I've been drawing for a big deal of my life. Drawing things from manga, to anime, to chibis, hell- the whole anime scene. But I'm also good with the weapons, armor, monster, fantasy genre. Now the question is.
I never really was picky on the utensils I used to draw..
now I noticed there were younger artist [i'm 18] who know the back and fronts of lining and coloring [shading and all that good stuff]
I don't know what to pick up to start coloring my own art. [Since I liked the black and white theme] but I wanna try something new.
Photoshop and digital art- is way to difficult to grasp- though I have an understanding.
Does anyone have any ideas or recommendation for pens, markers, and what I should try?
Get a decent black pen that's permanent and pigment-based. Fine point. Usually that's pretty good to start with.
copic sketch markers or prisma color markers
For line drawing, various pencils for the base sketches/alterations to them, and pigment liners for inking. Get 5 or 6 different sizes and use them all.
For coloring, try Prismacolors on clean, strong photocopies of the line drawings (to avoid possible smudging/ruination of the original drawings).
Look for Copic markers, friend of mine is a cartoonist (and anime lover) and she do wonders with them, quite pricey, but they worth.
Follow the yellow brick road http://copicmarker.com/
Photoshop is difficult to get the hang of, but if you decide to try digital art again I suggest Paint Tool Sai. It has less special features than Photoshop, but if you only want to draw and color and not use shitty filters I recommend it. It's got a more user friendly lay-out. It's more sensitive to tablet pressure than Photoshop, and you can make the smoothest fucking lines without even using the pen tool.
(not what you were asking for but I take every opportunity to pimp SAI)