10 Essential Drawing Materials for SERIOUS Beginners

Don't know what drawing supplies you need? Well, wonder no more. In this video, we look at 10 essential drawing materials and supplies for anyone starting to get serious about drawing.
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8. Blending Stumps

[jetgoldranger]

As an artist, every time I see one of these videos, I try to remind people that art comes from the artist . . . never the tool. Some of the most important art-works in history were painted on the walls of caves with sticks and paints made of berries and mud. Perfect your art, build your skills, then you can worry about upgrading your supplies.

[juliocesarjimenez]

1. Pens: 2h, h, hb (2b) 2b 6b
2. Sketch book
3. Quality surface (paper type)
4. Variety of Erasers (vinyl, rubber, gum, kneaded)
5. Hand pencil sharpener
6. Charcoal / cante
7. Technical drawing pen
8. Blending stumps
9. Quality colored pencil
10. Artwork storage

[gailrodgers]

At the age of 65, I am beginning my art life. I have been blessed to have gotten most of the items you have talked about for free, and so I am trying to learn about them. Like the white rolled up paper, I had no idea what it was or what it would be for, or how to use some of these things. Of all the things I have gotten, I have found so far that watercolor pencils are my favorite as it gives me more control. Thank you for an excellent video, and contrary to what some of the poster say, perfect for those that want to move past a yellow pencil and 3-ring notebook paper.

[devandestudios]

Not sure if you knew this, but Staedtler lead holders/extenders have a built in lead sharpener in the end cap. The little hole in the end cap is for sharpening the leads.

[ollieable]

I am a self taught "Artist" with very limited outside personal assistance. This is an awesome video with copious amounts of very important information! You have validated much I've learned and learned many of the products I purchased over the past couple of years are the correct ones from your learned background.
FYI I am a retired educator and your presentation was excellent. I only would offer up as a suggestion, possibly adding a few more short, 10-20 second demos of how the different tools, pencils or paper may work or function. AWSOME & Thanks keep up the excellent videos!!!

[strivethebest]

I love the kneeded eraser. I used graphite and filled the whole page then used this type of eraser to "erase out" my drawing. It was a cliff with a lake and clouds. Thank you for these tips for tools. Tools are very important- I definitely am choosy with my tools. But also I know they are not needed. People can be artsy with just a pencil or a pen.

[joeneldelosangeles]

You're just a great teacher! 😊
Feels not a second I spent watching your videos got wasted!

[alexandraalmeida]

Hi, I am watching from Portugal. I love art as a hobby, in fact I am an English teacher. I loved your video. Excellent information. I have many of the things you mentioned, but I’ve learnt a lot.

[mygracecottage]

Thank you, as a beginner I can notice that I definitely improve as I slowly upgrade to higher quality supplies, that motivates me to keep practicing. Cheers

[TheLegend-ipoq]

me: Best drawing inside my head
my actual drawing: 🤚👁👄👁✋

[redwatch]

Cool. You enunciate clearly enough that I can watch this on 2.0 speed.

[electricdreams]

I started drawing recently, and I'm a young drawer. and by young, I mean 9 years old! and this video told me how to start. thank you for uploading great content.

[marypartridge]

I just love you Americans. You are friendly and I love your openness. Us British can be too reserved and tend to cynicism. I want to sign up to you, but I'm hopeless on computers. Best drawing instruction ever.

[treasurespastnpresen]

From my research, all colored pencils contain both oils and waxes. The differences being the amounts of each and the types. "Wax" pencils having a higher % of wax and soft pencils like Prismacolor having a higher % of softer wax. Oil pencils contain a higher % of oils rather than wax. Rembrandt Lyra and Faber Castell Polychromos are both considered oil based pencils but their formulations differ with Lyras being the softer of the two brands.

[jazw]

Borden & Riley #37 Boris Marker Layout bright white translucent 13.5lb is amazing paper. Markers do not bleed through it and it's very light. Im a college art student. ... keep your mechanical pencil sharpener in a zip lock bag, it is so messy and the dust sticks to all your other art supplies. Large newsprint pads for charcoal are my favorite, cheap and nice big surface to play on. Japanese brush pens are my favorite, you can get disposable or ink cartridge kind. We blend with the kneadable eraser in school, never blending stumps. Roll your kneadable eraser over charcoal to lighten it and smudge. Cut your regular eraser into small squares to smuge small bits

[reygart]

Iam beginner, I use low budget material

[JAMFOK]

I needed this basically am a total beginner and am doing a course that needs me to be good in drawing..need more videos like this

[joeblankenship]

I like that you stuck up for Prismacolor. Yeah, they get a bad rap, but nobody's saying "they don't blend well or the colors aren't nicely pigmented." They're a great introduction to what's possible with colored pencils. When all you know is Crayola or some other cheap colored pencil, Prismacolor is a game changer. Also, Lyra Rembrandt Polycolors are a good inexpensive oil-based colored pencil. They're softer than Polychromos but the pigments are pretty nice.

[cynthiajluciene]

A friend and the best illustrator with whom I have the pleasure of learning some drawing tips from suggested I use a homemade paper blending tool with a carbon pencil to draw with. He showed me how he uses a blender tool to pull the carbon on paper to make lighter lines and to do shading. He grabbed a piece of paper, rolled it into a tight cone and used a small piece of tape to keep it rolled tight.

[aarontussey]

22.37, WOW! Beautiful drawing! I’d hang that on my wall and probably my end up having to name it in my will to keep the family from fighting over it.