What are everybodys tools?

[jaylethal]

I wasnt sure excatly where to post this so I figured this is the place. So what kind of tools to you guys use?

[Red Giant]

Traditional: Charcoal, graphite, hb mechanical pencil, black magic ink and dip pen, micron pens. Oils, watercolor, acrylic.

Digital: Apple Mac G5 dual 2.5, 2 gig ram, intous 2 a4 tablet, 23 inch mac cinema display. PC, 3 gig ht pentium 4, 2 gig ram, tablet, 19 inch monitor. Radeon 9800 pros on both. Software: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator cs, Painter 8,9, 3-D Studio Max.

[Moccomouse]

Right now I use a 0.5mm Draftmatic HB mechanical pencil, which is possibly the best pencil I've ever used.

http://yoas.net/alv-dm07.jpg

My sketchbook is a canson 8.5" x 11" hardbound (spiralbound generally does not last more than 2 weeks in my backpack, I guess I just abuse my stuff alot).
For painting, I almost always use just acrylics on masonite (Golden brand is my favorite, but Basic acrylics are very very cheap, and thus win.)

For digital, I use a graphire 3 6" x 8" tablet, and I run painter 8 and photoshop 7 on an eMac g4 with a 17" CRT screen and running Mac OSX Panther.

[SeraphSword]

For sketching/drawing I use a .3mm Draft/Matic (H lead), and .3mm Hi Tec C pens.

Digital is 4x5 Intuos3, with OpenCanvas, Artrage, or Gimp.

[darth massacre]

I use whatever works.....and whatever the client asks for.

[Skulldog]

Shear brain power. Rar.

Whatever I can use.
Sketching micron, ball point, shitty mechanical pencil.
Analog: Watercolor, color pencil, inks.
Digital: Painter 6.

[evildisco]

Traditional: Two mechanical pencils 0.5 HB and 0.7 HB, eraser(WOW) and electric eraser.

Digital:
Hardware: I Mac G4 800 Mhz 1 GB SDRAM and soon to arrive G5 Tower 2.5 Ghz 1 GB SDRAM ATI Radeon 9800 with 20 inch Panorama Flat Screen.
Wacom Intuos 2(my baby!).
Software: Photoshop 7.0, Painter 8 and Maya Unlimited 6.5(but I need to learn to use it yeesh.)

[figure2]

Traditional: pencil, pen, acrylics & oils
Digital: G5, Photoshop, Illustrator, sometimes painter
Working around the house: Black & Decker 1/2" drill, Skil circular saw, hammer, various screwdrivers, hand saw, etc.

[arghmisfit]

wood pencil, mech pencil, kneadble eraser, sometimes an electrical one (depending on what im going for), oils, gouche, prismacolor pencils and markers, tria inks. intous2, photoshop, oc. discman and headphones

[OxCreative]

Normal HB pencil, kneadable eraser, sharperner
Copic Markers

Digital: Pentium 4 ht 2.8ghz, 1gb ddr ram, painter 9, photoshop (only when i have to), and ................. a microsoft intellimouse (I am Wacomless :\ )

[look]

Traditional (which I rarely do..): HB mechanical pencil, 2B wooden pencil, uni-ball inking pens, oil pastel, occasionally acrylic

digital: 2.0GHz Intel 4, 30GB HDD (set 10GB aside for virtual memory), 1gig Memory, Wacom Intuos 3 (should've sticked with my graphire, darn thing cost me a fortune), openCanvas v1 and v3, photoshop touch up.

[Skulldog]

Traditional (which I rarely do..): HB mechanical pencil, 2B wooden pencil, uni-ball inking pens, oil pastel, occasionally acrylic

digital: 2.0GHz Intel 4, 30GB HDD (set 10GB aside for virtual memory), 1gig Memory, Wacom Intuos 3 (should've sticked with my graphire, darn thing cost me a fortune), openCanvas v1 and v3, photoshop touch up.

How's that Intuos 3 working for you Look? I got a rebate from replacing my stolen I2 about 5 mouths ago, and was thinking about putting it to good use if it's that big of a jump in qaulity.

[look]

How's that Intuos 3 working for you Look? I got a rebate from replacing my stolen I2 about 5 mouths ago, and was thinking about putting it to good use if it's that big of a jump in qaulity.
I cant tell the difference between drawing with I3 and my 3 year old graphire, beside the difference that I3 has larger drawing area. :/
I was a bit disappointed, I couldn't feel the extra 512 sensitivity level and tilting thing. But I suppose it's there and I'm just too slow and insensitive to notice it. XD
But if you used I2, sure, why not get an I3, at least I3 looks sexier. =) Oh and I dont know about the software bundle for I2, and i'm not sure if they upgrade the bundle for I2 either, but I3 comes with photoshop element and painter Essential. And they come with 3 extra regular pen nibs, and two specialized pen nibs (I still can't tell the difference between them, again assuming I'm too slow and insenstive). Those pen nibs are pretty cool though.

[nicolas]

http://www.nic-klein.com/images/Flix/pens.jpg

[SteveO]

Traditional- whatever really, I rather like mechanical pencils because I don't have to sharpen them, putty rubbers. Used to paint a fair bit, preferrred either oils or a mix of watercolour and acrylic on primered plywood. Haven't done painting for years although this place is inspiring me to give it a bash again.

Digital- Athlon643000 with a gig of pc3200 running SoftimageXSI, Zbrush, Painter Classic, PSElements ( rarely ) and I have a Graphire3 6x8 that I'm learning to use with PS and Painter.

[Denart]

http://www.nic-klein.com/images/Flix/pens.jpg
I see a spoon... :^^;:

[ADPass]

I have a question that i asked when i made a previous thread b4 a poster pointed this one out,

what is a decent scanner I can look for... or what should I look for in a good scanner.

[Evil_Sloth]

you should get a combination scanner and printer you can photo copy with them and do all kinds of things, they save you alot of money and space.

For traditional i use .3, .5 and .7 faber castell pacers with 2b, hb and 4h leads. .25, .3, .5 hi tec c pens (which rock), kneadable eraser (i want to get one that doesnt have a scent to it), im making a light box in my wood work class at school, cool grey pantone markers. artists white gouache. various sized brushes. white pencil, im going to order some prismacolor pencils (because all the other ones dont work properly).
For paper I use canson stuff (marker, water colour etc.) Plain white paper A4.
My faithful graphire 3 tablet, photoshop cs, painter 9 and alias sketch book pro. My computer sucks more cock then a chinese prostitute, so saving up for my dream mac g5 computer with dual 30 inch displayes and wacom cintiq 21 ux. only $20,000 more to go! :^^;:

[look]

you should get a combination scanner and printer you can photo copy with them and do all kinds of things, they save you alot of money and space.I don't know if that would work. Usually the combination ones don't do a decent job, at least not decent enough for artists. And the ones have high scanning and printing dpi would cost a lot more. Not to mention the toners ran out fast if you plan on printing your works in color.
Although most scanner and printers are really cheap now, you should be able to spend less than a hundred dollar and still get a scanner decent enough to get your 11x14 documents in. Handheld scanners aren't stable enough.

Can't really recommend any brand, since my scanner is 7 years old and I use my digital camera to document tradtional works most time. Digital camera works better with oil paintings and pastel works. Scanner tends to make the scanning too dark and lose a few colors.

[nicolas]

I see a spoon... :^^;:

heh, ya Den...that was for my coffee :zzz:

[Undertow]

well at least there wasn't a syringe in the picture too nicolas;)

2B, 3B, HB, F lead pencils (wood and lead holder), tough stick erasers, blenders, electric eraser, cleaning pad, rapidograph set, TRIA markers, Dual 1.25 processor G4 w/6x8 Wacom Intuos 2 platinum. Smirnoff Vodka w/ cranberry juice last night I was out of Cranberry juice so it was Mt. Dew, or Vox vodka by itself.
-Mike V

[look]

I see a spoon... :^^;:
There is no spoon....
- the matrix

[stoph]

im being really naughty i have hardly touched natural media for a few months now. well, no, thatd be a lie but admittedly ive spent most of my time on the PC.

Hardware: Pentium IV 2.8gig, 512 meg ram (I NEED UPGRADE!), N-VIDIA TNT 4 128meg vid card, 180gig HD (an extra 300+gig in the home server <3 ), 17-inch plasma flatscreen, (RIP) 6x8 Graphire..

Software: MS Paint. haha. nah uhh might as well be - im stuck with Painter 5 till my boss decides to gimme a raise, and i managed to get hold of Flash MX (tasty ;) )

anyone know where i can get Painter 8 or 9 and/or Illustrator (whatevers the latest version) for a good price?

[evildisco]

heh, ya Den...that was for my coffee :zzz:

Yeah right, that was for your heroin fix, admit it!

[dfacto]

I'm too poor for proper supplies. I use a .5mm Pentel mechanical pencil with whatever lead I happen to have handy, a Mar Staedtler (maybe, I can't tell anymore) eraser, and printer paper. On the comp I use a few not-so-legal programs, and an Aiptek 8000u, which I loathe with a vengeance.

[ItachiD]

I was looking in the search engine for a thread like this, figured id post in it wonder why this thread died.

Im cheap and use .5 bic mech pencils/ blending stumps(rarly use pencils now...)
.5, .7 papermate, bic, office depot, sharpie and piolet pens, from fine to ultra fine. If i see a pen in a store that says fine point or better i'll buy and use it, lol, no complaints so far. Im a cheap bastard. :P

[M.C.Barrett]

Traditional: 0.9mm mech pencil, 2mm clutch, Papermate Lubriglide ballpoint pen, Micron markers, Pantone Tria markers, crow quill pen, Speedball Super Black ink, vine charcoal, compressed charcoal pencils, white charcoal pencils, kneaded eraser, Sanford Magic Rub eraser, Artgum eraser, Strathmore Premium Recycled Sketch pad 11"x14", Canson Biggie sketch pad 9"x12". Sennelier LeMaxi sketch block 12.5"x12.5". Painting supplies are typically bought as a project dictates, and so vary widely. I haven't even posted any oil or watercolor paintings here so it doesn't really matter if I list them or not.

digital: 1.6GHz AMD Sempron, 512mb PC2700, don't remember what the video card is but it's cheap, 30gb somekindofharddrive, 6"x8" Wacom Intuos 1 tablet, 17" NEC Multisync 75 CRT monitor, WINDOWS NINETY-EIGHT FIRST EDITION, openCanvas 1.1, the GIMP 1.3.2, Artrage. Hooray for poor \o/

[cotron]

if it makes a mark, i'll try it..

[NoSeRider]

Oh my god, you guys are so artsey. Over at 3D forums they spew over MacIntoshes with intense hatred.

I have Intous 2 6x8 Wacom, Photoshop 7, Maya....and alot of 3d shareware.

I built a Dual CPU AMD 2400 with Geforce 6800 Card.

However, I realize you guys have MacIntoshes because of the Print Industry....I'm wavering on going into Print or 3D.

I have a PowerMac 7500 in the closet.

[SteveO]

Oh my god, you guys are so artsey. Over at 3D forums they spew over MacIntoshes with intense hatred.
.

That's probably because Macs aren't a good choice for 3D.

/flees