Sketching Materials

• Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens
  Pigmented India Ink in multiple nib sizes... brings great versatility to pen-and-ink drawings requiring lots of intricate details. The ink is waterproof, unsurpassably lightfast, acid-free, and pH-neutral.
• Copic Sketch Markers
  Copic marker offers outstanding performance in all areas of design and illustration. Two versatile tips produce a range of strokes from fine lines to wide color fills. The roll-proof flat barrel is filled with alcohol based ink for a long life.
  
• General's Compressed Graphite Sticks- Like I used in the sketch above. 
  Graphite Sticks are extra-wide, making them ideal for sketching, rubbings, and creating backgrounds.
  Choose from three degrees, including 2B, 4B, and 6B. Each stick measures 3" long × ¼" high × ½" wide.
  
• Prismacolor Ebony Pencil- one of my favorites for Sketching
  The Ebony Pencil has long been the artist's favorite for sketching, drawing, and layout, with its thick, black, satiny-smooth graphite lead.
  
• Cretacolor Aqua Monolith Woodless Watercolor Pencil Sets
  Cretacolor's Aqua Monolith Watercolor Pencils are woodless pencils from Austria. They're colored pencils made of pigments and binders wrapped in a thin layer of lacquer.
  
• Derwent Watercolor Pencils
  professional-quality, water-soluble pencils offer the artist the freedom to switch from drawing to painting in an instant, with no change in tools. Use them to shade on dry paper, then quickly wash over with brush and water to get a blending effect.
• Winsor & Newton Watercolor Markers
  Winsor & Newton Watercolor Markers beautify your pages with highly pigmented, lightfast color in a spectrum of 36 brilliant shades.
  These markers have a double-ended design that includes both a fine point tip and a flexible brush tip, enabling techniques from subtle to precise.
  
• Molotow Grafx Art Masking Liquid Pump Markers  NEW Product I found, will give it a try
  A must-have for artists, these ready-to-use, refillable markers contain a water-repellant masking fluid that applies cleanly and rubs off easily, leaving no residue. Molotow's patented pump delivery system assures precise, mess-free application and sharp edges.
  Use Molotow Grafx Art Masking Liquid Pump Markers with your favorite Molotow markers, airbrushes, acrylic paints — even ultra-opaque, alcohol-based permanent inks. No brush required!
  Latex-free.
  
• Pentel Aquash Water Brush
  Ideal for sketching and drawing, the Pentel Arts Aquash Water Brush has a durable nylon tip that holds its point for better stroke control.
  Available in a variety of tip sizes, this versatile brush loads easily with water, inks, or fluid colors. What's more, the soft, easy-to-squeeze barrel has a shape that prevents it from rolling off surfaces.
  When filled with water, the Aquash Water Brush is great for use with pocket watercolor sets when painting plein air.
  
• NEW! Molotow Aqua Squeeze Brush Pens
  Coloring and painting are a piece of cake with Molotow Aqua Brush Squeeze Pens.
  These sophisticated application tools are easy to fill with water, fluid watercolors, or inks. Mix your own colors, thin them with water, refill, repeat! The water/paint flow is regulated by squeezing the pen's body.
  
• ​​​​​​​Koh-I-Noor Progresso Woodless Graphite Pencils
  The Progresso's solid, weighty feel and excellent laydown make it a great pencil for drawing and sketching.
  
• General's Flat Point Pencil & Sharpener
  Use the Flat Point Sharpener to create a perfect broad chisel point on flat sketching pencils, carpenter pencils, and other artist pencils.
  
• Holbein Academic Oil Pastel Sets 
  These superior student grade oil pastels feature smooth, even pigmentation and no hard spots or bubbles. They handle, blend, and clean easily.
  Like all oil pastels, Holbein Academic pastels do not readily break and can be used on virtually any surface. They're ideal for quick sketching. 

Use my brushes to do a little sketching in watercolor

1 1/4" Flat Series 020, #16 Round and a #4 Rigger Holbein Gold, Short Handle, Superior Synthetic Blend Watercolor Brushes. Made to my specifications, which were, The point of the 1 1/4" flat brush and the # 16 round had to come to a razor sharp point, along with a bounce back to straight action when applying watercolor to paper. The # 4 Rigger had to be the perfect length, the perfect thickness, and the perfect point.

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