#crayola fine line

[nyk-g]

My art stuffs <33

reposting cause I accidentally deleted it lmaoo

So excited to get home n do some more flowers fr

[pink-crayon-princess]

Kiddos, I have to put you on to these markers. I will never be coloring with anything else.

The consistency is like paint, except it flows like ink. Super satisfying!!!

There is ZERO bleeding even through cheap paper

The colors POP off the page (look at the white!! These pics aren’t edited at all)

Brush tip and fine tip

You can draw over dark colors with light colors

The ink is super forgiving, even light colors. I notice it disappears a little bit if you accidentally draw on the lines

It dries down instantly

Here’s a look at a page that I thought was a lost cause because of the crayola markers I used on the other side, before and after:

And yes, that silver is metallic!! My pictures don’t do any of this justice.

Best part - they’re only like $8 for a 24 count and they offer replacements and stuff if you have any issues.

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Go forth and color!!

dni if nsfw

[theboxkid]

What do use to draw, cause aint jo way these master pieces are made on ibispaint

And you’d be right!!! I draw traditionally and color my pieces with crayola crayons, for line art I like to use optimum fine point pens but i lost it so I used Microns instead Hope this helps 💛💛

[beekindac]

Nothing special, just something blue and hopefully soothing to look at. I hope your week is treating you well and that you have a chance to bask in the sunspots.

For those that have asked for materials used, I am so sorry I didn't include that so much before. I started this blog to track my progress, get better at posting things (without feeling like I wanted to vomit), and hopefully provide something to make people smile. It honestly didn't occur to me anyone would care. 😶I have NO idea if I can add that to older posts, but I'll check with my trusty tumblr experts (my kids).

Otherwise, I use mostly Winsor and Newton Pro Watercolors, with a couple of Daniel Smith colors thrown in due to price mostly (Sap greens, Phthalo Blue, and Sepia). I use Arches or Baohong(Meeden) Paper, and my brushes I use most are the Aqua Elite from Princeton (Mostly because I save my WN Series 7 brushes I got for my birthday for commissions), and also I LOVE LOVE LOVE the 000 round from Christy Rice's collection.

Gouache is also Winsor and Newton Pro and I use their Student brushes (the bright blue ones) - these are actually the BEST starter brushes I have encountered. I wish I had found these when I first started. otherwise I use my older SNAP brushes from Princeton, sine you need a bit hardier a brush to stand up to the gouache.

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Also - a note to anyone starting out in watercolor - quality makes a HUGE difference. While I would say work with crayola if that's what you have, just get to know it's limitations compared to the continuum of paints and you'll be fine (I.e. a lot of student paint can't be mixed well to get other colors). Chances are, if you can't get it to do a thing, it's because of a material you are using. Good paper can handle a lot more water, scrubbing, layers, pigment. good brushes don't drop all their water at once, they hold better lines, and more pigment. -- All things others better than I have said before, but it's SO true it bears repeating.

[littlehousebigsociety]

I was reading a book on darning. Apparently the way I darn socks isn't an "official" technique 😂 although it shares some aspects with English darning. Whatever. I hated most of the techniques in the book 🤣 but it still indirectly inspired me to try combining sashiko with square darning.

This pair of pants tore a small hole in the knee ages ago. I've had them in my mending pile while I waited for inspiration to strike. Basically I ran random stitching vertical and horizontal, not trying for regular length of stitches or distance between lines, except in the very center where I picked up extra lines and then wove them from the opposite direction in a square darn.

Supplies: Olympus 100% cotton sashiko thread in navy (103), and a small metal mixing bowl for a darning "mushroom"

Work in progress, below. While the vertical lines were easy to keep straight by following the lines in the denim, horizontal proved impossible without drawing guidelines (in brown). (Not widely approved of, I'm sure, but kids super-washable Crayola fine tip markers are great for this imo. 👍 So far they've always washed out for me.)

The hole, from the reverse, because I always forget to take "before" photos:

My only regret is that I didn't put an additional piece of denim behind the hole as reinforcement. That may or may not backfire on me. However, so far I'm very please with the outcome. I washed them, everything held up, and the patch is comfortable when wearing.

[floral-ashes]

Do you remember this?

That footnote was actually me! And I’ve now published a book called Gender/Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body that also walks the fine line between serious insight and shitposting.

Choice quotes include:

“Lacan can eat a cactus dick.”

“Besides, we all know I pursued vaginoplasty because women’s clothing has no pockets. It was either that or learning sewing.”

“I would merely end up disallowed from myself. Drafting memos on tax law instead of writing sex jokes in the footnotes of peer-reviewed papers. Solemnly deliberating the minutiae of doctrine instead of showing colleagues my tits. Respectability is a slippery slope.”

“So I’m sitting there, crayola jizz on my titties…”

“I have not succeeded in my craft despite horniness but because of it.”

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

*holds out crayola 24 pack* I'll let you use my crayons if you write a lil something about foul legacy with a doll/puppet/automaton reader :)

like, foul legacy watching you pop your limbs off and getting scared untill you assure him that it's a perfectly normal part of your self maintenance, or foul legacy getting confused when you dont give off heat but loving you anyway? abdksjk foul legacy listen to the gears in your chest turning like it's your heartbeat

woah,,,,, i'll put this right up on my fridge :)

you don't SMELL organic, that's the first thing he noticed- you smell like chalk and ice and very cold sparks instead of flesh and blood, the thin lines and ball joints of connectivity jut visible beneath the fabric of your clothes. but he doesn't ask anything of it- after all, who's he to judge? he's a massive moth-like Abyss monster! so Foul Legacy ask nothing and questions nothing, since you love and give him love the same way as a human might. until, one day, you decide that it's high time you give yourself a little fixing up and do some maintenance. your shoulder's been bugging you for a week or two, so you roll up your sleeves and promptly pop your arm out of its socket, leaning over to take a look at the joint. there's a small spark of multicolored energy at the separation, but it dissolves into shiny wisps in the morning light

there's a shriek of horror, and Foul Legacy tackles you and grasps your detached arm in his claw with a panicked screech

you hastily reassure him that you're fine- see, everything's fine! this is normal! but Legacy chitters and whines as he frets until you grab his hand and gently bring his claws up to rest on your shoulder, right where the socket is. he whimpers at first, the sound slowly dying as his throat as he investigates your body, the joints and puppet strings gliding under his fingertips with a curious chirp. finally Legacy concedes, but he insists on holding you in his lap to watch you, making sure nothing bad happens. halfway through the maintenance he dips his head down and presses it against your chest, listening to your internal mechanisms. the energy hums and flows, reacting and exploding and doing everything over again to keep you running, and Legacy treasures it like how someone listens to their beloved's heart after a long day

it means you're alive, after all. alive and with him for him to love and you to love back. and he won't ever let someone string you up like a marionette, ever

[mcromwell]

question: whats the difference between wax, oil and soft pastels? (different materials of course, but how do they feel on paper?)

Hi Anon! I love pastels, let's dig in.

Wax pastels feel like a soft Crayola crayon. In hotter temps, they feel like spreading a stick of butter across a pan. In colder temps, well, like frozen butter. Mmm. They're water soluble sometimes, and I think those are softer, and the non-water soluble ones are denser and feel more like how any other crayon feels, but with better pigment loads. Good Crayon. Artist-Grade Crayon. Accepts a certain amount of scratching, but not as much as oils.

Oil pastels are very soft and sticky. They're sometimes so soft you can smoosh them between your fingers. They feel extremely smooth going across paper and very textured surfaces will eat them alive. They're basically really really gummy oil paints, so you can treat them as such with thinning chemicals and whatever. (Sorry, I am not an oils person, lol) You can scratch them away for fine lines, too. They don't dry out quickly (or perhaps at all), especially if you layered them on thick, so a special type of fixative is needed for oil pastels.

Soft pastels are like chalk. (There is confusion in my mind on whether to use "chalk pastel" over "soft pastel", but I think the differentiation lies in that soft pastels actually don't have actual chalk in them. From what I can find out, "chalk pastels" are just dyed chalk and not artist-grade. This is tangential, lmao, my bad.) Soft pastels are powdery, crumbly, very breakable. I often Hulk smash them in my hands as I color. It is heartbreaking to drop them on the floor. They taste extremely bad; do not eat dry cereal while you are working on a soft pastel piece. They're bad to breathe and technically require a particle mask* if you're using them a lot. They feel like chalk on paper! There are also PanPastels, which are pigments in a little pan and you apply it with sponges, similar to makeup. I haven't used those, but I want to. I'm pretty sure soft pastels come in pencil form, too. I'm rambling. Anyway these can't be scratched off, but can be erased, more or less. So you can dig some white values back out with an electric eraser.

If I made any mistakes, someone correct me. But that's what I know about pastels. Thanks for the opportunity to infodump.

*I don't do this. If the particulates don't kill me, the microplastics will.

[puppicups]

recent art spreadddd

i was experimenting with some coloring because I usually am scared to color my sketches when I do traditional drawings 😭 but the red that I used IVE HAD SINCE I WAS 7 AND IT JUST NOW DIED ON ME😓😓😓😭😭😭

just being silly tho since I havent drawn in a bit <3 :D

vvv supplies vvv

orange color - Zebra Mildliner double ended

red color - crayola supertips marker and bodymark BIC tattoo pen lol

gray color - sharpie fine point

line art - Hampton art. calligraphy marker 2.0 mm and 3.5 mm

[marblegroves]

Just saw your sketchbook post and I am amazed at how clean it all looks O_O /pos

So I was wondering, what materials do you use for your traditional drawings (all the stuff from sketch to final piece)?

BOY AM I GLAD YOU ASKED THIS *ahem*

Behold 😌

For the sketchbook pages, I mainly stuck to these materials though ^^ these guys are my…

PRIMARY MATERIALS

The green mechanical pencil on the picture on the left has 0.7mm colored lead in it! I alternate between blue and pink colored leads depending on what fits the overall color of the piece better.

Once I finish up the sketch, I line it with the black pilot ballpoint pen! I really like the control and feel of ballpoint pens for traditional lineart, because it gives a sort of variety in pressure I can’t seem to achieve with normal fineliners. I like to switch up the colors of the lineart too sometimes, hence the pink and red ballpens.

Then once the linearts done, I color them in with the stabilo highlighters, as pictured on the right! These guys are my FAVORITES. Sometimes when I’m just freely sketching I use the grey or peach mini stabilos. Although, they do tend to be a bit runny, ‘cause they’re meant for quick highlights and not multiple strokes over an area ^^; so you do have to be careful and quick when coloring with them to get an even coat of color!

Sometimes, though, when there are other colors or textures I want in a drawing, I use my…

SECONDARY MATERIALS

Pictured above are all my alcohol based markers! The four on the left are neon sharpies for when I need that extra eyestrainy kick. The three promarkers with the pointy cap were from when I was a freshman in uni and wanted to collect a full set of alcohol markers, but these were the only colors they had in stock and the college supply store ✌️ I’ve since given up on that dream because they were really expensive ;; they’re really good for sunny grassy scenes though! The last dark blue marker was from a set of other blue markers, but the others have since dried out… I use it when I really wanna darken up a page, like for night scenes!

This is my prismacolor set! I like to pair these with the markers, going in after the initial layer of color to give a bit of variety or shine. Some examples of when I use them would be for adding blush or giving hair a glossy sheen 👍

These ones are my “fuck it” materials lmao

I use these when I really just wanna scribble something down wildly. I had these since I was in gradeschool and its quite frankly a miracle they still work? Oh, and the red and yellow twistable crayolas are missing because I vaguely remember giving them to some childhood friends for some reason 🤔

My fineliners and gellyrolls! Haven’t used these much recently tbh. I’d used them for class before, but I never really likes how flat the thickness tends to be :/ the brush tips and chisel tips are cool though. I used them for that one yellow bdubs doodle to try and see if my opinion of them has changed ^^ it hasn’t. Moving on…

Lastly, we have the special materials! The ones that don’t really go into any sets, or have nice applications. In order from left to right:

Wink of Stella - A brush pen that applies glitter through some sort of black magic. No idea how she works but I love her

Red Marvy Art Director 1400 - A red fine tip marker. Can’t go wrong with a bright red marker 👍

Golden Posca - My only posca marker. Figured if I should get one it might as well be something special.

Faber Castell Blue Highlighter - I use this alongside the stabilos. It has a really nice deep blue color ^^

And well! That should be everything! ^^ Thanks for giving me an avenue to gush about my materials lmao 🥰

[lordvonbunnyv]

Expanding on my last post, here’s what all of the engines would do if given art supplies (modified for them to handle, I.e tapped to the end of a long chopstick for them to hold in their mouth)

Thomas: does a coloring book page of himself in blue, does not stay in the lines at all because lines are overrated.

Edward: takes his time to make his drawing look as nice as he could. Draws a flowery field with sheep

Henry: “okay, this is a postmodern contemporary abstract take of my forest inspired by pollock done in wax crayola crayons and… to be honest, I can’t draw at all.”

Gordon: gets frustrated, rips up the page and accidentally swallows the crayon.

James: rage quits and spits his crayon out and then runs over it.

Percy: is too busy trying to sniff the markers and crayons than actually doing any art.

Toby: has Henrietta pose with Percy while he tries to draw them.

Duck: draws the Great Western Way ™ which is try and draw a map of his line before realizing how hard that is and settling with drawing an ocean with boats.

Donald: draws dilly in pink because he thinks that’s dilly’s favorite color.

Douglas: an albino polar bear lost in a snowstorm, aka left the page blank.

Oliver: tries to draw toad, found it too hard so he scribbled it all in black and called it “toad during a blackout”

Emily: draws flowers but they came out looking like blood splatter.

Marion: has a paint brush taped to her shovel and paints rocks.

Cranky: drops buckets of paint onto a cloth

Skarloey: tries to draw the welsh dragon but with train parts, came out looking like a red blob.

Rheneas: tries to do a self portrait.

Sir Handel: is not having any of it because he thinks his art looks terrible.

Peter Sam: eats the black crayon “this coal tastes funny”

Duncan: starts out fine, messes up, rages and makes a huge mess of his drawing

Rusty: is having the time of his life.

[ckret2]

Bill's handwriting in Journal 3 Blacklight Edition™ is one of my favorite things. He writes like: ↗️↘️↗️↘️, aaand it looks chaotic at first but you can see a pattern in there.

I wonder if you have any headcanon of how his dimention's writing was is like?

Yes, and I've actually written a post about handwriting in his dimension already! It's right here. 

I've already made references to his home dimension's writing system in fic, although it hasn't been described in depth because the scenes are from Bill's POV and he doesn't consider his own writing system noteworthy enough to merit a description. It'll actually get described properly in fic when we can see it from a human's POV. I think all the references to his writing system so far come in chapters 23 & 24:

Mabel had spilled out her crayons in front of Bill plenty of times; sometimes she even let him use them. It had taken some careful timing and preparation, but a few days ago he'd grabbed the unloved grey and greenish-yellow crayons—the sharpest in her collection—during a moment she'd left him unsupervised.

This is why he had to grab two crayons. Gray and greenish-yellow were chosen because in my own childhood crayon boxes, those were always the least loved crayons (for most fine detail work, why bother using gray if you already have the black crayon out; and I just thought crayola's yellow-green didn't look very nice and had few applications where green didn't fit better); and also because, out of the unloved crayons, they're most similar to Bill's preferred black and yellow/gold. (Naturally, black and yellow crayons are staples of the crayon box, and thus too risky to take.)

After a moment of thought, he wrote, "Don't remember if I was a human or a shape. My organs were doing things a shape's shouldn't." (He wrote "human" as 人; there was no translation for the word in the language Bill wrote in. The two angled strokes stood out in Bill's rows of Morse-like dots and dashes.)

I went through every translation of "human" on wiktionary and out of them all, Chinese 人 is the most visually similar to Bill's language—just two lines—and thus the least disruptive to insert in the middle of a sentence. I imagine when he has to insert an untranslatable foreign word in the middle of his writing, he just flips through every language he knows and picks the one that's least visually disruptive.

[barbedwireheartz]

heya, the name’s valentino — but some call me val. i live in paldea, though was born and raised in galar. i attend naranja-uva academy, also being a casual champion of paldea too. oh, and a long-distance student & ex-champion of the blueberry battle academy. also a black belt of the master dojo, i help out whenever i go back home.

this is a personal blog, not one of those silly lil professional ones. i’m here to blog random shit tbh, so don’t expect much from me. k bye 👋

me~

male — he/him

born and raised galarian, live in paldea rn

arven ᡣ𐭩

my team~

i found him fighting a zangoose in south province area one, and he ended up being injured (though he did win). i patched him up afterwards, and we ended up getting along beautifully - so, i took him in and added him to the team. he’s definitely a trickster, constantly causing mischief. he loves being up on my shoulders whenever he’s out, i think it makes him feel powerful haha.

i discovered her as an applin whilst training in tagtree thicket, and i thought she was so adorable so i added her onto the team. she wasn’t going to be a part of my battle team, but i found out about the hydrapple evo line whilst at kitakami and one thing led to another. she’s a very sleepy pokémon, whenever i set up a picnic she’s asleep 90% of the time. she is also incredibly affectionate, debatably more affectionate than an arcanine.

ilayda actually found us as a popplio, when the rest of the team was having a picnic and verena was dancing to my singing - ilayda joined in out of curiosity and excitement, and she hung out with us for our entire picnic before i ended up catching her and adding her to the team. she and koray are mated partners, and she’s seen as the mother figure to almost everyone else. she loves being given attention, and loves showing off.

i discovered him on accident whilst in kitakami’s timeless woods - i accedentally pissed him off, and after crayola swiftly defeated him he ended up joining the team. most of the others see him as a father figure, whilst he’s mated to ilayda and highly idolises crayola. he’s extremely hyper-vigilant, and is always the first to notice when something is wrong.

verena approached me whilst i was training in alfornada to take on gym leader tulip, drawn in by my appearance i’m assuming - she decided it was worth sticking around, and after helping me obliterate tulip’s team she officially joined as a team member. she loves to relax, unwinding by dancing to music - whether from the phone or from me singing. she is still easily enamoured by other people’s appearances, and loves to look at people; observing and taking in their physicality & fashion choices.

i actually found crayola during a week-long vacation to paldea with my family before officially moving, being unaware of the rules around the great crater (trust me, arven’s already given me an earful). i found them injured, and the others were continuing to ostracise and attempt to harm them - so i caught them and patched them up before they officially became my partner pokémon. crayola is hard to budge, both personality-wise and in battle a - not a lot phase/ them. they have incredibly endurance, and love to battle.

OOC //

hihi, it’s domino! figured with it being the new year it was about time this blog got a refreshed intro post. likes and follows will be from @w0nderl-ust, but the hub is @w0nders-of-ardent!

PELIPPER:-

mail — on

unmail — off

malice — on

MUSHARNA:-

mail — off

malice — off

MISC.:-

magic anons — off

mystery gift — off

union circle — ask

GUIDELINES:-

- everyone involved is adults, but nothing suggestive of nsfw

- not everything is going to be 100% canon

- in-character banter & hate is fine and even heavily encouraged! be annoying!!

- happy to interact with any type of blog

- i hold the right to block someone or delete an ask for any reason (don’t be creepy/icky and you’ll be fine)

- triggers will be tagged as “tw [trigger]”!!

TAG SYSTEM:-

#💌 val posts -> posts made ic

#💌 val shares -> reblogs made ic

#💌 val answers -> ic ask responses

#💌 team member [name] -> posts including specific team members

#🗝️ ooc dump -> posts that are ooc

#🗝️ ooc rb -> reblogs that are ooc

#🗝️ ooc response -> ooc ask responses

#🗝️ lore drop 💌 -> :]]]

PAST ARC(s):-

the hisuian explosion — paired with @midsommarsanctuary — #PAIRED ARC: the hisuian explosion

valentino discovers an abandoned hisuian sneasel lost in the woods near casseroya lake, and is tasked to take care of him until he can be properly retrieved.

an unusual friend — solo — #ARC: an unusual friend

clive, who valentino knows well enough by know is just a student-sona for clavell to use, starts talking to valentino a lot about area zero — but why?

CURRENT ARC(s):-

none.. atm

ref <3

team ref pending!

[thickness-protection-program]

Alright okay, specific pencil recommendation shit: beginner tier and budget mostly. I'm still teaching myself to draw and use color better and rn I stick to coloring books I snag from a grocery store with cheapass paper but really cool things to color, I like a soft and buttery sorta feel, and bright colors, and so far the Prismacolors are doing me fine but like, I DO eventually get more than the set of 36 I nabbed already. OH and I also eventually wanna do mixed media with watercolors too

Ok for a beginner on a budget again I recommend arteza (either the standard or expert sets bc they work basically the same) and brutfuner. You can get 120 brutfuners for less than 30$. Tthe square barrels might be a tad uncomfortable and hard to sharpen but they are surprisingly really smooth for a cheap pencil. Um there's another brand called arrtx that I've heard are very similar to prismas but I haven't yet gotten my hands on a pack. But I plan on it! Oh! And since you like softer pencils I won't recommend standard crayola then (even though I always recommend Crayola) but I recommend the Crayola Signature line. After using both there is definitely a difference

As for your coloring books I don't like to use most of them from general stores bc the pages are usually either really thin or really smooth, both of which makes it hard to use pencils. If you can find a way to make the pages rougher or find one with a little more tooth on the page that could make a world of difference for your colors.

And finally prismacolor does make watercolor pencils if you wanna experiment with those sometime. They're not my cup of tea personally but you might like them better and if so that's fantastic

[mold-ridden-heart]

Vex’s Art School!!

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Welcome star child to my art school! AKA where I give out free art tips!!

A special follower of mine wanted me to give them some art tips, so let’s get into it! :D

I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember, when I was only a toddler I made an ‘organ book’ filled with pictures of organs and what their name was, so I’ve been doing this a while.

When I was at 7 I had a box for crayola markers and a bunch of copier paper making made up animals and sub-human species, making stacks and stacks of drawings that I’d proudly show my mom and dad.

Because I’ve been drawing for so long, my art style as developed in a way that is most comfortable for me to draw in. And I get it, I’ve been in the phase of ‘my art is terrible compared to everyone else’s!!’ But let me tell you how to get out of that instead of me telling you how I draw so you can copy it.

Art is something you create for yourself, things YOU like drawing and are most comfortable drawing! For some people this is realistic art, a 90s DC style, alternative art, Cartoon Network looking art, whatever it is it’s valid! As long as you’re not an NSFW artist forcing people to see it. (It’s fine to do NSFW just don’t push it onto people :D)

Here’s what I did to build my art style.

Whatever art I saw, I’d point out the parts of the art I liked the most and apply it to how I drew, and if something looked wrong I’d mess around with things until I liked it!

Like with the Mark fanart I did not to long ago, while drawing that I came across a lot of problems I didn’t like. I just messed around with the line art and eventually it looked right!

Try and make a Pinterest board of art you like and take mental notes on what makes your art style and the art’s different, try and apply the stuff you like to aspects of your art style you like.

This looks different for everyone, like realist artists could look at pictures of real people and see what their style is lacking compared to real people, alternative artists could go look at people’s art style that they like and take notes on that, or cartoon artists could go watch Cartoon Network and build their art style off of that.

If you like the way I draw, take mental notes on what makes my art style so good. Like I put swirls in my character’s hair, make ears sharp, lashes long and draw chins a certain way.

What you half to remember is that your style is completely unique, not two art styles are the exact same. Never. Your art style is different from mine, the next guy’s the guy after that.

Another good tip is to trace over people’s art you like and simplify it into shapes to get a feel of how they draw and how you can change your style to that. It’s why I draw face shapes like how I do!

You can watch as much art tutorials on YouTube as you want, but just make sure that your art style is the way that YOU like drawing. If it is the exact same as some else’s, it will cause problems with your art. You won’t grow, you won’t be able to draw most things, you will only rely on other people’s art to draw.

I’m not saying that you’re supposed to ONLY supposed to draw in a way that is unique to you, no no, just don’t directly copy someone else’s art.

Happy day, pookies! Hope you benefit! :D

P.S., for the love of GOD start with a sketch and don’t go straight into line art to be different, it’ll only cause problems for yourself.

[dont-worry-honey]

OK

WHICH ART MATERIALS DO YOU USE?!

LIKE, HOW DOES YOUR PEN.. PEN LIKE THAT. THE LINES ARE SO AKHSOWHSIWHISJW

AND YOUR COLORS ACTUALLY COLOR

Please. I need to know.

Hi!! So I’ll be very honest I don’t use anything fancy!

So here’s the list and a funny story along with them! (You’re getting the whole experience)

INKING:

STA Pigment Liner Pack. (I found one in the street and I liked it so I went to look for more online. Almost died for picking up something from the street counter: 1)

- Pros: Waterproof! (For a while) And since it’s a pack, they come with many different sizes

- Cons: after some time the ink does erase a little, and loses its waterproof….

Sharpie Permanent Marker Ultra Fine (I was in desperate need for new inking pen.)

-Pros: Doesn’t ERASE!! Very strong pigment. Water proof. Lasts!!

-Cons: smell…

COLORING:

Royal & Langnickel 18 watercolors: (I just wanted to have something to do in school since I never had much work to do)

Pros: Very Travel Friendly

Cons: idk!! I’m not a watercolor person !! It’s the first time for me!!

Aenart 36 Dual Pens: (I was gifted this from the school!! The embarrassing part was that I sleeping when it all happened. They stormed in the classroom with a camera in my face saying: “YOUR WISH HAS BEEN GRANTED.” I practically jumped out of my chair! Apparently my teacher bought it for me!<3)

Pros: MANY COLORS!! VERY PRETTY!! White marker is perfect for shading white!! (I know nothing about shading)

Cons: none I love them

Staedtler 10 Triplus fineliner: (no story)

Pros: very fine! Very pigmented!

Cons: I don’t remember… maybe don’t put them near watercolor if not dried or applying?

Crayola Color Pencils: (I do not have a full pack. The ones I have are from elementary. I’m currently in college.)

Pros: I like them :) very affordable

Cons: idk! Maybe a professional knows…

Imperial Color Pencils: (I only have ONE! It’s the red one. Almost died for picking up something from the street counter: 2)

Pros: The red one is very nice! Very pigmented!

Cons: idk… I don’t have the full pack…

U Brands Gel Pens 30 Count: ( I got this from a secret Santa! A YEAR LATE. A YEARR!! So when I received it I was very pleased. The year wait was worth it)

Pros: many colors!! Glitter!! Metallic too!!

Cons: does NOT dry fast. Need to wait for it to dry or it will smudge everywhere. The white gel pen doesn’t work well. Get a special one for that! (Someone told me here which one but I already forgot….)

PROCESS:

So ofc sketch first!!

Inking: I use the STA pen for face and face shape. Since I draw Fukase (mostly), I use it for his face markings too. (After erasing sketch, I advice to touch up anywhere you used the STA Pen) For the Sharpie Pen I use it for the the rest. Background, body, clothes, etc.

Coloring: First I go over it with my watercolors. I put them down before I put down the markers. For example, I use the watercolor first for Fukase’s hair. Then I use the Staedtler Pens to get that bright red! For clothes (or anything else) I use Aenart Markers. For the background, I put my crayola/ imperial color pencils on top. Depends on the feeling I want. Then I usually like to outline my drawings with the U Brands Gel Pens. When I tell you I put glitter on all my drawings, I put it on ALL my drawings!! I LOVE SHINY!!

Conclusion:

I really hope this was able to answer your question! I’m pretty sure most of the things on my list are affordable! I also hope my process was able to help explain how I make coloring… well coloring (English is not my first language I apologize. I suck at my first language too, though). I also hope you enjoyed the bonus stories (I didn’t want to make this whole thing boring). If you have any more questions I’ll be happy to answer them!! Also THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I never thought someone would actually like how I color since I struggle big time with it,,, I’m self taught so I have no idea of the art basics of coloring.

Anyway, thank you so much again!!

- Honey

P.S. Due to legal reasons, not sponsored.