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FAQWhat pencils and supplies do you most often use? (Including coloured pencils )
For graphite drawings I use a fairly basic set of tools and I do have preferred brands. I mainly use Tombow Mono 100 pencils, Tombow Mono Zero Erasers, Blu-Tack (instead of a kneaded eraser), Tortillions, colour shaper and Tissue if I'm blending. I mainly use a smooth plate finish paper for graphite drawings, my preferred brand is Mellotex, but I also use Winsor and Newton Extra Smooth Bristol board. My essential kit is here http://pbird12.deviantart.com/gallery/30897635#/d5euwgp it's not exhaustive, but it's what I use most of all.
For coloured pencil drawings I use Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils and Blu-Tack and occasionally a touch of white acrylic for highlights if I've lost them in the colouring process. I like a Hot Pressed Watercolour paper for colour pencil drawings. It's smooth enough to keep everything looking ni

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Butterfly Fairies WIPby =SvenjaLiv

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A progress outline of my work on Butterfly Fairies, since various people showed an interest in seeing this stuff. I added a bit of info on each step, saying what I did and how/why. It's not a proper tutorial, but I hope it's interesting and/or useful to someone!

Finished work:

Fairies close-up:

~yvonne29 Mar 20, 2012 Traditional Artist

you make really good tutorials! they are very useful!i hope you make some more!!

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=SvenjaLiv Mar 20, 2012 General Artist

Wow, really? That's really great to hear! Thank you! I'll try to make more - if there's anything in particular you'd like me to cover you can always just tell me.

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~yvonne29 Mar 21, 2012 Traditional Artist

oke! i will do that!

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=SvenjaLiv Mar 21, 2012 General Artist

Awesome!

If you want to see some drawing progress videos I have some on my YouTube channel.

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~yvonne29 Mar 21, 2012 Traditional Artist

oo great do you have a link?

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=SvenjaLiv Mar 21, 2012 General Artist

Sure! [link] Hope some of them are useful! There's a ton of great drawing videos on YouTube in general.

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~yvonne29 Mar 21, 2012 Traditional Artist

great thanks! i will have a look!and yes there are so many drawing videos!

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~MermaidCatcher Nov 26, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

I really like them,

It gave me idea's for my drawings which aren't as good,i want to make them look 3D

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=SvenjaLiv Dec 12, 2011 General Artist

Oh awesome, thank you! And I'm glad it gave you some ideas. It's all down to practice really!

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~MermaidCatcher Dec 12, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

thanks! I am going to attempt to scan one of my drawings onto DA. So wish me luck!

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