Manga style cartooning and art supplies recommendations for kids
Started a 7-lessons Manga Workshop today with a group of Middle School students ages 13 to 14. I asked them to draw these sample sketches to have a benchmark to compare against the drawings that they will be doing by the end of the Manga cartooning course.
Pentel 0.7 mm Mechanical pencils were used to draw all of these sketches.
Update 05-11-09: We had a handful of students added by the second lesson of the Cartooning class, so these are their baseline drawings plus a couple of misfiled doodles by members of the original group.
1. Minimal Starter kit: handful of copy paper sheets and pen or pencil is all that’s needed to start doodling. A clipboard is handy for support and keeping sketches neatly together. A 0.5 mm mechanical pencil would be a good choice since it doesn’t require sharpening and often features a small eraser .
2. Compact Take-anywhere kit: a small 3½" × 5½" Moleskine-type sketchbook, a mechanical pencil, and a nice black gel pen can easily fit in a jacket pocket for sketching anywhere.
3. Regular field kit: a small shoulder bag loaded with a 7" × 10"-9" × 12" double wire bound Canson Field Sketchbook, a mechanical pencil, a couple of Faber-Castell Pitt Artist pens, a waterbrush, and a small watercolor crayons set can cover most situations on a moment’s notice.
4. Portable Studio: keep all options open in a messenger bag or backpack loaded with a large 9" × 12" or 11" × 14" mixed media sketchbook, favorite mechanical pencil or handful of drawing pencils, Pilot Foam eraser, set of pigment liners, pan watercolor set, waterbrush, and anything else you care to carry.
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