Research Task 3.0: Building a tool Kit

For this task of building a tool kit to take out with me as I go sketching I have decided to make a couple of different ones.

I am taking part in Inktober this year and have come up with my own prompt list and so I decided to make a simple kit for this so it's easy for me to do every day.

For this I chose a selection of Autumnal Promarkers, which are alcohol based because I want to practice using them a lot more. With a limited colour palette it helps reduce the amount of decisions I need to make to complete an illustration and it also challenges me in how to use the colours together to get the look I want.

I have also included an eraser and a mechanical graphite pencil. For this challenge I am using my favourite type of sketchbook, the Strathmore mixed media A5 softcover. It's so portable and can take any media. The paper is gorgeous.

For my second kit which I will use for people sketching will be simple and lightweight. I decided to try out a watercolour pencil in dark blue so I have the flexibility of doing washes and line work which was inspired by Lynne Chapman in her people sketching book. Chapman, L. (2016). Sketching people. Search Press Ltd. and a water brush to create the washes.
I'm also taking a Micro pen in black sized 08 to get nice thick definite lines and a graphite mechanical pencil to get more definition.

My alternate kit is for using watercolours on the go and contains my own watercolour palette, water brush, a few microns, graphite pencil, eraser, pencil sharpener, a uni-ball gel grip black pen and a light phthalo blue and a dark phthalo blue Faber Castell Polychromos pencils.

Close up of my home made watercolour palette, which is a selection of my fav colours from the White Nights palette and a Hobein pan.

I expect my tool kit will change over time as I learn more about  my supplies and what works for me when out sketching.

As far as what I'll do if someone catches me drawing them, I will be polite but very embarrassed. I do take ear buds and my phone so it makes it look like I'm busy doing something else, so hopefully that will work at least while I am so nervous about sketching people in public because I've not done it before.