What tools do you all recommend?

[Darkrainer]

Hi,

I've been drawing with a pen on college ruled paper for the longest time. So much that I can't switch back to a clean white sheet of paper with a pencil. I want to break out of this mold but I want to do it right. What kind of pencils and paper *brand would be helpful* do you all recommend *for character sketches, figure drawing.* Also, what kind of tablets do you all recommend? I have a small tablet that I rarely use because it always messes me up when I draw on it. Again, please state the brand. Thank you all for reading this post.

DR

[Kaycy is tanning]

Doesn't really matter for practice. A nice bristol board or cheap newsprint is fine to draw on. There's much more expensive material out there like Coquille, but if you use that for practice, you'll be broke in a month from now eh.

For pencil brands, Conté - Fabre Castel or ST are all excellent and cheap. But honestly it doesn't really matter as long as it's a decent pencil, any pencil usually works fine for practice.

Tablet? I only know Wacom, I like it.

[Flake]

Use whatever you like, it's 100% a personal preference and experience thing that will have no impact on quality of your work.. Leighton would be better than you using a poo smeared stick. Because he was Leighton.

You may as well ask people to pick your favourite flavour of crisps. (Cheese & Onion btw...)

Also, what kind of tablets do you all recommend?
Wacom. or a second hand Wacom. Or a wacom from prehistory. Don't buy anything else, there is a good reason they have a 90% market share, they actually work really well, even the cheaper ones..

[gamerboi]

I'm clueless when it comes to papers, but as far as pencils go you could try a prismacolor col-erase pencil (you can get them in black) they're erasable colored pencils so they don't smudge as easily and they're awesome for figure and life drawing. Oh, and they're like 65 cents each so they're cheap too.