Weapons of Choice! post your art tools!

I also use a Wacom Bamboo tablet, though it's more for the coloring part.
Mostly? #2 pencil, pencil eraser, and whatever pen is handy. Oh! And a variety of beverages. To keep me fueled and happy.

Cleanup and most coloring in GIMP. Too lazy for PS.

My gear is pretty much a papermate 0.5 mechanical pencil along with my ziploc bag of colored pencils. Occasionally, I use a bic 0.5 for what little shading I do. 0.7 is only used for lots of dark shading so I don't waste my precious 0.5 lead...

I use quite a lot of things >u<;;

Laaaarge variety of traditional tools... I never know what to buy so I like to get myself a variety of things to try out.

Digital Stuff; 27" iMac i5 with Wacom Intuos3 Large (currently being held together by duct tape...) & ... a windows computer

Digital Tools (I like to try out all kinds of thing for varying purposes so I have a wide variety here, too)...
~ Photoshop CS4
~ Manga Studio Debut 4
~ Corel Painter 11
~ Audodesk Sketchbook Pro [with Copic patch]
~ RETAS Stylos Pro [demo]
~ Paint Tool SAI (rarely)

It's varied tho.. if it's about colouring I only use SAI or photoshop with wacom intuos, I choose which software depends on the outcome I wanna make.

If it's about comic, the inking is always traditional way, but the tools can be varied depends on my mood LOL
It can be:
- 0.5 mechanical pencil
- 0.05 drawing pen
- 0.1 drawing pen
- maru pen
- g pen

...as for tonings, they're mostly digital copy-pasted but the original pattern is traditional.

Staedtler pigment liner... I bought them yesterday, and they keep smearing on my hands. XP Oh well, I'll get used to it.

^like those.

Pencils, a pencil sharpener, a white eraser (must get better one)... ah, Bamboo tablet, even though I don't like using it.
Printer paper because it's cheap.

Digital art must haves: My graphite 4 pen tablet, PS3 and paint tool SAI.

Traditional art must haves: uni pin felt tip pen .1 , sketch pad, color pencils (I'm not picky about this)

My guns of war are:
1-my cheap $1.50 mechanical pencil,kept loaded and well oiled for sketching.

2-my extra sharp $2 stainless steel ruler by mospas.
3-my set of 0.5mm $1 black gel pens for inking.
4-my ream of 500 bond papers I bought for $6( even paper is pricey here)
5-my FHM magazine collection(no soldiar should be without them)
6-my trusty Lenovo G550 combat comnuter...I mean laptop. .2.3 ghz dual core,4 gb of ram,300mb hard disk.
7-The gimp,because I can neither afford photoshop,nor do I use pirated software...besides,I've always diliked photoshop.
8-my trusty acer liquide cellphone equiped with a 5mp espionage camera.....because I can't afford a printer....yet.
9-inkscape,this software converts my handdrawn art to vector in three clicks and its free.
10-the free 3d modelling software for aspiring soldiers.

I believe that's all....

oh yeah,NO TABLET

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same here my friend, i don't have a tablet and i dont know how to use tablet so:

tradition:
-pencil... either .5 mechanical pencil or hb pencil
-.2 unipen
-short bondpaper
-scanner

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Hmmm...

Traditional:
Any Mechanical Pen or Staedler HB or 5H will do for me for any sketch

Actually, any pencil in sight will do! xD
For inking, I just use a .2 UniPin
Sometimes, I'd use an HBW pen or Faber Castel pen for shading xD
Faber Castel Colored Pencils or any good Oil Pastels for coloring...

Digital:
CD-R King's 5.8" Tablet (it's small so going to replace it soon xD)
G-IMP
MS Paint FTW!!

Oh yes, of course, my trusty SCANNER!

staedtler?
FABER CASTEL IS TEH BEST WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING PENCILS

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My guns may be small and few, but they come fully loaded

Cheap 0.5 mechanical pencils
All-purpose white paper
Canon copier/scanner
Cheap graphics tablet I bought in college
Manga Studio EX4

And my most powerful weapon of all...

My imagination

Most of my work is digital. For that:

- Trust Slimline Desgin tablet
- Manga Studio EX
- CorelDraw (when I draw patterns for my plushies)
- Photoshop
- Painter
- DAZStudio

Oh, yes, I don't draw without the computer. To get the right body perspectives I use a rendered image of the character on Daz. Nude and in the pose I want. The rest I made by hand with Manga Studio.

But when the computer isn't near, a paper (napkins are too funny), common pen and pencils.

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I started drawing using a pencil but when I got into digital drawing I never touched a pencil again ( to draw that is )

- Wacom Bamboo Fun Tablet
- Manga Studio

I go with....

Pencils:
-Zebra TS-3 Mini Mech. Pencil(Blue Lead)
Affectionately named "Silver Bullet" ^^;

-Zebra M-301 (Reg. Lead)

-Prismacolor Verithins(12 set) and Prismacolor Premier(48 set)

Pens/ Markers:
-Copic Multiliner(For inking and use with marker)

-Prismacolor Markers(24 set + a few extra colors I bought)

I travel light.

That's all I need. Nothing more. I'm saving up for a Cintiq though, but I'm fine without it.