Materials for the course

Fantastic naturalistic Illustrations with color pencils

marco Mazzoni
COLOURED PENCILS GRAPHITE

for colored pencils my advice is to use faber castell polychro- for graphite I use the faber castell 9000 a lot because they are
mos, or at least to use this brand for main colors such as black very dry and allow me a perfect control of the drawing.
(schwartz black) or dark indigo blue

there are basic colors, in my opinion which are:

Prussian Blue (246)
Schwatz Black (199)Nougat (178)
Indigo Blue (157) In addition to them I recommend the A.W. Faber Manufacturer,
Crimson (134) are incredibly precise and soft and allow very deep shutters that
Red Violet (194) create a sense of incredible fullness
Carmine (126)

these faber castell polychromos, are the best because they are
very deep.
PAPER
After a few experiments, for me the best papers are the smooth
fabriano paper of at least 220 grams (like the f6)

or any page of a moleskine sketchbook (carnet de croquis).

the moleskine sketchbook has a pale yellow and extremely
smooth paper that works a lot for my type of drawing.
The variety of sizes of the various sketchbooks allows me to
extract sheets up to 40x30 cm in size for drawings on thin but
resistant paper