hi, i saw your post on fuckyeahmoleskines. how was that piece done? what medium?
Heya, they posted my drawing pretty fast!
1. So, obviously I drew in a Moelskine, I tend to only draw properly on the right hand page of any sketchbook, I don't really know why, maybe because it is always going to sart off as a clean blank page, with nothing on the reverse side of it.
2. I usually draw from my laptop rather than printing the picture out as I can zoom in on details. Also I don't know if you can see but there is a red grid lying over the picture on my laptop. I tend to draw a grid on my page then on the picture so I can get the outline of the picture on my page accurately as I suck at proportions (I really need I work on it). I know some people see it as cheating, not drawing it freehand and all, it takes me long enough to draw my pictures, if I were to do the outline freehanded, it'd probably take me a good 2-3 hours longer. So for now I'll shamefully stick to using grids.
3.Putty rubber, I rip little bits of it off when I need to use it so the rest of the bibber doesn't get dirty really quickly.
4. Standard rubber you get anywhere.
5. This is probably my favourite piece of drawing equiptment I own, it's like a mechanical pencil ... But there is a tiny rubber strip instead of a lead. It's great for little highlights.
6. This is a standard rubber, just a little flatter, so I guess you can rub out more presistly? I'm not too sure really.
7. If number 5 wasn't my favourite thing, this definitely is. It's an electiric rubber, I got it when I was 13 I think, just for the novelty of it. I found it again a year or so ago and it is amazing, you can get the sharpest lines and it can get the page practically back to white when rubbing out pencil.
8. Just a standard sharpener.
9. You can just about make out my electric sharpener, which is really good and never breaks the leads, though I can't use it at night as it is stupidly loud.
10. These are cotton buds? Ear buds? Q-tips? I don't know what you call them. I use them for blending small areas.
11. Tortillions, I think that's what thy are called, they really good for blending even smaller areas.
12. Just some tissue for blending larger areas.
3. Paint brush for brushing any little bits of rubber away.
14. My Faber Castell pencils I used 2H-6B for this picture.
15. I definitely didn't draw this ruler in because I forgot to put it in the picture, I only use it to draw out the grid on the page.
Yeah you probably didn't need that much detail in regards to materials I use, should have probably just put pencils..... As for how I draw it, I do the outline then work from the bottom left, then up and right, so I don't smugde what I have already done.
I really don't think this was that helpful, sorry.
