Hi guys, today I would like to talk about sketching tools and especially about four major tools like a pen, pencil, bow pen and marker. Those tools are essential part for every initial or even advanced sketching and they are all different purpose that I would like to talk about in this video. Let's start with basic pencil. As you may know, pencils have different hardness and softness. As a beginner, I suggest you to use softness, like 2B, 6B or even black color pencil from major brands. Let's see a quick test of each of them. Here I have a few of them. Let's start with basic pencil. Let's see a quick test of each of them. Start with 2B. Straight lines, hedging or texture, all these can be done with 2B to create quite gentle result. If you would like to get more distinct contrast to pop up your sketch, use softer pencil like 6B or black color pencil. Let's write them as well. Here I have my three favorite ones from Faber Castle. Soft and all day. You can see how easy to use them. By the way, with higher number of softness, you can apply different pressure to give more expression and bring some emotions to your drawings. Okay, let's move to pigment liners, markers and bopins. I like to use a stedlock pigment liner with 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7 thickness. Those are really good for preceding drawings and details. With this one, you can draw very clean and straight lines. We will like this one. Let's see what is the difference between thicknesses? Maybe it's difficult to see on my screen. Okay, here is 0.3. This one is 0.5 and 0.7. The markers are good for contours, big details, dark areas, hedging if you are working only with black and white sketchy and not using copied markers. Try different kinds of them. This is easiest too. Okay, what about bopins? Here I have a number of different kinds of bopins. This is my favorite one. I think this one is from Big Bear brand. But let's write all of them. The good thing about bopins is that you can quickly move your hand to create amazing sketches. Without worrying about right thickness or line or sharpness of the pencil, it's also great too for doodles and initial sketches. I think one of the advantages is that you can find bopins everywhere and use almost every brand. I think it's very useful to all. And it's my favorite one. So let me just try different different pens here. I just like to move my hand. Maybe to move to test different bopins. Some of them have different balls inside. So it's the angle. It's more hard to produce the clean line. This one for example not good. Okay, I think this one will be my favorite. Yeah, very soft. Soft, yeah. I really enjoy to do some sketches with this pen. Let's make some hedging here. As you can see with different pressures similar to the pencil, I can create different lines and express my sketch. I did a bit. Okay, yeah, it's a big one. Right, comfortable ergonomic. It's almost flying on my paper. You see? So I would like you to get those tools and just start to try and use them to understand differences and feel each of them try to use them. So thanks for watching my first initial video about tools. And I hope to see you for next lesson. So please watch my next video. Okay, to summarize, I would like to put here my favorite one. The bow pen, the liner 0.7, the black color pencil, also to be pencil marker as well, black thick marker. Okay, pencil, black color, pencil, liner and the marker. And the end of this video, I just want to play with those tools to show you how useful they can be. So just quick, quick to do of quick sketches. For example, this time we will sketch some sport shoes. So now I'm using my favorite bow pen. As I mentioned before, it's really good tool for sketching and doodles. It's almost like a pencil. But you can find the bow pens everywhere, so it's very practical tool. And with the black marker, I can add some contours to make it more, to make some more contrast to the big rounds like this.