02: What’s in my graphite toolkit?

Mike recovers from an injury, finds his creative type is that of “thinker” and signs up for the Adobe Photoshop for iOS beta. He also goes through everything in his graphite toolkit from paper to pencil and all the accessories in between dropping a few t

Episode 2 of the Drawing Inspiration podcast, hosted by Mike Hendley, titled "02: What’s in my graphite toolkit?" was published on May 20, 2019.

May 20, 2019 · Drawing Inspiration

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Mike recovers from an injury, finds his creative type is that of “thinker” and signs up for the Adobe Photoshop for iOS beta. He also goes through everything in his graphite toolkit from paper to pencil and all the accessories in between dropping a few tips along the way. As always, a little homework at the end :-) ===== LINKS FROM THE SHOW ===== Rocky Harbour (digital work in progress) Urban sketching(Wikipedia) Make Do Podcast (Julia Skott and Tiff Arment) My Creative Type (Adobe) Strathmore Bristol Smooth Drawing board Staedtler/Nova 2 mm mechanical Pentel Graphgear 1000 .3 mm mechanical Staedtler Mars Lumograph black Blue tack Blending stump Spray Fixative ===== How to reach Mike ===== MikeHendley.com Show notes at DrawingInspiration.fm Instagram @Mike_Hendley Twitter @MikeHendley Podcast theme music is “Acid Jazz” By Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Episode Description

Mike recovers from an injury, finds his creative type is that of “thinker” and signs up for the Adobe Photoshop for iOS beta. He also goes through everything in his graphite toolkit from paper to pencil and all the accessories in between dropping a few tips along the way. As always, a little homework at the end :-)

===== LINKS FROM THE SHOW =====

Rocky Harbour (digital work in progress)

Urban sketching(Wikipedia)

Make Do Podcast (Julia Skott and Tiff Arment)

My Creative Type (Adobe)

Strathmore Bristol Smooth

Staedtler/Nova 2 mm mechanical

Pentel Graphgear 1000 .3 mm mechanical

Staedtler Mars Lumograph black

===== How to reach Mike =====

MikeHendley.com Show notes at DrawingInspiration.fm Instagram @Mike_Hendley Twitter @MikeHendley

Podcast theme music is “Acid Jazz” By Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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