Which medium/media do you prefer to work in?

Given permission to get threadmakin', might as well start with a basic topic...

I'm kinda curious about this. What are your favorite media to work with, tropers? =3

Pencils, colored pencils, ink, charcoal, various types of paint (watercolor, oils, tempera, acrylic), digital programs such as Photoshop, etc.

I definitely prefer colored pencils—specifically, Prismacolors—for the amount of control and variety. Also, the fact that they're incredibly fun to work with. After having finally gotten hold of a good set of pens, I'm finding ink to be my second favorite medium.

How about you all? ^^

I prefer using just a mechanical pencil and black art pens.

Mechanical pencil, whatever black inked pen is in my reach, plain old printer paper. I am boring and work in black and white.

I like to sketch and color digitally, as layers are groovy. I currently usually use a Kuretake brush-pen for my inking, but I'm thinking of giving my nib-holder and G-pen or Maru nibs another go soon.

edited 26th Apr '10 6:27:04 PM by Shadowtext

For me, it kinda depends. I do quick sketches on whiteboard with a marker, but I've also done some pencil/paper work. [1] [2] [3] For whatever reason, I've also become somewhat fluent in spritework using MS Paint.

edited 26th Apr '10 6:31:01 PM by Blueeyedrat

I have a pencil and a paper. I draw swords and superheroes. Nobody looks at them.

Uh... Well, same as Krrackknut in every aspect except I don't do swords and I do slightly more than superheroes.

edited 26th Apr '10 6:51:58 PM by ACDrawings

I work mostly in pencil sketches.

I like working with clay, watercolor, and acrylic paints.
Unfortunately they're too messy and expensive to use anymore, so I stick with pencils and occasional inking lately.

I mainly use my tablet PC. (Am I weird to draw in Flash? I like the vector graphics.)

For real-life stuff, just pencil. I kind of like clay, too. Not especially good at it, though.

And painting...No. Just... No. Ends up looking like I used felt pens.

edited 26th Apr '10 8:17:51 PM by newtonthenewt

Pencil and paper, usually. I use dip pens, brushes and ink on occasion, but only when I'm really putting a lot of effort into the image. I colour digitally when I colour, though I do have me some schnazzy art markers. :3

I prefer mechanical pencil sketch, which I ink with a Sharpie ink pen, and color in Illustrator, with finishing tweaks in Photoshop.

Mechanical 2B pencils most of the time. I occasionally do works in watercolour.

You digital artists amaze me. I can't work with my tablet to save my life.

I have a moleskine-like, high-grammage paper notebook which I use both for writing and sketches I write with a fountain pen. My Faber-Castell Vario mechanical pencil (0,7mm 2b) is exclusively for drawing. For anything more detailed or in colour, I use my tablet.

edited 26th Apr '10 10:58:41 PM by BonSequitur

Pencil. Paper. Nothing fancy except for my Wacom Tablet

I end up doodling a lot with pencil because that's what I have on hand when I'm taking lecture notes. :P

Charcoal and watercolor (usually not together) are pretty cool. Lately I've started using acrylic paints, but mostly to paint clay things...

I used to hate pen, but lately I've been liking it more. The opposite thing happened with color pencils, though.

Sometimes I do digital coloring, but I have no tablet, so this only happens if I bother to scan any doodles. I mess around with making avatars and signatures and what not, but I'm not that great at it. A tablet would be nice, but I'm a little indifferent about it.

What I really want to try is Prismacolor/Copic markers, but it's a little painful to look at their price tag...

I sometimes use a fine (0,5mm) felt-tip for tracing or making faux-woodcut/lithograph designs.

Live action.

I usually do sketching with either a Micron or a fine mechanical pencil. Coloring is almost always digital, using Corel Painter's Gouache brushes. I'm trying to learn digital watercoloring, but it's pretty tough - I've never really used watercolors, so I'm kind of starting from scratch here. ^^;

Mechanical pencil (0.5), Canson sketchpad (if srs, fully shaded drawing) or just the typical bond paper. Depends if I'm going to color it or not. I used to use colored pencils, but ever since I had a tablet, I just sketch on paper, then do everything else on Photoshop. Sometimes I skip the sketching on paper part and just go straight on the do everything else on Photoshop. So now I prefer doing everything else digitally because of layers and undo.

Black & white photography.

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What, it's a visual art. Just not one that you considered.

My ideal medium: Thick china marker, airbrush, Sharpie fineliner and a bigass box of colored ink and watercolor.

The medium I usually end up working in: Regular pencil, Sharpie fineliner, crayola markers and a portable box of watercolors.

The medium I'll settle for: Mechanical pencil, colored pencils. Lately I've been having to use all mechanical pencils and I really dislike them. You can't turn them to get a different line width and if you press even slightly too hard they break and shoot into your eye.

@neep: What kind of camera d'you use, then? ^^

The sound of a mechanical pencil breaking is synonymous with "Oh crap."

Pentax ME Super for shooting film. I forget what the digital camera I was using for the college newspaper was.

I've been wanting to find an affordable quality digital camera. Once I graduate I won't have ready access to a darkroom, which makes shooting film a bit problematic.

Digital Collage, it's the only visual art I do.