Drawing Kit + Inspiration
Things that I’ve bought / intend to use over the course of the semester!
Sketch books
I bought 2 new Canson sketchbooks — one for normal sketching and one for watercolours. The Kraft sketchbook is brown tone paper, I think this would be good for animal anatomy studies. The smaller sized black sketchbook is one that I already own but have yet to really fill up. I use it for on-the-go sketching!
pencils
The left side of the pouch holds the standard drawing tools that I already use. I used polychromos pencils in poly because that was what was taught but I hadn’t thought of using conté pencils so I went to get some. Conté seems to be similar in texture to the polychromos so I hope that it is a good alternative when it comes to pencil sketches!
Zig brushsables
No, I did not buy all these at once. I already owned a few ZIG Brushables previously. But I did buy more to add to the collection. I love colours, so I hope to incorporate more colours into my sketches.
Cretacolor sticks
Last semester, I practised figure drawing using charcoal quite a bit. This semester I want to try using other types of graphite/charcoal sticks so I got myself 3 types of cretacolor sticks. Cretacolor 48252 is a Nero Oil Charcoal stick that leaves more permanent marks on paper, which means I’d have a hard time erasing. I hope that it’ll train me to reduce my reliance on erasers!
Watercolour
I made this watercolour kit quite a while ago but I don’t think I’ve fully utilised it yet so now’s a good time to start I suppose.
White pen
This is for the brown tone paper! I hope that it’ll give my drawings good highlight and contrast along with the ZIG markers.
Artist Inspirations
1. Aaron Blaise
I think Aaron Blaise has an extremely good understanding of form and anatomy in both humans and animals. His character designs are visually very strong in structure and lighting, which I think can be applied in my work.
2. Ian McQue
I couldn’t find much human faces in Ian McQue’s work but I find that his mechanical object/vehicle paintings are good inspirations for lighting. He uses a lot of midtones, which makes his paintings very pleasant and easy to look at.
3. Max Grecke
Max Grecke illustrates a lot of caricature like character head shots which are based around strong knowledge of anatomy and structure.
4. Karl Gnass
I admire his way of breaking down and constructing forms. I think this is a reachable goal for me to accomplish this semester. I would love to be able to get closer to mastering using basic mediums such as charcoal and conté to construct form. I hope to improve on my observational skills, especially for tonal value.
Besides those goals, I hope that I’d improve on my colour usage (if we ever touch on colour?).