Drawing Materials & Tools

For Pencil/Charcoal effects:
  • Stabillo pencil (Black)
  • 6B Graphite Pencil 
  • Staetdler Omnichrom pencil
  • Aquarellable pencil (water-soluable)
  • Supracolor pencil (water-soluable)
  • Litho pencil/crayon
  • China markers
  • Lithocoal
  • For Solid effects:
  • Opaquing Pen
  • Acrylic Markers/pens (Krink)
  • Rubylith film or Amberlith film
  • Sticky dots
  • Sharpie oil based Paint markers
For Painterly effects:
  • Lascaux Tusche
  • Xerox toner & gum Arabic
  • Xerox toner & Isophropal alcohol 
  • Acrylic paint or Liquid Acrylic paint
  • Spray paint
  • Sand mylar with sandpaper to get textural effects.
For Photographic images:
  • Laser print transparency
  • Inkjet transparency
  • Oiled newsprint transparency
  • Xerox  transparency
  • Press on letters

Drawing materials effects/samples

  • Micron pens work well. (Pigment based markers are better than dye based.)

Direct Drawing / Stage Process Prints

The following samples demonstrate various approaches to doing color separations for your print.

Key Image Technique samples / Breaking down the print by layers.