What are the best art supplies to use when trying to make a lifelike portrait?
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That really depends on what you like using. I would work with pastels, or oil paints. You should be warned however, that making a realisic picture with pastels is quite hard and requires a fair amount of experience of the medium before making a portrait.
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i did a great potrait once using just coloured pencils, I did one side of the face using only one colour (as you would with a lead pencil) and the other side in rainbow colours.
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I'll give you a basic shopping list here. Avoid 'student grade' art supplies. Going ahead and buying quality supplies will pay off. Staedtler drafting eraser (white) DeSign Kneaded Rubber eraser Pentel Click eraser Strathmore Bristol Smooth Paper (400 series) Paper totillions Chamois for blending(will be in the art supply section) A good quality pencil sharpener (doesn't have to be electric) A good clear plastic ruler A circle template (Staedtler makes good ones) An Ellipses template (also Staedtler if you can find it) Tombow Mono Homograph pencils in a range from 2H to 6B (I think the greatest pencils are the Tombow Mono Homograph pencils. They're animation pencils.) I get asked this a lot because I am a pencil artist, so I have made a page that talks about all the supplies I really love: http://tinyurl.com/gx5ga I'm not spamming you though, so don't go there unless you just want a bit more information. I hope this helps! Happy drawing!
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I believe the entire concept of liquid lead art is far superior to any other in relation to portraiture, and though i do not know exact supplies needed to create the same, i believe you will find relevant information here: http://www.liquidlead-art.com/# ~ The image i add here is not a photograph. It was created by Bart Webster, inventor of liquid lead art.
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Someone who has vision could make great art with cow poo if that was all that was available.
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The masters sketched in charcoal and then usually painted in Oils. It really depends on the medium that is best for your understanding of symmetry and the art of vectoring space and use of light and your understanding of human anatomy too. All of the masters studied these things for years before painting anything worthwhile If watercolors work best to help you express yourself then use them? If chalk or pastel then use them. I agree with the comment below, if you are a "great" artist, you can use anything... But the masters almost always used oils as a medium in accordance with all of the above mentioned factors...
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