/loomis/ - Art Gains

>Have the skills

Post the work

What's your goal?

mango studious

Krita.org fam

>>1466

I need the tools, such as a camera/tablet/etc

>>1524

Some of the recommendations are terrible.

>Office Printer Paper

Just get a sketchbook at your local art shop. It's cheaper and it's meant for drawing unlike printer paper.

>Electric Pencil Sharpener

The better and cheaper option would be a small metal sharpener that you use by hand.

>Huion

It's not as reliable as Wacom, but then again Wacom is expensive as fuck.

>No eraser

Sometimes the wood pencil erasers are absolute garbage. Get a reliable polyester eraser and/or a kneaded eraser.

>>1585

>Just get a sketchbook at your local art shop. It's cheaper and it's meant for drawing unlike printer paper.

There is no sketchbook paper that is anywhere near as cheap as printer paper. However I agree a sketchbook should be on there anyway.

>The better and cheaper option would be a small metal sharpener that you use by hand.

I don't know, I've had bad luck with them, my electric sharpener never fails.

>Huion

While I have an Intuos 5 large that I enjoy very much, I've used a Huion and they are actually quite good considering they're 1/3rd of the price.

>>No eraser

This is mostly a suggestion for a very very beginner whose work will not be worth salvaging in most cases.

>>1524

OP here.

I use school-tier notebooks, palomino manual sharpener, palomino blackwing and papermate mirado classics, and I did have paint tool sai.

Anything else, besides the book and tablet?

>>1741

>school-tier notebooks

Don't use lined paper fam, printer paper is cheap.

>palomino manual sharpener

Nothing wrong with that but maybe try sharpening a pencil manually with a knife or something. I just started doing that myself-it's actually pretty comfy and you can shape it to your liking (I usually leave the lead a cylinder shape and begin to draw with that, it eventually turns into a point on its own).

>palomino blackwing and papermate mirado classics

Blackwings are overpriced meme-pencils; I'd just use USA Gold or whatever low-cost brand you can find and invest in real charcoal pencils.

>>1744

Thanks for the advice

I was going to get more palominos but now I'm getting USA Gold