Here is a list of what i recommend you get in order to successfully complete this instructable: Required supplies: -sketch pencils in different hardnesses: HB, 2B, 4B, 6B (and 8B optional) = $5 -a sketch pad that is 18" by 24" = $10 -1/2" drafting masking tape = $4 -a pad of tracing paper 9" x 12" = $3 -a good wad of kneaded eraser = $2 -a "Tuff Stuff" eraser stick = $2 -dry cleaning eraser pad = $4 -a foxtail (aka drafting duster) = $3 -assorted paper stumps for shading = $2 -prismacolor pencil sharpener = $4 -erasing shield = $1 Total required supplies: $40 Optional supplies, in order of importance: -small pencil case for pencils and erasers = $2 -larger pencil case for small pencil case, eraser shield, and dry cleaning eraser pad =$3 -sketch pad board 23"x26" = $10 -stand-up easel for displaying your finished work like a pro= $20 -nylon portfolio bag 23" x 31" = $22 Total optional supplies: $57 Total recommended supplies: $97 Oh, and you will need scissors and scotch tape in a few steps, but I assume that you have that stuff. I am going to assume that you are like most people and don't have a single item except maybe a number 2 pencil. Mud Puddle Books.To start with, you will need to go to your local art store to get the items that you don't already have. "How to use Sketch to design floor plans". "Design methods in UK schools of architecture". "Design ideation: the conceptual sketch in the digital age". Richard Brereton, Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators & Creatives, Laurence King, repr. Sue Bleiweiss, The Sketchbook Challenge, Potter Craft, 2012, pp. sfn error: no target: CITEREFAlois_Fabry1958 ( help) ^ a b Diana Davies (editor), Harrap's Illustrated Dictionary of Art and Artists, Harrap Books Limited, (1990) ISBN 2-8.^ σχέδιος Archived at the Wayback Machine, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus.^ sketch Archived at the Wayback Machine, on Oxford Dictionaries.Street artists in popular tourist areas sketch portraits within minutes. Sketches drawn to help authorities find or identify wanted people are called composite sketches. Courtroom sketches record scenes and individuals in law courts. The ability to quickly record impressions through sketching has found varied purposes in today's culture. It can be used to map out floor plans of homes. It can be used to communicate design intent and is most widely used in ideation. Sketching is also used as a form of communication in areas of product design such as industrial design. The book might be purchased bound or might comprise loose leaves of sketches assembled or bound together. The term " sketchbook" refers to a book of blank paper on which an artist can draw (or has already drawn) sketches. The sketchbooks of some individual artists have become very well known, including those of Leonardo da Vinci and Edgar Degas which have become art objects in their own right, with many pages showing finished studies as well as sketches. Most visual artists use, to a greater or lesser degree, the sketch as a method of recording or working out ideas. Underdrawing is drawing underneath the final work, which may sometimes still be visible, or can be viewed by modern scientific methods such as X-rays. A "sketch" usually implies a quick and loosely drawn work, while related terms such as study, modello and "preparatory drawing" usually refer to more finished and careful works to be used as a basis for a final work, often in a different medium, but the distinction is imprecise. This generally includes making sketches ( croquis) from a live model whose pose changes every few minutes. Sketching is generally a prescribed part of the studies of art students. Benzene does not itself add color, but merely modifies the shaded pencil areas. Starting with a pencil drawing first, then washing over the pencil areas with a sable haired water color brush dipping it into the benzine is called Wash and Benzene. When the pencil is handled almost as if it was a brush, resulting a paintlike quality, then the technique is called Pencil Painting. Line gives character but shading gives depth and value-it is like adding an extra dimension to the sketch. It may be somewhat limited in effect, yet it conveys dimension, movement, structure and mood it can also suggest texture to some extent. This type of drawing without shading or lightness, is usually the first to be attempted by an artist. A line drawing is the most direct means of expression.