What material to buy to attend drawing classes?

Material is the most important element for you to practice drawing. Luckily, it is not excessively expensive.

To acquire the base material for your drawings , about ten euros is enough .

Although many teachers make some supplies available to the students, you will have to buy a pencil, eraser, pencil sharpener and a ruler.

The first drawing classes are generally devoted to learning to draw. You have to start by learning to copy reality on a blank sheet using perspective, while integrating effects such as shadow and light.

The HB pencil will be amply sufficient. It is the perfect balance between the oily pencil (B) and the dry pencil (H).

And to erase the wrong lines, you will also have to buy an eraser. Bread crumb gum can be a good solution. Allows you to blur the lines or erase them completely depending on the final finish.

Until you perfect yourself, you don’t have to decide to invest in supplies and material.

It is very difficult to buy all the necessary material for each technique. But as the classes progress, you will discover which techniques you prefer.

Thus, to continue drawing with graphite pencils, you can choose from the entire range of pencils (from 9H to 9B).

All techniques require specific material (tubes of acrylic paint, charcoal, palette, canvas …).

And to avoid having to buy too often, think about protecting this drawing material well.

The sleeves are perfect to protect the drawings and blank sheets, just as the case will serve to protect your pencils. Some wallets also allow you to order all the utensils, which are becoming more and more considerable.

And don’t forget to clean your brushes, palettes … after each use. They can soon become unusable if you don’t wash them properly (with solvent, to prevent the bristles from sticking together, for example).

In specialized stores, department stores or on the internet, you can find everything you need.