1 – BEST DRAWING PAPER FOR GESTURE, SKETCHING AND REALISTIC PENCIL DRAWING

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Welcome to episode one of the So Free Art Podcast, which is the first of four lil episodes I’m doing, looking at some of my traditional pencil drawing recommended art tools.

Episode one covers DRAWING PAPER, my best drawing paper for: 

  • gesture drawing,
  • figure drawing,
  • sketching.
  • and realistic pencil drawing.

LINKS
Croquis Cafe – Life Drawing YouTube Channel

QuickPoses – Gesture Drawing Site
How to Draw Lifelike Portraits from Photographs, by Lee Hammond
A Brief Overview of Gesture Drawing

PAPER
Recommended Art Tools Page

Winsor & Newton Extra Smooth Surface A4 Drawing Pad (Amazon)
Heavy-Weight Wire-O Winsor & Newton A6 Sketch book (Amazon)
cute lil pink A6 sketchbooks I mentioned for 75p :) (The Range)

” WE MUST LET GO OF THE LIFE WE HAVE PLANNED, SO AS TO EXCEPT THE ONE THAT IS WAITING FOR US “

Joseph Campbell