Every artist has a different set of tools to make their certain brand of magic. I am no exception.

You have the basic pencil-ruler-eraser setup of course but it’s always interesting (especially for other artists) to get a peek at what the other guys are using. It’s our weird way of socializing I suppose since creating art is mostly a solitary activity and, like most craftsmen, us artists love to talk about our equipment.

I know. It sounds so wrong. Anyway…

Here’s what you’ll usually find on my drawing table.

(1) Compass with a screw lock so it can hold pens as well as pencils securely even if they have minute differences in terms of thickness.

(2) UNIPins technical pens in varying line thickness (0.1, 0.3, and 0.5). I usually use the 0.1 for most of my detail work, the 0.5 for creating panel borders, and the 0.3 for anything in-between.

(3) I use Sakura brushes to do most of my linework especially if the subject is organic in nature. I prefer using the no. 1 and no. 2 for most detail work. The no. 4 is my general purpose drawing brush.

(4) Staedtler clutch pencil refills. I use these for artworks that are not meant to be inked.

(5) Faber-Castell red-orange clutch pencil refills. These are for drawing stuff that is going to be inked later. I use red lines for sketching so I can easily cancel them out during the cleanup process in Adobe Photoshop. It makes linework cleanup a lot easier, faster, and painless.

(6) Staedtler clutch pencil. A clutch pencil is somewhat like a mechanical pencil except that the graphite is much thicker. Excellent tool for sketching and the cap doubles as a sharpener. I prefer clutch pencils because ordinary mechanical pencils’ have much thinner graphite and it tends to break easily as I tend to be heavy handed when I’m drawing.

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