Here's the supplies that we'll use to create our artists Image Source book. Again, it's an artist tool. So really, it's for the artists, it's not so much as a bragging tool or one to showcase although you're more than welcome to show it to other people. It's just a very valuable tool that I have found to keep my images together organized and accessible for me. So to start with, I use when I'm going to be filling the journal, I use just a fine liner and I buy them by the box. I can get like a dozen in here and I go through them very quickly.
They produce a wet fine line, it bleeds through the paper somewhat, but I don't want the heaviness of a ballpoint pen. So this seems to be a good compromise for me. I have a very inexpensive set of mechanical pencils in colors, and it's made by a reputable company. I buy them again on Amazon and I'm looking for mechanical pencils because this way I don't have to sharpen them, I can just, you know, add more lead as needed. It produces a decent quality pigment. But again, I'm making a reference tool so I just need the hint of color the suggestion this comes with 36 different shades.
I think this might be a little excessive but I love it. When I use it. I empty it out of its container and I just put them all on the desk so it's like a rainbow before me. You'll need a pair of scissors to help cut the paper. Here I just have a cutting board to make nice straight lines. The meat of our paper of our journal are these sketch pads.
They're very inexpensive I buy them for $1 each. You can buy them at the dollar store even they are nine by 12 This is just sketchpad comes in actual white paper fairly fairly substantial. You can buy a doodle pad which is 60 sheets. The color is a little off white, it's a little less storable but it's still very effective and I use these quite a bit. And lastly here I have a drawing pad. It's a little more heavyweight.
It's only 30 sheets, but it's it's a nice, very quality paper. So we'll use these I have a ton of them I have a word doesn't. I am constantly adding to my collection. To make the journals a little nicer just for myself, I like to cover the top the cover so I can use nine. This is 12 by 12 paper because it fits the nine by 12 cover and you know this comes in great patterns and colors. You can use it to match the theme if that's your thing.
But I like to use this very durable gift bag. And what I do is I take it apart and I'll use the paper because it's somewhat more durable than just paper. It has like a little plastic coating on top and I believe this is 12 by 17, which is the perfect size for covering those 12 by those nine by 12 pads, I also use some double sided tape to adhere the paper to the cover. I use some masking tape to reinforce the pages inside the book. And then I use this gaffers tape or bookbinding tape for the spine. It reinforces the spine.
It because it's gaffers tape, it's removable, stretchy, and fabric, it just it's not tacky, except where you want it to be to adhere it to the paper. You could also use book tape and it comes in colors and this one's clear. This is another fine example of what you can use for the spine. The next chapter, we'll go over creating the external part of our journal