set of 12, or a special one you can dilute with water (but I never do), or the remains of a 10+ years old big Faber Castell set of which I probably lost the half of the pencils along the years.
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•My favorite medium is gouache because it’s more opaque than water color but I find it easier to use than acrylic. And then I almost exclusively sketch with col-ease pencils because they’re easier to paint/draw over. I’ve also done a decent amount of collage work.
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