OFFSITE | Sketching II

Materials

Following is a list of recommended materials for the 10-week offsite course. If you have any questions, please let me know in slack channel so others may benefit from answers.

Pens & Pencils

For pens, I recommend a felt pen that doesn’t bleed with marker application. My go-to is a Papermate Flair, however feel free to check out others mentioned here - https://www.sketch-a-day.com/pens

For pencils, I recommend black Prismacolor Premier or something similar (waxy with thick, soft lead, not graphite). For more info - https://www.sketch-a-day.com/pencils

Markers

Minimum Marker Set

  • 3 Gray with 20-30% Spread in Value

  • One set of color in same color family (e.g. Orange) - 3 with 20-30% Spread in Value

  • Black Marker or Sharpie

Copic Marker Color System

Ohuhu Marker Color Test

Note on Marker Colors:

Color selection with markers can be somewhat tricky. When you're picking colors for your markers, you have to think about what it is you're using them for. Are you going to be drawing people, or are you going to be drawing products?

When selecting colors on a budget, you really only need 3 to 5 markers with a 20% difference in value for Mark in a marker. Unless you're a professional like myself who does illustrations with markers as commissions, you likely don't need a FULL SET of markers ranging in color, hue, saturation and value. 

Some marker brands have colors labeled by name, others by name and the number. Spend some time examining the markers that you use, because the systems for identifying colors are likely different from each other. 

Recommended: Copic Brand | Good alternative: OHUHU Brand

For more info, check out my marker guide, or https://www.sketch-a-day.com/markers

Paper

You’ll need printer paper and marker paper. We’ll be using printer paper for general sketching and marker paper for presentation sketching. Tracing paper is optional. For more info on paper types, check out https://www.sketch-a-day.com/paper

Marker Paper (Canson, Bienfang are my favorites) - https://amzn.to/4em0JGd

Printer Paper (Any kind will do. I generally go for cheapest) - https://amzn.to/3Vik0zq