Thursday, June 3, 2010

sketching gear

Lapin’s secret material.

In this post, I tell you all the secrets of my favourite material I carry all the time in my pocket. 
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First of all, my pencils, brushes and watercolour are all together in a vintage “Texas Instrument” case, and I will not exchange it for any other one. It’s the perfect size, and with a snap hook, I put it on my coat, or at my belt. So I have all my stuff ready to use and easy to access to.
The 2 hair clips (that I stole from Lapinette) are very useful to maintain the notebook open when it’s windy.

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The inkpen is my principal tool. I start all the time my sketches with the lines, and the “Uni Pin fine line 0,1mm” fits my taste. It’s waterproof and the black ink is very dark, I love it.
I also carry 2 colours inkpen “Edding 1800 0,1mm” to copy logotypes or typography.

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My watercolour box is a very compact one. It’s a special travel box, made by “Daler-Rowney, England” with 18 fine arts quarter pans. I fill the brush space with some additive colours, as some transparent red, a very cool green, and gold watercolour.
If I had to choose 3 colours, my favourite are the yellow ocre, the alizarin crimson and the russian blue. I sketch figures only with those 3.
I've only used a “Pentel” water brush for a short time, but I’m already addicted to it. I always carry 2 of them full of water, to get enough autonomy for the day, and a third one fill of yellow ochre liquid watercolour to have a bright and luminous yellow (most of the watercolour yellow pans are opaque).

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Now it’s time to reveal that I also use a few secret weapons, as this 2 multicolour pens. The big one is a child gadget to raise my watercolour sometimes. The second is more “serious”, it comes from “Muji” in Tokyo, and it’s precise enough to sketch directly with it.
And while I can’t sketch with my usual technique (by night, or when the model has too much contrast), I paint with this black brush (also from Muji).
I must confess that I have brought back a full bag of pens and art supplies from Japan, and that my favourite material may change in the next months… I already adopted a family of “lapin’s stamps”!

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Related to my sketchbooks, I have all the time in the pocket a small Moleskine (9x14cm, 192 pages) to sketch in the subway, at a terrace, anywhere… and for some more elaborates sketches, I use some old notebooks I find at a flea market. I especially like the lined paper and the amazing quality of it. I start yesterday my sketcbook number 119… my library is full of them ;)

What sketching tools do you carry?

22 comments:

  1. Wonderfully informative, thank you for sharing and looking forward to sketching with you in Portland.

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  2. Some lovely secrets revealed here! I may have to borrow a few of these rabbit's tricks.

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  3. Very enjoyable and interesting to read about your sketching tools.

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  4. This is great!

    I can't wait to see them in Portland being used in action (especially the big multicolour pen that I've never seen before)

    Thanks for sharing

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  5. Is it possible to get more excited? Yes. After reading this post I am even MORE excited to meet Lapin and all the other folks coming to the symposium!

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  6. lovely to see the tools that bring us the beautiful drawings from Lapin's hands :)

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  7. I love that you have distilled your supplies to such a compact case. I struggle with too many supplies..I hate to leave anything at home!!!!

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  8. Thanks for letting us know Lapin’s secret materials! These drawings are so
    lovely and the info is so inspiring!

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  9. wow how wonderful you chose to sketch the whole thing.

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  10. Thats a secret of lapin! :)
    What about a bag?

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  11. Very helpful, Lapin--and I love your illustrations as always.

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  12. I love the sketches of your gear as well as your tools themselves. I now regret not getting those multi-color pens from Muji when I was in Tokyo last year...next time!

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  13. I carry in my bag books with me almost constantly, because I read a lot in transport and at lunch at work.


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