artstuff
Things I use:
pencils & brushes
- mediums sketching set
- pretty basic set of pencils (HB, 2B, 0, eraser)
- Mont Marte signature oil pastels (×36)
- my first set of oil pastels
- Mont Marte traditional mop brush
- Mont Marte sable rigger
- Mont Marte skin colour pencils
- a nice-to-have set of colours; these definitely improved the quality of my portrait sketches
- Mont Marte woodless graphite pencils
- I didn't even know these existed (HB, 2B, 4B, 6B, 8B, EE)
- Sand Suwanya's watercolours
- if you're in Thailand, do consider getting a set of Suwanya's natural pigment watercolours. They're available at BACC and Woot Woot Store at Warehouse 30
- MUJI coloured gel ink pens
- MUJI gel ink pen
- I generally use this as my go-to pen
- Studio360 Kyoto watercolours
- a set of five watercolours from Studio360: kimono red, matcha green, murasaki purple, arashiyama orange, and kamorgawa blue
- Renaissance brushes
- Sakura micron pen
papers
- Renaissance R.704 A5 sketch pad
- 90gsm Fabriano paper
- MUJI message cards
- I love making small watercolour "postcards" and coloured pencil portraits on these.
hardware
- Wacom Bamboo
- drawing tablet
software
- Krita
- currently my favourite tool for creating digital art and animations
- Dotgrid
- a grid-based vector drawing tool by Hundred Rabbits.
- Noodle
- a 1-bit drawing tool, also by Hundred Rabbits.
- Nasu
- another gem of a tool from the Rabbits. This one is a 3-colour pixel art tool.
- Sketchbook
- my go-to app for drawing on the go on my phone
- GIMP
- my initial favourite tool for graphic design, illustration, and photo processing