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Find all your creative supplies listed below. Academy students should plan on buying all supplies marked "Essential" unless they already own something similar.

Sketch & Draw Academy Supplies

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A variety of extra soft, soft and medium charcoal along with a white charcoal.

Charcoal Pencil Set

ESSENTIAL

An amazing personal pencil sharpener for graphite or colored pencils.

Battery Operated Pencil Sharpener

ESSENTIAL

This eraser can be molded to erase tiny areas. You can press and lift instead of rubbing, and you can knead it to clean it!

Kneaded Eraser

ESSENTIAL

These are soft charcoals. You can use the tip or the side of them, so I start by teaching with these first.

Vine Charcoal (soft)

ESSENTIAL

A great way to soften your strokes.

Blending Stumps

ESSENTIAL

My favorite standard graphite pencil set.

Prismacolor Graphite Pencil Set

ESSENTIAL

A great small sketch book for warm up exercises in class or on the go!

Small Sketch Book

ESSENTIAL

A great inexpensive T-square ruler for getting perfect horizontal and vertical lines.

T-square Ruler

ESSENTIAL

A great inexpensive brush for getting eraser and pencil crumbs off your paper without smearing!

Hake Brush

ESSENTIAL

A flat smooth drawing panel. Helps you work on a tilted surface.

Drawing Board

ESSENTIAL

An inexpensive, nice white eraser. I prefer this brand but any brand will do.

White Pearl Eraser

ESSENTIAL

A retractable eraser for smaller areas.

Retractable Eraser

ESSENTIAL

A great smaller size drawing pad.

9x12 Drawing Pad (spiral)

ESSENTIAL

Smooth paper for final drawings.

Bristol Paper 9x12

ESSENTIAL

This mid-value paper is great for charcoal, colored pencil and graphite art!

Toned Paper (tan)

ESSENTIAL

You'll use these to blend your watercolor pencils.

Watercolor Brush Pen Set

ESSENTIAL

A great way to add color to your artwork.

Watercolor Pencil Set

ESSENTIAL

A great student-grade mixed media paper!

Mixed Media Book

ESSENTIAL

Three ring binder to hold handouts and charts. If you have one at home, just use that!

Three Ring Binder

ESSENTIAL

A tool to help you resize your drawing from the reference.

Proportional Divider Tool

OPTIONAL

A large 15x18 backpack style art bag.

Art Bag

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

A small pencil pouch to keep your supplies together.

Small Pencil Pouch

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

This is a great tote for teens and adults to carry a variety of art supplies. A little too large for younger kids.

Large Art Tote Bag

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

I use this case to hold my drawing pencils, charcoal pencils, verithin pencils, and a few markers! I love it!

Large Pencil Organizer Bag

GREAT GIFT IDEAS

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