✍🏼Materials Overview: Professional Markers and Paper for Interior Sketching

✍🏼Materials Overview: Professional Markers and Paper for Interior Sketching

In this video, I share my most frequently used materials for interior sketching, including the best paper for markers and the markers I trust the most.

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MATERIALS YOU WILL NEED FOR "BASE"

To get the most out of the training and achieve high-quality sketching results, you’ll need the following materials. I’ve also included sample links from Amazon for your convenience.


1. Markers and Paper

  • Alcohol-based markers such as Copic, Molotow, Winsor & Newton Promarker, Zig, Chartpak, Stylefile, or TOUCH (any professional marker brand will work). More on it below.

  • Marker paper, size A4 or Letter (at least 70g/m2): This lightweight paper helps preserve your markers’ pigment and makes blending easier. Example: Canson marker PAD

Tip: Regular paper will also work for practice.


2. Grey Markers

  • At least three shades of gray:

    • Light (e.g. N2 / C2). Example: Warm Grey #2 (Chartpak)

    • Medium (e.g. N4 / C4)

    • Dark (e.g. N6 / C6)

Examples:

Here is a nice Copic grey set of 5 + liner: Copic Sketch Alcohol Marker 5 Colors + Multiliner SP Set, Sketching Grays

Set of 6 from W&N: Winsor & Newton ProMarker Set, 6 Count, Neutral Tones


3. Coloured Markers

  • At minimum, please prepare these 5 essential colours:

    • Beige, Sand, or Light Brown. Example: Potato Brown (TOUCH)

    • Dark Brown or Chocolate

    • Olive

    • Deep Red

    • Deep Blue

Example: Here is a nice set I like: Copic Marker 12 Piece Set - Architecture Colours


4. Highlighting Tools

  • White pastel pencil (e.g. Caran'd’Ache)

  • White ink gel pen (e.g. Gelly Roll, Sakura)


5. Linework Tools

  • Black liner or waterproof fineliner (e.g. Copic Multiliner, Uni Liner, Faber-Castell)

  • Pencil (I use Palomino Blackwing), eraser, and ruler

  • Optional: Architect’s ruler (ideal for precise measurements and drawing to scale). Example: Architect's Scale Ruler (Inches)


Download the PDF list (with direct Amazon links) of my favourite materials for interior sketching on my website, here: https://schoolofsketching.com/resources


Happy Sketching!

Olga Sorokina

"BASE"

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🎓Free Preview: Sample Lesson & Materials for BASE

  • ✍🏼Sample Lesson: How to Draw a Sofa in 2-Point Perspective (Danish Design & Velvet Texture)
  • ✍🏼Materials Overview: Professional Markers and Paper for Interior Sketching

🎓Getting Started: Welcome, Marker Technique Basics & Perspective History

  • Welcome to the Course
  • ✍🏼Fundamentals of Marker Rendering: Using the Nib, Creating Gradients, and Blending Colours
  • How Renaissance Artists Measured Space: History of Perspective

🎓Part I -- Foundations: Your 5 Core Interior Drawing Lessons

  • ✍🏼Lesson 1/METRIC: Bedroom Sketch in 2-Point Perspective
  • ✍🏼Lesson 1/IMPERIAL: Bedroom Sketch in 2-Point Perspective
  • ✍🏼Lesson 2/METRIC: Sketch of a Classical Armchair in a 2-Point Perspective
  • ✍🏼Lesson 2/IMPERIAL: Sketch of a Classical Armchair in a 2-Point Perspective
  • ✍🏼 Lesson 3/METRIC: Dining Room Sketch in 1-Point Perspective
  • ✍🏼 Lesson 3/IMPERIAL: Dining Room Sketch in 1-Point Perspective
  • ✍🏼Lesson 4: French-Inspired Living Room Sketch in Combined Perspective
  • ✍🏼Lesson 5: Furniture Layout in Marker Technique3
  • Bonus for Lesson 5: Step-by-Step PDF Guide for Furniture Layout

🎓PART II: Bonus Lessons & Extra Exercises

  • ✍🏼Textures Basics in Interior Sketching: Concrete (Part 1)
  • ✍🏼Textures Basics in Interior Sketching: Wood, Brick, Metal, Leather (Part 2)
  • ✍🏼Quick Scandinavian Interior Sketch
  • ✍🏼How to Draw People in Interior Spaces (3 Step-by-Step Tutorials)
  • ✍🏼10 Daily Exercises to Build a Confident Sketching Hand
  • ✍🏼Draw Faster with This Upside-Down Exercise for Interior Designers
  • ✍🏼The 7 Most Common Mistakes in Interior Sketching

🎓Perspective Essentials for Interior Sketching

  • ✍🏼How to Measure the Depth of the Room (X+1 Method)/Measurement Point
  • ✍🏼How to Draw a Room in 2-Point Perspective (Method 1)
  • ✍🏼How to Draw a Room in 2-Point Perspective (Method 2)

🎓Zoom Workshops Replays

  • NEW! Drawing Modernism

🎓Theoretical Background: From My Book "The SKETCH" & Beyond

  • 📖 Book "The SKETCH. Interior Design Drawing" (PDF)
  • Selected Articles from My Blog
  • Finding Clients as a Sketch Artist: 3 Foundational Strategies for Beginners

Information

  • Interior Sketching Education

(1)🎓1-POINT PERSPECTIVE WITH A GRID: MARKER SKETCH OF A LIVING ROOM WITH AN ORANGE SOFA

  • ✍🏻Intro
  • ✍🏻Grid for 1-point perspective (frontal view)
  • ✍🏻Interior with an orange sofa (Part I)
  • ✍🏻Interior with an orange sofa (Part II)

(2)🎓2-POINT PERSPECTIVE WITH A GRID: MARKER INTERIOR SKETCH OF A BEDROOM

  • ✍🏻Grid for 2-point perspective (oblique view)
  • ✍🏻Marker Bedroom Interior with a Grid (Part I)
  • ✍🏻Marker Bedroom Interior with a Grid (Part II)