RGB BASIC DRAWING TECHNIQUES

Seeing an Object Out of Nothing (?) 
Playing With Strokes
Understanding Perspective Drawing
Materials
Composing a Subject
Techniques in Copying a Drawing

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Materials***(updated)

Remember our topic is freehand drawing. From the word itself, one is free to choose any kind of materials available on a desk. Anyway, you can use the following mentioned.  I have also included the materials used for oil painting, water color , ink and charcoal rendering for your further info.   

Materials for SKETCHING

• 15" x 20", 1/8" thick sanded, plywood (varnished if you want), or laminated with formica. This is more comfortable to use than a table. You can put it on your lap and feel free to sit anywhere, indoor or outdoor.
• Pencil (F, HB, B, 2B, E), or soft charcoal
• Erasers, kneaded eraser
• Any pen, ballpoint pen, sign pen, technical pen
• Sketch pad, eggshell paper, illustration boards, or just plain bond papers
• Paper stump, tissue paper or if you want, you can use your fingers to smudge the pencil lead

Materials for OIL PAINTING

• Oil colors (ask your local art shop about the best brands)

• selected sable brushes (select the numbers that suits you)

• linseed oil

• turpentine or thinner

• palette knife

• mixing plate

• easel (optional)

• pencils for sketch

• clean, heavy duty rags

• SURFACES:  canvas cloth (stretched, gesso-primed, on a rectangular frame)

Materials for WATERCOLOR

• tube or pan watercolors (transparent), or gouache colors (opaque)

• mixing plate

• clean water

• rags/tissue/cotton

• water color brushes

• SURFACES:  watercolor papers, master's illustration board

• Try to remember that only the best SURFACE papers must be used for effective watercolor painting (ask your local art shop about it) 

Materials for INK RENDERING

Ink rendering is plain and simply using INK as a medium. It is important to remember that one must use only the BEST, water proof inks available.  

• black INK (Special inks such as Rotring™ or Staedtler™ in brand)

• pointed brush #1

• technical pen (points 0.1, 0.3, 0. 5, 1.0) or waterproof markers of varied sizes

• clean water

• HB pencil for sketches

• SURFACES:  watercolor papers, sketch pads, illustration boards, ingress

STIPPLING (POINTILLISM) - is an ink rendering technique done by doing small, small dots until achieving a form and shade.  It is a tedious and taxing method.  This needs careful handling of technical pen (or you will ruin its expensive tip!) perpendicular to the paper.  See this sample which I rendered using technical pens.  (Please click the browser's BACK button to return to this page).   

Materials for CHARCOAL PAINTING

Materials for charcoal and soft pastel is just the same.  The application is best suited for portraiture.

• Soft charcoal lead (soft pastel colors for Softpastel painting)

• kneaded eraser (a very important TOOL!)

• sanding paper (used to powderize the soft charcoal lead)

• HB pencils for sketch

• brushes (used for smudging the charcoal)

• SURFACES:  master's illustration board (choose best illustration boards only!)

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