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Mmm pencils

DelusionalAngel — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:26:21 +0000

My mommy person bought me these awhile ago:

She bought them because you can use them on fabric, then seal them in. Her quilting art list folk love them.

I figured I’d start with testing them out on paper. But I don’t even like wasting my cheaper colored pencils. And I’m such an art n00b that I’m trying to decide what to do with them. Another cartoon’y girl… or try to practice and branch out into something new. In the mean time, they’re sitting in their pretty tin staring me in the face like “Hi, gonna use us yet?”. Argh. Need inspiration.

The gift of art

DelusionalAngel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:54:49 +0000

A care package arrived from my mommy person today, included was stuff I could post here!

A Watercolour sketch kit:

And some scratchart stuff:

Along with some non art related stuff like angels (sadly a snowglobe shattered in transit), some f00d, Superman and Batman pens (they each fly around the top of their pen), etc. Mom rocks. Though ask me if she still rocks when Brian gets his stuff — which make noise.

Art Shopping – good and bad

DelusionalAngel — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:55:04 +0000

So for the first time in awhile we went to Dick Blick = good.

We got there right before they closed = bad.

I did manage to grab a Staedtler Mars Plastic Eraser , a pad of Borden & Riley Paris Bleedproof Paper For Pens, an Itoya Art Profolio, and Prismacolor Art Stix (err imagine a pastel stick but made out of colour pencil).

And then bad = closing time. I wanted to get some new pens and stuff, but I’ll just have to order those online.

Bad Dick Blick

DelusionalAngel — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:41:16 +0000

DickBlick is having a big clearance sale. They’re mean. They’re making me drool

Prismacolor Colored Pencil Sets Special Offer
If I could think of anyway to justify $80 on my credit card right now, I’d click buy. I’m soooo tempted. I have crappy crappy coloured pencils… so… tempted… stop me… want… to… click…now… 120 colour pencils + 12 piece sketch set + verithin colour pencils = *drool*

Seriously come break my fingers, I’m very very tempted. Ok no! Don’t come break my fingers, my three day headache is enough pain so I won’t… Argh bad bad bad them tempting me! If I hadn’t already used my PayPal money to buy *gasp* an art book, I’d so justify this much easier. But I had to get the book!

They also some good deals on papers and some paints and framing stuff, etc for my artistic friends with money! The clearance section on their site: Dick Blick Art Materials
is EVIL. Most of their site is, but especially clearance *nods*

She’s Super

DelusionalAngel — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:04:07 +0000

Almost didn’t sleep at all today, brain aliens so bad. Did *cough* nap from 4-9 (when Brian woke me up). Well I was in bed all day and my laptop is sort of used as a desktop machine so it’s not practical to move it around. That meant I couldn’t work on Misi’s painting. But I had to attempt to redeem myself for the bad video ArtLog Or at least sketch to keep myself busy, here is the result:

She's Super - Sketch

This is the sketched version. But I didn’t stop there… Oh… no…

She's Super Pen

I decided she’d look better with a dark pen outline than she looked as a sketch. But alas, I couldn’t stop there either, nope! I did mention I couldn’t sleep right? For some reason she told me she wanted a Superman colour scheme and though some of my pens are dying, I pulled it off I think…

She's Super - Coloured

And with that, she is done. Well, mostly. I didn’t think ahead as I DID NOT plan to colour her. So her eyebrows left me a bit stuck. They look a little out of place and the blue background came out a little wrong, but otherwise I like her AND Brian likes her so I think I’m happy *nods* I was going for a comic book look though I can’t shade at all especially with pens and a very limited collection of them. Anyway because she wanted Superman’s colour scheme, she’s called “She’s Super”.

Materials used:
Staedtler Triplus Fineliner Pens. I could go through these so fast, I love them, feel free to send me a few dozen cases of them.

Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens. I have a few sets of these. In this case the Black superfine for the outline and a blue from landscape set for the blue background.

Her skin is coloured with Crayola Multicultural Colored Pencils . Yeah that’s right CRAYOLA. Did you think I can afford GOOD coloured pencils? Have you seen what they cost? I think I have erm 2 ok ones, the rest are from a cheap set you’d buy your kids, if you have kids. But these are for a reason. I’m horrible at picking pencils for skin tones. So I figured I’d give these a shot as even Brian had a hmm moment when helping me pick a ok individual one for skin. And I LOVE these so shush.

And of course to start it all out Staedtler Lumograph Drawing and Sketching Pencils. I’ve got some pencils that came with an art set mom got me for Christmas, they suck. Just closing the sketch pad and storing it can at times make it smear. So I had to buy these, and I love them. Why are all of the good pens and pencils from Germany?

Ohh and of course… Blick Drawing Pads. Because Dick Blick rocks and is cheap, despite having a name that always makes Brian turn into Beavis and/or Butthead…