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MadSamoan · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 1:14 pm

It looks like he's using charcoal pencils on toned paper like Canson and using a white chalk pastel pencil for highlights. Toned paper can get pretty expensive, but a good inexpensive substitute is brown wrapping paper that you use for mailing packages. It has a real nice tooth to it for charcoal or pastel and you can also use black ball point pen in combination with white pastel and get a similar look.

plastikman · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 6:52 pm

its either charcoal or pastel on a brownish colored pastel paper

Blind · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 8:01 pm

Thanks fellas... looks like I'm heading to Pearl Paint tomorrow to have a sniff around and see what I can get.

Socar J. MYLES · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 8:54 pm

Conte crayons are nice for this kind of sketching too--I use them all the time. But you have to wear gloves, or they'll touch your fingers and black them up. Yuck.

Markus · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 9:57 pm

Conte is great. But unless I'm drawing large I've switched to the conte pencil versions to keep things cleaner. IMHO, KChen's stuff looks like it could be prismacolor (black 935) and white on Canson paper rather than charcoal or carbon; but since he's scanned it...hard to tell -- great sketch method tho'

BTW, Check out the Conte "Carbone" series of carbon drawing pencils or the Conte Pierre Noire 1710's too, they will definitely give you this look.
But I'm sure everyone will have a different opinion. Good luck and happy hunting.

[ September 06, 2002: Message edited by: Markus ]

Blind · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 11:46 pm

For those of you who do regular sketching: Do you have any recommendations on materials? I just saw some really nice sketches over at CA that are beautifully done on a medium tone paper with what looks like charcoal and something white for highlights. Go here to check them out.

I've seen similar sketching done here too. Do any of you guys have recommendations on papers or pencils? So far I'm just using regular Derwents (HB & 4B) on a white Aquabee pad. I'm a little bored with it. I'm thinking I could spend less time toning the paper if I start with a medium toned paper to begin with. Does that sound right? And, what do you use for highlighting? Just some kind of white pencil?

[ September 06, 2002: Message edited by: Blind ]

Blind · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 6:32 am

Well, I just got the last two replies today, but I went to Pearl Paint yesterday... figures >8)

I did see the Conte crayons, but I figured that wasn't it. I snagged some Generals's compressed white charcoals and pencils. I also got some BienFang paper, assorted warm colors. Nice... I was trying to find a brand that had only one color instead of assorted. It seems Borden & Riley makes pads all one color but they only had huge sizes yesterday, so I stuck with the BienFang. The place was cleaned out from some back to school sale they were having. I've never seen the joint jammed with so many college kids.

I also snagged a few Cretacolor Monolith woodless pencils that looked kinda neat. Anyone ever use them?

Blind · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2002 6:44 am

BTW, I received a reply from Ken on his materials for those Gargoyle sketches. He's using Prismacolors.

quote:
Hey Blind,
Thanks. For the sketches, I used Prisma color Black for the drawing and Prisma White for the highlight (Charcoal was a bit too messy for small sketch). I used the prisma on it's side, very similar to the same way I figure draw. I gives me the most variety of line width and texture.