Question: Indispensable art supplies

[mekare]

So, I'm moving this month and have started packing things. That led me to the question which indispensable art supplies to put aside for easy retrieval and which ones I could probably do without for some time until I get to the box.
So far these made it into my list (because I still have art to do for a challenge and also need stuff for spontaneous inspiration):

• H pencil


• my watercolour sketchbook


• two brushes, one medium, one very thin for detailing


• my palette of watercolours (I think I have 16 colours in there)

I think might get by for a month or two with these if I had to (I'm hoping to get unpacking done earlier, but you never know).

What about you? Say, if you had to choose 4-5 (including paper) which would those be?

Comments

[writedragon]

I'm a mixed-media artist, not a painter like you, so my list would be a bit different from yours, and a bit longer, but still quite manageable.

A set of colored pencils (12-24)
one .7 mechanical pencil with extra leads inside
one white gel pen, one black permanent ink pen, and one black Pitt India ink brush pen for outlining, crosshatching, and highlights
a set of watercolor pencils and a water brush (or a small set of acrylics)
dual sharpener
Staedler white rubber eraser
two paintbrushes (one flat acrylic with a straight edge -- small to medium, one scruffy boar bristle for scumbling)
a gold Sakura gel pen for accents
permanent glue stick or two
small pair of scissors
mixed media paper pad

All of this fits into a pouch about the size of a laptop and is surprisingly portable, especially if you organize the supplies into smaller fabric pencil cases with zippers.

[mekare]

How could I forget the sharpener? :-D I do use gel pens, and gold pens in some pieces but I thought I could probably do without them for some time.
Are you doing the aerial creature challenge? I‘d be very interested in what you come up with.

[writedragon]

I'm not currently doing any drawing challenges, as I've been preoccupied with the due South/C6D Big Bang and writing some fanfic, and dealing with life. I'm lurking on that comm though, and will be interested to see what other folks do. I hope to do a drawing challenge sometime -- I do Inktober every year (3 or 4 years running now), so there's that.

Good luck with your move --

[mekare]

YAY DSC6Dbang! I ma so looking forward to claiming!

[hamimi_fk]

I'm unlurking just to answer this, lol.

I'm a (financially) poor traditional artist so my necessities are few and simple.

- 2B pencil
- Knead eraser
- Sharpener
- Black fine felt pen
- Whatever sketchbook I am currently using (lately there's been a lot of 99 cents ones, ugh)

In fairness, I keep all my art supplies except my sketchbook, in a portable "lockbox" (well it is, I suppose, as it came with a key but I've never used it, lol, but since I got it at CVS I'm unsure of it's reliability).

[mekare]

Yay unlurking! I forgot to include an eraser in my post, duh. Such an important tool!

[juzo_kun]

Hmm, let's see...

watercolour palette (the usual W&N Cotman, but I changed some of the colours)
2 brushes, small and large (the ones with the water tank)
a tiny bottle with water (to have clear wather to put on the watercolours)
drafting pencil 0.7
Pitt oil base pencil
4 Polychromos (indigo, burnt siena, violet and dark brown)
fineliner 0.05, 0.1, 0.2
brush pen (but I still can't use it decently)
white gel pen
ballpoint pen (black)
erasable colour pencil (blue, light blue, red)
pencil sharpener
pen-like eraser
kneaded eraser
a small ruler
a victorinox multitool
small folded paper towel

handmade sketchbook (nothing fancy, I just buy the paper I like in big sheets then I cut these either B5 format or square 21x21 cm, just following my spur of the moment)

...that's more a brick than a case, I think.

[mekare]

Oh interesting! What do you use the multitool for? Do you do collages?

[juzo_kun]

Nothing art related... I'm just used to carry a multitool everywhere!