So I won’t stutter like a moron the next time I’m asked “what do you want for Christmas/your birthday?” and eventually just say “I don’t really know” — not because I don’t know what I want, but because I don’t know how to ask for things that I want.
Links are provided for reference only; you can find most of this stuff in a broad variety of places. I’m just providing the link so you can see what this stuff looks like if you’re not familiar with the product. I’m very art supplies- and book-oriented at this point.
Updated Aug. 14, 2010.
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Prismacolor colored pencils. These have a retail price anywhere from a buck fifty for an individual pencil to a few hundred dollars for a huge wooden case with 132 different colors, and literally all price points in between. You can get ridiculous deals on Prismacolor sets on eBay, around 30-50 cents a pencil for most of the sets. You can find the 120-color sets for less than $70, shipped, and the 132-color sets for around $90 if you find the right auctions. Prismacolor has a couple of lines of pencils — their Premier line; a series of pencils with thinner, harder cores called Verithin; and water-soluable watercolor pencils. I use the Premier pencils.
Gift Cards
If you like giving gift cards, I like spending money at:
Barnes and Noble, The Gap, Banana Republic, Target, Nordstrom Rack
$5-9
Art Supplies: No. 11 XActo hobby knife blades.
Art Supplies: Pad of sketching newsprint.
Art Supplies: Draftsman Duster (linky)
Toy: Any G.I. Joe figure with “Viper” in its name (Alley-Viper, Street-Viper, Neo-Viper, etc.).
Toy: Any generic “you can have a bunch of these” Star Wars figure, with words like “Trooper,” “Driver,” or “Pilot” in its name (Clonetrooper, Stormtrooper, Snowtrooper, AT-AT Driver, Bespin Wing Guard, etc.).
Book: “Robota” (linky)
$10-19
DVD: “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” complete series on DVD (sold at Walmart)
Art Supplies: Bienfang Bristol Board – vellum surface (would prefer 9×12, but size not important) (linky)
Art Supplies: Art S. Buck anatomical models (linky)
Book: “Mechanika: Creating the Art of Science Fiction with Doug Chiang” (linky)
Book: “Dynamic Figure Drawing” (linky)
Book: “The Artist’s Complete Guide to Drawing the Head” (linky)
Book: Dot Grid Book (linky) or Dot Grid Journal (linky) from Behance
Book: “G.I. Joe vs Cobra: The Essential Guide” (linky)
Book: “G.I. Joe: Origins” (v2; v3)
Book: “Classic G.I. Joe” (v1; v2; v3; v4; v5; v6; v7; v8; v9)
Book: “G.I. Joe: Cobra” (v1; v2)
$20-49
Book: “Stan Lee’s How to Draw Comics (limited edition)” (linky) (releases in November)
Book: “Flaunt: Designing Effective, Compelling and Memorable Portfolios of Creative Work.” (linky)
Book: “Transformers: The IDW Collection, Volume 1″ (linky)
Book: “Transformers: The IDW Collection, Volume 2″ (linky) (releases in September)
Art Supplies: Staedtler Lumograph drawing pencils (linky)
Art Supplies: 120-count Global Classic leather pencil case (linky)
Art Supplies: Sakura Koi watercolor sketchbook (24 colors) (linky)
Art Supplies: Kuretake brush pen (linky)
Art Supplies: Drawing Head for Koh-i-Noor Portable Drawing Board (linky)
Video game: Darksiders (Playstation 3)
$50-99
Video game: Heavy Rain (Playstation 3)
Video game: Transformers: War for Cybertron (Playstation 3)
Art Supplies: Artograph Lightracer II 12×18 lightbox (linky)
Art Supplies: Koh-i-Noor Portable Drawing Board (linky)
Book: “The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia” (linky)
Clock: Dharma Initiative alarm clock (linky)
$100+ (listed basically in price order)
Toy: Star Wars All-Terrain Armored Transport (linky) (This gift buys my love for basically all of eternity. All of it.)
Art Supplies: Studio Designs Glass Top Vision Craft Station (linky)
