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Materials

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To draw comics, we have
only pencil and paper needed.

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I recommend a hard, medium
pencil with HB or 2B lead,

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or a technical pencil.

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Some people like blue lead.

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That's fine, it gives the
end pages have a nice blue underline

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and you don't have to take out the pencils
to be erased after the inks are done

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but it's quite difficult and it
takes some time to get used to it.

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I will use a 2B pencil
for approximately 90% of all illustrations

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I'm going to do it on the
pages during this course.

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For paper I recommend Bristol card stock.

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It takes pencils and ink whole
good with little to no texture.

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It is thicker than ordinary paper,

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and therefore you can do much more
erase and the ink will not bleed through.

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For it
graduation project of this course,

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I have this template with blue
lines printed on Bristol cardstock paper.

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It gives me the
safe space to draw

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and also a printed page size.

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You can download this template from
the additional resources of this course.

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In addition to pencil and paper, the basics,
a soft white eraser is essential.

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Although I recommend you take a light one
to develop hand in drawing,

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because heavy or tense drawing
can damage your fingers and wrists.

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Often, when I say that I
drawing comics for a living,

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many people say, “I can
can't even draw a straight line,"

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to which I reply, “Me too
not, that's why I use a ruler."

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So a ruler of
hard plastic will help you.

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And then inking,
brushes and technical pens

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for the final
final artwork on our pages,

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that's what readers
will actually see.

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Inking, for having ink
we need India ink,

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which is solid black.

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White gouache, this is what I use
to erase small errors or real lines,

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or sometimes dirt or smudges on the page.

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We don't use it much
more because we have the computer,

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and that's so much easier

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but it's still convenient to be around
and if you use white gouache,

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always have one
specific brush only for white.

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And a bigger brush for that
areas of solid black and shadow.

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Brushes give you a line
that varies through thick and thin,

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whereas technical pens

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will be a solid,
have a regular, non-variable line

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that doesn't matter thick or thin,

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but it's great for precise
details and man-made objects.

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Now you have seen the materials that
I use to draw my pages,

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in the next lesson we will
look at the basic elements

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of a comic book page.