Material for drawing

Material

You will need:

  • A stack of plain printer paper – but it is allowed to experiment with other types of paper! I recommend using cheap paper to start with, because you want to do many drawings instead of trying to do the one perfect drawings!
  • Pencil, pencil sharpener and eraser
  • Thin black felt pen, best if waterproof.like.this one
    I also love this one which is a bit flexible. Try out what you like best!
    I use pens with a thickness from 0,7-1,2mm
  • Something for light shading. Either marker – the lightest grey you can find, or watercolour, or light grey crayon. I use this one, but you can use a different one. I use Light Grey no. 102 and Soft Rose no. 203, plus yellow. 
    Or, just use yellow!
    You can even use normal text highlighters! 
  • Crayons or felt pens or watercolour. Yellow, red, bright blue, light green. Light colours are best.

    Experiment! 




You can also draw on the iPad or another digital tablet. You can use any drawing app that supports layers. 
My favourite apps on the iPad are: 

  • Concepts (My absolute favourite, I use it every day! It is the most flexible. Great for simple drawings 
  • Procreate (the most popular. Great for painting, and very useful for retouching photos.)
  • Sketches (maybe the easiest to learn and it has a beautiful watercolour brush)
  • GoodNotes for notetaking and very simple drawings - black line + highlighter. Might be perfect for you! 





Another possibility is to draw black lines on paper, scan it with a scanning app like "Carbo" or "Dropbox", and then colorize your drawing on the computer in an app like Gimp or Photoshop.  

Bonus: 3-hour Simple illustration Crash Course