In this lesson let's talk about the art supplies and what you actually need for your creative process. The workspace for drawing should have a table and a couple of natural light lamps. It would be nice to have Windows filling the space with natural light. Usually artists have a laptop with the printer to organize and store pictures. colored pencils can be organized by color and can be stored in small cups. And you just start out drawing light fastness is not as important as softness of the colored pencil.

So I would recommend Prismacolor and Karen dash artists brand for its softness. These are several different colored pencils polychromos manufactured enjoy Mini aluminum is the most expensive colored pencil available on the market. Permanent Pablo Curran dash colored pencil, light fast Prismacolor colored pencil Prismacolor colored pencil and then it's useful to have a pencil extender. Here you see two different colored pencil blenders. One is manufactured by Prismacolor and another one is manufactured by Karen dosha. And you can also buy a pencil sharpener.

Usually German pencil sharpeners work the best. The best professional colored pencils that match all the parameters in softness, light fastness and durability are the Vax based current dash luminance pencils. They are course very soft and they don't break easily. pigments are 100% light fast. The softness is about the same as Prismacolor Premier, but the fact that they don't fade of the paper makes a very big difference for professional artists. German oil based polychrome or colored pencils have a great separation, durability and softness.

They also live smoothly, but differ from Prismacolor. So luminance because their core is somewhat similar to soft pastels. I think you can buy a small set to try them out. Prismacolor brain premier colored pencils are very popular among artists because they're actually competitively priced. And they have the vividness and softness. Many artists like The only disadvantage is that they are not as light fast.

If you're on a budget, you can buy this set of colored pencils. Once again their light fastness ratings very, these are very nice colored pencils to layer the details. And just to work on projects, if you can't afford the very expensive brand light fastness is the ability of a color to retain its original characteristics and withstand the effects of light over time. Which means that light fast colors are not going to fade as quickly as other colors will. For instance, I can see that Prisma colors Parma violet has number five rating which means that you Soft poor light fastness light pitch has a number one rating, which means that it is light fast and so it's not going to fade this time. You can see that the light fastness is listed on the pencil itself.

The light fastness ratings would vary depending on the brand because when we look at German colored pencils, they have the light fastness rating in reverse. They're a three star colored pencils. The most light fast two star has a very good light fastness and a one star colored pencil has a reasonable light fastener So, just make sure that you match the manufacturer this the chart both colored pencils Have a lot of pigment in them. So when you draw it's very easy to reach the saturation that you might need while shading. soft and pliable kneaded eraser is wonderful to erase the marks without leaving the residue on paper. And it's great for colored pencil drawing.

Here you see other useful art supplies. You also need the final fixative for your drawings you can get away not buying the workable fixative final fixative protects your artwork from damage to sunlight and stuff like that. If you'd like to try completing an underpainting and then shading this color colored pencils on top of that, you can try markers or water soluble pencils as well. They have different properties. It is very important to match the materials with the paper you're going to work on. Because the art supplies can be great by themselves but if you start throwing on the wrong kind kind of paper, it becomes very frustrating quickly.

A lot of times manufacturers develop their own papers for their supplies. And you can look into this as well. For blending colored pencils, you're going to Need the solvent with a small brush, I recommend buying gamsol and kuranda full Blender there is nothing else that you need for that. Finally, you need an HP graphite pencil to sketch out the lines. The HP pencil doesn't leave heavy residue, which is perfect for college pencil painting. In this section I'd like to talk about papers.

The most important factor in choosing your paper is to measure the width of your brand of colored pencils. But you also want to look at papers thickness, texture, and color. The thicker the pages, the better it is because it's gonna stay flat. You want to have a very slight texture in your paper, but if you have too much, it's going to be very difficult to draw on it. Because textured paper tends to eat the colored pencils. If you have soft pencils, a very good paper is Stonehenge.

And if you have harder pencils, smoother papers would work just fine. I strongly recommend this brand of paper because they manufacture different surfaces, and all of them are really good. They also feature in and out features, which makes it very easy to store. The artwork. Bristol paper is the smoothest kind and it's very heavier. So when you open up and you test the page, you can tell that it's very smooth and By looking at the weight of it, you can tell that it can accept a lot of pigment.

It's a very heavier type of paper. When we get to colored papers, you've got to understand that one side seems to be more textured than the other, and you must be the paper that's quite smooth. Here I'm listing just a couple of papers that I often use in my drawings, but I must tell you that they work better with harder pencils, because it's much easier to blend and fill in the paper sooth, before you begin coloring, test your paper to see if the paper structure is minimal. The reason why I like to draw on colored paper is that colored pencils react to the paper's color, giving me much brighter color saturation, as well as unusual color combinations. It also speeds up the drawing process. Your paper should be close to the middle done to have easier control of values when you draw.

Such papers are usually grace blueish grace, or even dark oranges. Also, when you pick your paper, the color of your paper should be the opposite color to your local color you have in the picture. For instance, if you draw a landscape and it has a lot of blue in the sky, don't pick the blue paper pick the orange one because the blue colored pencils are going to react to the orange also tests your colors to see which one ones become brighter on the colored paper. Metallic and light colored pencils work well on very dark or even black paper. But many other colors of one show up as well on dark colored papers as you want them to be in. That's why you should test the colors during your blending step.

Thanks for watching, guys. I'll see you in our next lesson.