Heart-to-Art: Sketchbook Supplies

Lily Young

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For this post, I thought it’d be nice if I could show you the tools I used in my sketchbooks. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to post another sketchbook tour, so I added some pictures from my current sketchbooks for you guys to see below as well. Anyway, here’s a list of (ridiculously costly) art supplies that I like to use:

1. Faber-Castell Goldfaber Sketching Pencils

These pencils are my go-to for drawing.
These pencils are my go-to for drawing.

All three of the portraits below were drawn using the Faber-Castell sketch pencils pictured above. The portrait on the far right was drawn from a live figure-drawing session and is in one of my current sketchbooks.

Three portraits
Three portraits
Two self-portraits I drew using the graphite pencils. The one on the right is in a sketchbook not shown in my sketchbook tour videos.
These two self-portraits I drew using the graphite pencils. The one on the right is in a sketchbook not shown in my sketchbook tour videos.

2. Faber-Castell PITT artist pens

My recent tool of choice when it comes to doodling in my sketchbook.
My recent tool of choice when it comes to doodling in my sketchbook.
I used the pens for my drawing of Robie.
I used the pens for my drawing of Robie.
I used the pens for the drawing, and watercolor pencil for the background.
I also used the pens for this drawing, and watercolor pencil for the background.

3. Faber-Castell Art Grip Aquarelle Pencils/ GRIP Watercolor EcoPencils

One of the first mediums I have ever tried in art.
One of the first mediums I have ever tried in art.

You basically use watercolor pencils as regular color pencils. I color in my drawings and then go over them with a brush dipped in water.

4. Prismacolor Color Pencils / Derwent Coloursoft Pencils

My collection of color pencils (organized by color of course).
My collection of color pencils (organized by color, of course).
Three colored pencil drawings.
Three colored pencil drawings.
I used color pencils for the portraits on the left.
I used color pencils for the portraits on the left.
A self-portrait using color pencils.
A self-portrait using color pencils.
My first ever drawing at my drawing class at East Art Studio.
My first ever drawing for my drawing class at East Art Studio.
Another color pencil drawing from 2011.
Another color pencil drawing from 2011.

Aaaaaaaaand that’s it for now! Thank you all for following my artistic journey!

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