SHOW ME YOUR FAVORITE TOOLS!!
Ill start! Here's my favorite 2d traditional art tools! They go everywhere with me! The test sampler on the side includes some non-favorites that were also in my bag at the time, including the pigma brush, which i do not like.
2D traditional art
To be honest, it's been a while since I've gotten most of these out.
Sketchbook. This one's a Pentalic, but anything hardcover and spiralbound, around 70 pound paper, is to my liking.
Pentel side-click .5mm mechanical pencils, black with HB lead, blue with Uni mint blue lead.
Pentel clic erasers. The blue one is ancient.
Uni Kuru Toga .5mm mechanical pencil. I generally like it but using side-clicks all through school years makes rear-clicks disproportionately annoying.
Pentel GraphGear 500 .9mm drafting pencil, with 2B lead.
Staedtler Mars Technico 2mm lead holders. The ancient one (30+ years old) is loaded with GoldGate HB, the newer one with Staedtler non-photo blue.
Pilot Juice .38, Pentel Slicci 03, Pilot Hi-Tec-C Maica 04.
2D digital art
Drawing's been basically all digital for the past year.
Acer ConceptD 7 Ezel with a Wacom One stylus. In order to use this without causing neck, back, or shoulder pain and injury, I have gradually developed...
The Stack
It looks absolutely insane, but it doesn't hurt. I can't shrimp anymore, and let's face it, I should never have shrimped before.
Photography
Full Spectrum kit
Nikon 1 V3 with Full Spectrum Conversion by Kolari, Nikon 1 V3 EVF (I debated getting the grip for a while but battery access is more important to me), and Nikon 1 18.5mm lens.
Manfrotto Xume magnetic filter adapters. They don't make these anymore and I haven't checked if others are compatible. I am TERRIFIED of dropping any.
Hoya R72 720nm IR filter, Kolari Hot Mirror, Kolari IRChrome, Kolari 590nm IR filter, Kolari UV Bandpass filter, Kolari 10-stop IRND filter. There's more, but I get the most use out of these.
Normal kit
Panasonic FZ-80 superzoom bridge.
Nikon 1 J5, Nikon 1 6.7-13mm lens. I prefer the V3 like 90% of the time but the J5 uses the same Sony 1" sensor that all of Sony's advanced compacts use. God I wish the V4 happened before Nikon killed the line.
Nikon 1 70-300mm lens.
Olympus Tough TG-Tracker action camera. Mostly used for driving timelapse.
If it isn't already obvious, I use cameras as much for "hey what's that over there" as actual deliberate attempts at art photography.
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Vanguard Veo 3+ 263AB tripod legs with Manfrotto 410 Junior geared head. Versatile. Precise. Fucking heavy.
Slik Universal U-112 tripod legs (ancient, about to break at any moment) with Vanguard ball head (taken from the Veo 3+ tripod).
Manfrotto 243 window pod with Slik Leveling Unit 2 with Manfrotto 390 RC head. For taking pictures out of a car window and looking... just comically suspicious.
Ruggard Commando Pro 65 shoulder bag, with Domke strap and FA-031 shoulder pad, original shoulder strap used as a waist strap to prevent bounce, and Mindshift Gear Nest filter case.
Golla Pro sling bag for when I have clearer objectives and don't need to bring EVERYTHING.
Impractical but hilarious
Tamron SP 500mm catadioptric lens adapted to the V3. Sub-millimetric movements to focus. Tripod required.