Charcoal on Toned Paper Materials List
Charcoal, toned paper and a few good erasers: everything you need for my charcoal on toned paper classes.
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Charcoal Pencils
Any good charcoal pencils are fine. Have at least one each of HB, 2B and 4B (two of each is better).
- General's Charcoal Drawing Set — my favorite charcoal pencils: 2B, 4B, 6B and white
- Vine charcoal — for gesture drawing
Paper
One or two sheets per class.
- Canson XL Newsprint Pad — for gesture drawing
- Strathmore Toned Gray Sketch Pad, 11 x 14 in
- Canson Mi-Teintes Grayscale Pastel Pad, 9 x 12 in — good gray toned paper for longer drawings
Drawing Board
A board 16 x 20 in or 18 x 24 in holds your reference and paper.
- Drawing board
- Board clips — 6 to 8 in varying sizes; binder clips are fine
- Artist tape — or painter's blue tape
Erasers + Sharpeners
- Tombow Mono Zero Eraser — fine detail
- Staedtler Mars Plastic Eraser — must have
- General's Kneaded Eraser — must have
- AFMAT Long Point Pencil Sharpener — for the studio
- Kum Long Point Pencil Sharpener — for travel
Additional Materials
- Sketchbook and pencil — for notes and sketching
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