DRAWING SUPPLIES
Staedtler 925 35 Mechanical Pencil
Precise, stable, lightweight, and incredibly well-made. Justin’s #1 top-rated mechanical pencil from his 2019 mechanical pencil review.
General’s Graphite Pencil Kit
The workhorse of most of Justin’s drawings. This set offers pencils in 2H, HB, 2B and an amazing layout pencil that is around a 6B in darkness.
Mechanical Eraser Stick
An excellent time-saving eraser for cleaning up and adding sharp highlights to drawings. Holds an excellent point for carving really sharp details!
Strathmore Smooth Bristol Paper
Carl Angel-5 Pencil Sharpener
An absolutely incredible mechanical sharpener! Easy to clean, highly stable, and creates a needle sharp point on lead pencils.
Uni Kuru Toga Mechanical Pencil
Annie's favorite mechanical pencil for Drawing. Offers a unique automatic rotating mechanism that keeps the point super fine!
Col-Eraser Grey Pencil
Annie’s favorite pencil for sketching! Offers amazing shading and easy erasing for carving out highlights.
Kneaded Eraser
Nothing fancy here, just a basic multi-purpose eraser for cleaning up drawings before scanning them!
Daler-Rowney Sketchbook
One of the best little sketchbooks out there and an essential for an independent artist. Every illustration Justin has done in the past 10 years started in one of these sketchbooks. They are cheap, well-made and extremely versatile.
Huion LED Light Pad
OIL PAINTING SUPPLIES
Old Holland Oil Paints
Justin and Annie’s favorite oil paints. They offer excellent, high-quality pigment strength, an excellent range of colors, and a perfect buttery consistency. Somewhat expensive, but we have found them worth the price.
Walnut Alkyd Medium
A perfect medium for oil painters who want a fast-drying, solvent-free, non-toxic medium for thinning their oil paint.
Ampersand Smooth Panel
An affordable, robust, well made panel offered in a wide variety of sizes and configurations. Our primary panel for oil painting!
Robert Simmons Synthetic Brushes
The Expressions Angled Shaders are amazingly affordable, yet sturdy, all-purpose brushes that we use in all of our painting.
WATERCOLOR SUPPLIES
Daniel Smith Watercolors
Daniel Smith has a legendary assortment of colors, including some very rare ones they grind themselves from natural minerals. *The link takes you to a 238 color sample sheet that is awesome if you’d like to try them out before you buy them.
Escoda Reserva Kolinsky Sable Brush
Our #1 favorite watercolor brush! Expensive, but worth it.
Arches Hot Press Watercolor Paper
A great watercolor paper with a velvety surface that comes pre-taped, so you don’t have to mess with taping down. Excellent for watercolor and ink!
DIGITAL TOOLS
Wacom Intuos Pro
This has been Justin’s absolute #1 digital painting tablet. Extremely versatile, reprogrammable, and customizable. The perfect compliment to Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop
Still the industry standard in digital illustration. We love all the other new programs that are coming out, but in the end, Adobe Photoshop is still the best. It is just an absolute workhorse and can do essentially everything we need for digital painting and design.
27” Inch Imac
Robust, powerful work machines for the digital illustrator. Pricey, but high-quality with a great lifespan. Max out the ram and daisy chain them with multiple monitors to get the most out of them!
Justin Gerard Brush Sets
I design and make all my own brushes for Photoshop and Procreate. I use these exact brushes on every one of my digital illustrations. You can find them on our store!