Basic EquipmentIntroductionThe equipment requirements to draw cartoons, cartoon strips, caricatures,and animation is similar. Most of this is standard equipment found in Navydrafting or graphics shops.EquipmentThe cartoonist’s equipment is simple and each illustrator may have his or herown favorite tools. The following basic list does not include all theequipment you may prefer. Be flexible in your selection of tools andexperiment with different products.DRAWING BOARD:A drawing board (18-by-24 inches) small enough totilt or turn will permit you to work on your cartoons at any angle.T-SQUARE: Use a t-square in the layout of the cartoon.TRIANGLE: Use triangles to draw vertical lines.MASKING TAPE: A small roll of masking tape (approximately 1/4 inchwide) will hold paper to the drawing board securely.RULER: Rulers help maintain straight lines and you may use them to guidebrush strokes.INK: Use black, waterproof ink, particularly if you are reproducing thecartoon.OPAQUE WHITE: Opaque white covers inking errors.PENCILS: Select sky blue pencils for drawing nonreproducible guidelines,general sketching, and layout. Very soft, dense black pencils blacken thereverse of images for transfer to another substrate. Dense, black-leadedpencils also create graded and halftone effects on rough surfaced papers.Choose brick red pencils for making notes to the printer on overlays.ERASERS: For areas that are difficult to erase, use hard rubber erasers.Soft erasers work well for general-purpose work and art gum or kneadederasers highlight and perform final clean-up chores.Continued on next page4-15
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