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The very first step for us to start creating our comic strip is making sure we have all
of our various art supplies together. The first thing we're going to want to have on
hand is a straight edge. This is going to help us draw boxes and also things like word
balloons to give nice straight lines. You can go with one more of your fancy triangles
from high school, or you can go with a good old ruler. Next, we're going to have a series
of pens and a blue pencil. This is not a typical graphite pencil. It's actually going to have
blue that you're going to be able to draw. That's very important. We don't want the traditional
pencil. Half the times you can actually go out and get the mechanical pencils here to
be able then to put your blue inside so you never run out. Then we're going to have a
series of pens, which we're going to use for inking. There's going to be very fine felt
tip pens. Also, for coloring you can various larger or smaller markers on hand to do our
coloring for our comic strip. Lastly, but definitely one of the most important things
we have to have, paper. I'm going to go through just normal drawing paper as well as tracing
paper today.