Drawing Safari Animals: Preclass

Welcome to pre-class!

This intermediate course needs pencils and sketchbooks – if you’ve taken the prerequisite Drawing 101 course, you’ll have almost everything! We’ll have two lessons using Conte Sketching Pencils, that’s all that’s new.

(There’s no preclass video for this class. See Drawing 101’s free preclass lesson for an overview of lots of drawing supplies.)

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Please go set up a free account at PMP and read the TOU, and poke around and get familiar with the site. (There are no discussion groups remaining there for students of this course.)

Supplies

Sketchbook

A toned sketchbook – with papers that are grey or tan – allow for using whites for highlights and black for darks, along with the paper for midtone.

1. Stillman and Birn 9×12″ toned sketchbooks Stillman & Birn Nova Sketchbooks Toned, spiral BLICK    AMZ

Drawing mediums

Regular pencils are great for some elements of class, but we’ll try pastel or charcoal pencils. Any brand is fine but a few are listed here. Conté a Paris has a selection of three colors that’ll be used in some lessons. My favorites in the charcoal pencils have a *.

1. Staedtler Mars Lumograph pencils 12 BLICK  AMZ  JACKSONS
2. Faber Castell Pitt Pastel Pencils:
   black BLICK   AMZ   JACKSONS
   *soft white BLICK  AMZ  JACKSONS
   medium white BLICK  JACKSONS
3. Conte a Paris Sketching pencils
   *black BLICK  AMZ
   white BLICK    AMZ
   *sanguine BLICK   AMZ
4. Generals Charcoal Pencils, 6B BLICK   AMZ   JACKSONS

Misc

1. Kneaded eraser Faber Castell Kneaded Eraser BLICK   AMZ   JACKSONS
2. Sharpeners:
   Afmat Long Point Pencil Sharpener BLICK AMZ https://amzn.to/3sneyfM
   Afmat Long Point Pencil Sharpener Electric AMZ https://amzn.to/3Xq4Qu3
   Dahle Chubby Pencil Sharpener BLICK  AMZ
   General’s (handheld) All-Art sharpener BLICK   AMZ   JACKSONS