Pencil Cases

Over the past few days I've been doing some sketching, and with each thing I realized I needed more to draw than I thought. Which is totally a personal thing, you can really draw with whatever you like. However, I like to draw with a number 2 mechanical pencil or those funny pencils you got as a child where each little piece of led was connected to a piece of plastic and you had to push it through. Yes, I actually really love drawing with those and they're about a dollar for four of them at Micheal's. I've made a little pencil case full of the things that I find necessary.

• Pencils (I have five ready to go, but make sure I only use one)
• Eraser (I use a tri tip one)
• Prismacolor fine line marker (I have a set of six), I love using these when I'm just going a black and white sketch to give things a little bit more of a finished look.
•  Sharpie Marker
• Pencil sharpener (for some reason I have two)

I think it's good every once in a while to clean out your pencil case/bag because I know mine tends to end up with pencil shavings and other nasty, dirty stuff in the bottom that makes my eraser all gross. Also, I like to have a small set of colored pencils that are on the cheaper side just to play around with. The one's I've been using aren't called anything special, I think they're either from the dollar section of Micheal's or the dollar store. But either way they work surprisingly well, they don't mix quite as well as I would like but I don't want to use up my entire collection of Prismacolors on something that I might not even end up liking let alone framing or giving away.

Everything that I've been using is all stuff I either already had or stuff from the dollar store/dollar section of craft store. I don't believe it's really that necessary to go out and buy brand new expensive things when you're just "learning". And I use quotation marks because this is more of a relearning process as apposed to someone who has never drawn before. If you haven't drawn before, I'm sorry if I'm going too fast or saying things that you don't understand yet, but you'll get there in no time.

To everyone else, good luck. And just have fun with it. Don't stress out about having certain things, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. You don't even need a sketchbook, although, I think it's nice to have all your drawings in one place. That's what my mom would always tell me, keep your drawings in one place. She got me in the habit of keeping a sketchbook when I was about six of seven. So as you can imagine, I have a  ton of filled sketchbooks laying around. Well, now I'm rambling.

Don't stress people, just have fun, draw, relax.