If you follow my Posterous account (and honestly why wouldn’t you be?) you would have seen the Sharpie illustration/scribble of our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man the other day.  I hadn’t drawn him for a while and even though I can find his ongoing series a little tedious (I’m loving Ultimate Spider-Man though) I do enjoy drawing him!

I thought rather than just serve up the end result I might share the tools that I used to do this:

So we have a standard mechanical pencil, I think it is a 2B actually rather than a HB (I’d have to get up and confirm that, and I’m not getting up).  A standard Sharpie and fine line Sharpie.  I’m surprised how fine a line you can get out of a standard Sharpie but I got the thin line one for detail.  The brush I used is one of my Japanese waterbrushes which essentially are a brush with a reservoir of water in the barrel they seeps through the brush tip.  These waterbrushes are awesome as they make it really so simple to set up and the pack up when working in water colour.  You control how much water comes out but squeezing the barrel and they are dead easy to clean!

Finally, you can’t see it but that is actually a three tier travel water colour set which of course work out great with the waterbrush.

I’m trying to make up my mind if I will colour the Iron Man illustration I did the other day…

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