Which materials?

To the question “What materials do I need?” my short answer is: use whatever you already have at home! You don’t need to use exactly the same materials as I do. It’s lovely if you’d like to join in with the same brush pens, but it’s certainly not required.

The colour chart helps you to create your own colour combinations with your favourite materials such as brush pens, coloured pencils, alcohol markers and/or watercolours. (The numbers on the chart refer to the colour codes of the Tombow ABT brush pens.)

Would you still like to work with the same materials I use? You’ll find my full list below:

Sketch and draw

• white mixed media or smooth watercolour paper, A6 size, 200 gsm or thicker
• (mechanical) pencil, HB or H (e.g. Tombow MONO graph 0.5)
• soft eraser (e.g. Tombow MONO XS)
• waterproof black fude brush pen (e.g. Tombow WS-BS) or fineliner 03
• waterproof black fineliner 01 (e.g. Sakura micron)

Colouring

• water-based brush pens (e.g. Tombow ABT brush pens)
• white (gel)pen (e.g. Sakura Gelly Roll 10)
• watercolour brushes no. 1 and 2 (e.g. Raphael Precision imitation sable)