![]() It allows you to draw any type of shape - simple, wriggly, complex - with a stylus or finger, and fill the positive space inside. ![]() You can find an edited version of this post on Uban Sketcher’s website What’s in my sketch kit? It doesn’t matter.Not to be confused with Bucket Fill (which we’re currently working on - lots of definitional bits to think about with the interactive parameters of vector strokes), the Filled Stroke tool is a brush unique to Concepts. You will only get the results you want through practice and experimentation.īe wise and use your time to draw – not shop. Practice, curiosity, patience, perseverance, and an open mind will!Ĭonstantly searching for the ‘RIGHT’ tool or sketching kit can be a form of procrastination. Art supplies will not make you paint beautifully. You can potentially accumulate piles of expensive art supplies you will never use. But don’t spend too much time looking for the perfect tool.īeware of being caught in an art-buying frenzy. It’s fun and important for your journey as an artist. I am not saying you shouldn’t experiment with new tools. What matters is what I look at when I sketch, and what goes on in my head as my drawing progress.Īdvertisers tell us we can fix problems by buying stuff – so it is easy to think that if you buy specific art supplies, your sketches will look a certain way. I am thankful for anyone that takes the time to look at my drawings and interact with me – but what I really want to tell them is that the tools I’m using don’t actually matter that much.Īs an artist, it’s how I’m using my drawing tools that matter. They want to know what size and brand my brushes are. ![]() They want to know which brand of watercolour I am using and the name of the colours in my palette. But most are expecting a very detailed answer. When it comes to my urban sketching tools, some folk are happy with a general answer (i.e. Quick sketch made with my small portable urban sketching kit What really matters if you want to make progress as an artist Sometimes I use a white gel pen for highlights. I have a KOH-I-NOOR magic pencil that draws a multicoloured line and a mechanical pencil. I find them useful to lay down colours on very quick sketches. Inktense pencils look dull when you draw with them, but wet them with a water brush and they dissolve into beautiful vibrant washes. My favourite pencils are Inktense Derwent watercolour pencils. A few pencilsĪlthough they are not a necessary addition to my urban sketching tools, I also like to carry a few pencils. For water brushes, I like Pentel and Kuretake large brushes. They are good quality affordable brushes. I use Escoda Synthetic Kolinsky travel brushes. Travel brushes are foldable brushes with a hollow handle that doubles up as a top to protect your brushes’ hair. I take them when I am planning a specific sketching outing. They are great to travel light and they are part of my everyday urban sketching tools.įor large washes, travel brushes and water are best. You fill the handle of water brushes with water and squeeze it to release the water. It gives me time to learn and find out which colours work best for me too. Professional grade watercolours are worth buying, but they are expensive, so I try to use up colours I am not so keen on before replacing them with a better alternative. Some colours I like transparent (Cerulean Blue) other opaque (Cadmium yellow and red). Now I don’t like all the colours in both palettes, so I’ll replace some with different alternatives as they run out. Ochre Yellow, reddish brown, dark brown.Both palettes have different colour sets. One contains Winsor and Newton Professional, the other Schmincke Artists watercolours. I have two small sets of watercolours – one for home and one for my handbag. Sometimes I use a Pentel pocket brush pen to lay really dark areas. I like the Uniball eye pens and also use Staedtler pigment liners in 0.3 and 0.5. You are better off with a cheap sketchbook full of drawings than looking at a beautiful, empty sketchbook. If you find expensive paper intimidating, buy cheap books you don’t feel intimidated using. Good quality sketchbook is nicer to work with – as I found out recently here – but anything will do. These tools will be a good start if you want to try your hand at urban sketching: A sketchbook I believe in keeping my sketching kit simple. I love colour so it wasn’t long before I added watercolour. I started with a pen and a tiny notebook. Drawings are usually quick and made while I am out and about, so my urban sketching tools need to be easy to set up and portable. ![]() My sketches tell a story and record a time and place. Urban sketching is drawing on location, capturing what we see from direct observation. I often get asked, “What do you sketch with?”. Some of my favourite urban sketching tools
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