Alright so there's these books called Adult Coloring Books. And you impulsively bought one, but now you are unsure on what to use to color it in with.
Okay well that might not be you, yet I'm asked ever so often "what do you use to color your art?" I can always rattle off what I use, but there is so much you can use. Since I did a review on some coloring pages, I thought I would go through with my own adult coloring book and review the utensils that I have. And to start off I put together a list of almost everything you can use to color with. I know the title says pens and pencils, but I thought we better start of with the classic coloring utensil first.
Crayons: Who hasn't colored with these as a kid? I've found out that with a new crayon you can do some form of shading, however they're a little blotchy overall.
Twistables: This is a type of crayon created by Crayola for older kids and adults as a more sophisticated crayon, something in between a regular crayon and a color pencil. Other companies have versions of the twistables too.
Color Pencils: My preferred utensil for coloring. Color pencils are versatile for both fine detail (not super fine) and large areas. Shading is easy with two different ways to do it, darkening a single color or blending various hues of a color. Blending two color together is easy depending on the hardness of the lead and what you are using to blend with. And outside of erasable ones, color pencils can be erased to a point, this can be helpful in doing more complex highlighting. There are a number of colors, including neon and metallic color pencils.
Woodless: You can get woodless ones that are just the colored graphite.
Twistables: Along with twistable crayons, Crayola has twistable color pencils, or their version of woodless.
Watercolor Pencils: These are special color pencils designed to mimic the effects of watercolor paint. Watercolor pencils can be used like a regular color pencil however they do tend to smear. there are a few different ways to use the watercolor effect: you can apply water with a brush to float the color on the paper turning it into a watercolor painting, you can also wet the pencil first and apply it wet, or even touch a wet brush to the tip and paint like normal watercolor paint. Using the watercolor effect does require heavier paper because lightweight paper will wrinkle up and some inks can run when wet.
Drawing Pencils: These are the pencils designed for drawing or drafting. Everyone has used one of these in the form of a #2 pencil, which happens to be the middle range drawing pencil more commonly known as a HB pencil. Drawing pencils come in two types H (hard) and B (black). The range of drawing pencils is 9H-9B though most artist star somewhat in the middle of the range (I personally have a liking for a range of HB-8B). Normally, for coloring, or rather shading, you would want to stay more with B pencils since they are darker and easier to blend with. Blending can be done with fingers, blending stumps, cloth, and tissue.
Woodless: Just like coloring pencils, you can find woodless versions of drawing pencils that are just graphite.
Ball Point Pens: These are the everyday pens, which do come in a variety of colors. They can be ultimately used to color with however I don't recommend coloring much more that small fine details with them or outlining.
Gel Pens: Ah, the art supply to collect back in the 90's. So these unique devices have a ball point, like a regular pen, with non-toxic, ecofriendly gel ink. The ink is permanent on paper and washes off of skin. They may or may not wash out of clothing. Gel Pens give an even coverage, vibrant color, smoothness, and don't bleed through the paper. However the ink applies fairly wet, so it takes longer to dry, and makes it susceptible to smudging. These pens have become greatly available again due to the use of them in scrapbooking, so there's a large amount of variation to pick from including: neon, pearl, glitter, metallic, and glow in the dark.
Marker Pens: Okay these are a unique combination of a marker and a pen. These can often cover permanent markers, highlighters, and bush markers. I usually use this term for illustration markers, or pens. Marker Pens are usually fin tip, but can be chisel or bush tip. Tip sizes are usually measured in millimeters, from 0.05 to 0.8. They can come in a variety of colors, and work well for small details and outlining. I usually use a black 0.1 or 0.3 pen for inking my drawings.
Alright that's enough for tonight, next up is markers and chalk-like medias.
-Till then, FoxCat ya later.
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