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5 types of portable sketching kits I use: watercolor, minimal, travel kit & more

Published past Nela Dunato on March 27, 2021 at 14:08 in Sketchbook, Tips for creatives, Video

Sketching on the go is my favorite pastime, and I have the perfect sketching kit for every occasion. From the lightest nigh minimal everyday kit, to the portable "studio in a pocketbook" I have when I travel, one of these five kits goes with me literally everywhere.

About 6 years ago I wrote a blog postal service What'southward in my sketching toolkit? where I've shared my favorite sketching tools at that time—information technology's interesting to see which ones had remained with me over the years.

Timestamps:
00:13 Minimal sketching kit
04:fourteen Basic sketching kit
07:02 Watercolor sketching kit
15:sixteen Report sketching kit
23:37 Travel sketching kit

The following summary contains all the materials I've mentioned in the video.

1. Minimal sketching kit

This is the kit that I take with me whenever I leave the firm. Information technology'southward small and lightweight, and then it fits in whatsoever of my pocketbook, or even in the pocket of my jacket. It consists of 1 pen, one pencil, one sketchbook.

Portable minimal sketching kit

This minimal kit is plenty to sketch and doodle something if I get bored, but even if I don't use it, I haven't wasted a lot of infinite on it, and what's even more important, weight. This kit is lighter than my wallet.

Fine art supplies I've mentioned:

Faber-Castell 0.35mm Mechanical Pencil
Pilot Metropolitan with a fine beak and Platinum Carbon Blackness waterproof ink
Pentel Pocket Kanji Fude Brush Pen
Royal Talens Art Creation 12x12 cm sketchbook
Daler Rowney soft cover A5 sketchbook

(Amazon chapter links. I'll get paid a few cents if you buy these art supplies using my link, and in that location's no extra charge to you.)

2022 update: I switched out the Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen for a vintage Pelikan 140 with a semi-flexible gold nib. I shared more info well-nigh that pen in my article on sketching with fountain pens.

Mermaid ink sketch with a brush pen
Mermay twenty-four hour period 26 – Pentel brush pen in a Talens 12x12cm sketchbook. Sketched every bit I was traveling with minimal fine art supplies.

2. Bones sketching kit

When I know I'll have time to sketch, for example I take a break in between meetings, or I'grand attending a conference where I'll be sitting all day long, I take a different sketching kit that allows me more diversity.

My all time favorite sketchbook is the Canson ArtBook Universal in A5 size which has 112 sheets (that'due south 224 pages), so these concluding me a long time, and and so far I've filled out iv of them. Because they have and then many pages I utilize them for everything: cartoon, sketching, doodling, but besides writing notes. So information technology's an all-purpose sketchbook for everyday use.

Portable sketching kit

To write with, I bring a pencil case containing an assortment of pencils and pens in my favorite colors. Currently this pencil case contains:

Faber-Castell 0.35mm Mechanical Pencil
Pilot Super Grip 0.5mm Mechanical Pencil (Blackness)
Rotring Tikky 0.5mm Mechanical Pencil (Ruddy) with Staedtler Mars Micro Color 0.5mm red atomic number 82
Kneadable eraser and a regular eraser (I don't remember the brands)
Pilot Metropolitan with a fine beak and Platinum Carbon Black waterproof ink
Pentel Pocket Kanji Fude Brush Pen
Pentel Fine art Brush Pens gray and red color
Uni-ball Signo White Gel Pen Wide
Pentel Aquash water brush

Depending on my mood, I might supplant some ink pens with a few watercolor pencils. But this is basically what I've been using for the past few years with pocket-size variations.

2022 update: As above, I switched out the Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen for a vintage Pelikan 140 with a semi-flexible gilded beak. I shared more info almost that pen in my article on sketching with fountain pens.

Tabby cat and bunny ink sketches by Nela Dunato
Fauna sketches with Pentel brush pens in a Canson Universal A5 sketchbook

three. Watercolor sketching kit

I ofttimes sketch on the embankment, in local parks, or museums. Sometimes I meet with friends and nosotros go sketching together. In that case I'll bring either my watercolor kit or my study drawing kit.

The sketchbook depends on how much weight I want to bear. If I want to proceed it low-cal, I bring a tiny 1 like this Hahnemuhle A6 sketchbook which comes both in landscape and portrait format. Before that I used the Moleskine A6 sketchbook, which was also pretty good.

Portable watercolor sketching kit

If I'm willing to bring something heavier, then it's commonly an A5 size sketchbook with watercolor paper. I don't have a favorite make, these were just the sketchbooks was able to find in local stores, and the selection is not that great where I alive. I prefer hardbound to spiral-bound considering the pages smudge less.

Fine art supplies featured in my crimson pencil case:

Faber-Castell 0.35mm Mechanical Pencil
Airplane pilot Metropolitan with a fine nib and Platinum Carbon Blackness waterproof ink
FPR Muft pen with Super5 Frankfurt Gray waterproof ink
Pentel Pocket Kanji Fude Brush Pen
Pentel Aquash h2o brush
Raphael SoftAqua 845 watercolor circular brush #20
Raphael Precision 8514 item round brush #4
Raphael Precision 8534 flat brush #12
Van Gogh 12 Pan Watercolor set + a few extra Van Gogh colors in a non-branded metal watercolor box
Microfibre cloth
Bulldog clips
Plastic water containers

Update: People go along asking me well-nigh the red 4YOU pencil case! Information technology truly is an ideal pouch for my needs, it was a lucky find in a local Muller store. I was able to find one on Amazon.de, and some German-merely stores as well, including the German Ebay. I doubt you'll find this exact pouch outside of Europe, though.

2022 update

As in kits #1 and #two, I switched out the Airplane pilot Metropolitan fountain pen for a vintage Pelikan 140 with a semi-flexible gilt bill. I shared more info virtually that pen in my article on sketching with fountain pens.

Instead of the Raphael SoftAqua 845 round brush, I now prefer a Raphael SoftAqua 805 mop/quill brush. They are made of the same synthetic textile that holds quite a bit of water, but the 805 has a sharper tip, which I similar much better.

4. Study sketching kit

This is the kit I take to the museum, or any place exterior of my home where I plan to sketch people or animals. The focus is not so much on having a variety of colors, only on ease of use on the go—something that won't crumble and get out a lot of dust on my clothes.

Portable study sketching kit

Art supplies I've mentioned in the video:

Faber-Castell 0.35mm Mechanical Pencil
Kneadable eraser and a regular eraser
Watercolor pencils in selected colors: Derwent Inktense, Koh-i-Noor Mondeluz, Conte a Paris
Conte a Paris pastel pencils
Derwent Studio colored pencils set of 12
Van Gogh sketch pencils set of 12
Kum 4 in 1 pencil sharpener
Pentel Aquash h2o brush

Sketchbooks I've shown in the video are Canson 180° ArtBook Universal in A4 size size and Hahnemühle Kraft in A5 size.

2022 update: I bought a beautiful pencil roll of Faber-Castell Polychromos, I wrote a brusk review of them here. I haven't taken them on a study sketching session yet, but they're my main pencil set up now.

5. Travel kit / Portable art studio

I take this kit with me on weekend trips or vacations when I don't take to worry about weight too much. It provides a decent rest of flexibility and portability, and it contains materials that I'm currently using most oft (this varies from fourth dimension to fourth dimension, and then what you see in the video is a snapshot at a specific point in my life).

Travel mixed media sketching kit

It contains everything from my watercolor sketching kit (run into #3 above), plus a few additional tools:

Pentel Art Brush Pens greyness and carmine color
Uni-ball Signo White Gel Pen Broad
Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils (a few selected colors)
Caran d'Ache Neocolor II pastels (a few selected colors)
White gouache paint
Plastic loyalty card (pocket palette)
Small scissors
Pasty papers
Washi tape
Masking tape
KUM four in 1 pencil sharpener
Gum stick

I usually pack 2 sketchbooks—1 watercolor sketchbook and ane "workhorse" sketchbook for pencil and ink, doodles, and writing notes.

What's in your sketching kit?

Feel gratis to share your favorite sketchbooks, art supplies, pencil cases and numberless in the comments!

I dearest learning what other folks are using in their art, especially if y'all take any clever tricks that you learned from your experience of working on the get.