#art materials

[gooberscollage]

Illustrations from The Ant And The Pigeon by Lev Tolstoy (1988) - Illustrations by Mikhail Komadin

[drachenmagier]

I HAVE R❤️A🧡I💛N💚B💙O💜W CRAYONS!

Now for the question I got asked a lot by artists friends and which is certainly of great interest to the artist community on tumblr too:

They taste terrible.

[snippit-crickit]

What kind of sketchbook do you use and traditional materials?

I love your art!!!!!!!!!

Have a nice day!

TALENS Art creation for the win!!

the pages in it are awesome for all kinds of mediums, paints like gouahe or even watercolors work well in it,

and for tradi matierials i just go with whatever!!!!!!!! I like sometimes using kid art supplies, like these rainbow pencils theyre so goated

[saltwaterandstars]

I went to a witch market a few days ago and there was a stall run by an amazing woman who makes her own paints from natural materials. Anyone who knows me knows that if I was a dragon, my hoard would be of colours/paints/pigments. And so, inevitably, I bought this dinky little tin from her. The brownish paints are made from different kinds of soil, all local to where she lives. The black is from charcoal that she makes. The blue is from Japanese indigo plants she grows in her garden. The tin also has some sticks of charcoal, a piece of chalk from the hill she lives on, a pencil, a brush, and a shell to put water in. The paints are in acorn shells!

Will I actually use them to paint? Perhaps not. Will I regularly open the tin and admire the contents while purring loudly? Without a doubt. To me these materials are, in themselves, art.

[moonandtrees]

[karnessah]

Heyyy, just wanted to say I absolutely love your stuff and you’ve kinda reignited my passion for making art again. I’m not a professional artist at all, I just do it for fun, but I wanna try out traditional drawing and wanted to know what you used for inking and things like that?

Hi! I'm really glad my work motivated you to pick up art again!

Here's materials I usually use:

Fountain pens are like dip pens, but less annoying, also it's cheaper, than buying fineliners. Just make sure it's reffilable if you are going to buy it!

But you can also use gel pens or ballpoint pens for fine lines, if you are on a budget. I inked this page with pen someone gave me for free lol.

But if you have a steady hand - you can just use UniPin fine line Brush or something similar for both thin and thick lines!

[camelidae]

I started using water pens early in my experimenting with watercolors and I never looked back. They probably wouldn’t be too useful for large-scale watercolors, but for smallish illustrations like I do, they’re just right. Easily portable, and I love being able to control the amount of water I’m mixing into the paint without having to dip repeatedly.

(and I love, love LOVE not having to have a glass of water nearby for little kitties to try and drink from, fail to drink from, and then spill dramatically onto my work.)