Saw this post ( https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62159679/ ) from  Decafbat showing and talking about art supplies they use for traditional art, so I felt like doing the same /<3<\

I'll be doing a part two where I'll give you a peer into an art bag I set up to keep other supplies in for convenience, but for the moment here's the stuff I use most regularly/have been favouring recently.

Starting on the top left is the ever-essential pencil case. This is actually a pencil case I've had since I was a teenager but it was for many years preoccupied holding old basic writing pens I'd accumulated overtime, so I gave the pens to my sister (who always has need for writing pens with her job) and ended up using it again to replace a cute shark shaped pencil case that didn't hold as much as is ideal for me, this is just right without having me carry too much out and about, and it's also a cute pencil case.

My current sketchbook next to that, I'm very much not committed to a single surface I draw on. This old Seawhite of Brighton sketchbook is just one I was given years ago and had somewhat filled in but left sitting unfinished for years. I'm making it a goal to use up the oldest sketchbooks I've had sitting around though I still have bought newer ones that offer different qualities (sturdier paper better for different things like painting or toned paper for a different surface than the usual white, plus plenty of spare standard sketchbooks). I've taken to decorating my sketchbooks with stickers recently to make them a little more personalised.

Various erasers, an old Steadler that survived my secondary school years (where I repeatedly made the mistake of letting my classmates borrow them only for them to rip them to pieces to throw at other people/me), still going strong though I cut it to smaller bits myself for more precision erasing. I recently added a kneaded eraser and it's useful but I'm not a fan of the feel of it in my hands, it's a little gross for my sensory issues but I can just about bare with it. The Tombow eraser pen is the most recent addition but has swiftly become a favourite for how useful it's been for me to tidy up those really fiddly bits my other erasers can't get to, also a great way to add highlights to pencil drawings.

I'm still figuring out a good sharpener for my liking but so far I like the Kum longpoint here for a portable solution, it can also sharpen the leads of mechanical pencils but I don't use those much yet. My actual favourite sharpener is an unseen Derwent Superpoint helical sharpener that I love using but it's not practical for taking with me on the go, great for sharpening colouring pencils which can often be a bit fragile to sharpen in a standard sharpener.

Fineliners for when I need them, I do like to use them but I need to make a point of doing so more often. I've had the Rotring ones for years after being gifted a drawing set years ago and they're still going, the Steadler's are even older but still kicking too. My favourites are actually Sakura Microns and I have a good collection of them in an unseen pen holder but I take these with me with the aim to use them up. The Rotrings are a good bit juicier with their inkflow than most may want but I do like what they add to a piece and they work well for looser doodling on their own.

I have mainly Bruynzeel pencils I was given in secondary school for art class that I ended up not using because they came in this well-presented cardboard box with a drawer so my brain interpreted them as Too Fancy for me to use until recently when I added them to my pencil case use them up, they're not my favourite but they're there so I'm using them. Steadler Tradition is my beloved and a reliable fallback but I'm trying out some others too, I've found I really like 5.6mm clutch pencils for sketching for one.

Also have these little sketching crayons that only come in brown and black that I got out of much cheaper drawing sets in craft shops, out of them they're the only things I've kept and continued using because I like working with them, but there's not really much else like them. The closest you can get otherwise is hard pastels and they're too chalky for most papers.

I have a significantly bigger collection of colouring pencils than shown here because getting back into traditional art has awakened an intense interest in art supplies and wanting to know all the things about them (blame my autism), which has meant a little more spending on them than is wise, but I tend to pick up smaller sets to test run before I do commit to full ones. The Chromaflow's here are a favourite, they're not super whittled down yet compared to other stuff and I also tend to pair them with a small tin of unseen Caran Dache Pablos but I like these a bunch, I've been sketching quite a bit with just these lately.

Can't forget the drawing board all this stuff is sitting on top of, always a helpful thing to have so I don't stain my desk mat with paint and such since I don't really have a dedicated art space outside of my room. I also frequently doodle random things on it or the scrap paper I put on it, not sure why I do that instead of containing it within the sketchbooks.