Pencil drawing:
The pencil is the simplest drawing tool, while offering a very wide range of possibilities, depending on the type of lead, its sharpening, the grain of the paper and the possible techniques, from the simple outline to the nuances of gradients obtained by hatching, rubbing, shading. It can be easily erased with an eraser. A pencil drawing (or penciled drawing) is almost always the basis of a drawing made later with different means, such as ink with a pen or a brush: once the inking is dry, the preliminary pencil drawing can be erased.

Charcoal drawing:
More than the pencil, the black stone, Sanguine, charcoal lends itself to flat and the rendering of the model. It has the disadvantage of being very fragile, unless it is fixed by a lacquer generally applied with a sprayer.

Pen drawing:
The feather has been an instrument for drawing as much as for writing, at least since Renaissance. It is used as much for field sketching, for which it has the advantage of producing a fast and contrasting drawing, solid as soon as the ink has dried, as for elaborate projects, in which the hatching indicates the values. It produces a fine or fat line depending on the pressure exerted.
The feather was the main instrument for inking comics until the 1970s.

Brush drawing:
The brush is the staple drawing tool in the Far East, but it is widely used in the West as well. Its flexibility allows the designer to make very fine hairlines and flat areas that are impossible to reproduce with other techniques such as plume.
The brush is often the tool of choice for inking comics. It is widely used by artists of very different styles, like Andre Franquin, known for his expressive and nervous trait, or Milton Canif who played on the contrasts of black and white.

Ballpoint pen drawing:
Often practiced at the beginning by the youngest on the margins of school notebooks, drawing in ballpoint pen can be a real art. From a simple sketch to capture movement to precise illustration and architectural drawing, the ballpoint pen, like traditional tools, adapts to all genres.

Marker drawing:
The felt-tip pens, markers or markers, are available in very wide ranges of colors and line thicknesses. Professional ranges allow you to create your own shades from liquid inks and various solvents. They found specific application in the layout ou rough used in advertising to simulate photographs to be made later. We use a special paper, grain-free and semi-transparent, which does not diffuse solvents and allows to work by transparency. Specialists or "roughmen" can achieve results of pictorial quality.

Source: Extract from articles Wikipedia.

Fold back