What is your favorite tool of the trade?

[IAMO]

Prismacolor Col-Erase Pencils are my favorite.

What's your favorite tool to create art?

[apocryphagraphics]

The Windsor & Newton Series 7 #2 brush. I do about 95% of my inking with it and couldn't go on without it!

[Marimo]

My eraser (ಠ_ಠ)

Haha actually I use Sakura Micron pens for inking and then paint tool sai for color.

[Spitfire]

Zebra the 2000, pen...it's so awesome, I love it.

[wartbellamy]

I cannot live without my trusty Intuos Wacom but I occasionally work with just pencil and paper.

A good ballpoint pen is always great for random doodles!

[getsuart]

Photoshop.

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Okay, without joke, mechanical pen and sakura microns. Maybe some watercolor too

[gateofselidor]

A simple HB mechanical pencil. You can't see a single trace of it on the finished pages, but it's the foundation of every one.

[zoonland]

Pencil (my favorites are Staedtler 4H and 2HB), a lot of pens to ink (and also Windsor & Newton black ink when I find it), especially my beloved one Pilot G-Tec.
Then, Wacom Intuos but only because I need digital colors. Otherwise I'll always go with traditional tools

[Potoh]

For sketches I mostly use a blue or black mechanical pencil. For outlines I use fineliners from unipin, sometimes also my wacom tablet, but I'm not very good at working digital. For the colours mostly watercolours or copicmarkers, also molotow markers.

[ghostnxs]

.5 or .7 Mechanical Pencils, PrismaColor Premier markers, Tachikawa Pen with G+Maru nibs and Photoshop. I do plan on getting copic markers for the covers of my comics.

[hades]

Ink. I really really love inking.
Sharpie fine pens are WONDERFUL for speedy sketching too. Better then some microns I've used.

I also love watercolor and oil paints but I'm too much of a digital artist to do a lot of traditional work anymore.

[joannekwan]

This type of mechanical pencil exactly. I've been using these since the 6th grade and they're the only mechanical pencil for me. The grip's blown out on the current one, but I've got a few extras that I haven't used yet as backup.

[jackieuy127]

OFC MY BLOOD?? no, i am actually terribly afraid of blood. I really like this blue and white Dr. Grip I found on my desk once, it completes me

[Waterdrain]

I've always liked fiber castle pens and micron pens, I've used them since high school and I still use them now.^u^
I also like mechanical pencils since they don't smear as much as regular pencils.

[DynamoToon]

A pencil. Can't really say anything else.

[TristanJensen]

pencils, just normal everyday pencils.... thats all I really ever use (still working out the kinks with paint tool sai, it'll make sense eventually...)

[Kura]

Pencils are my favourite tool that I actually use.

My favourite art tool to work with is charcoal and graphite, though I don't really use them for making comics.

[abbastudios]

4H and 2B pencils..................

[phoenixrenaissance]

Dr Martin's Radiant Watercolor dyes. The tool that finally made me able to portray vivid color and contrast.

[AnnaLandin]

Well, I use an old, reliable Wacom Cintiq 21UX (which is no longer being produced) to do most of my art, and it is a wonderful piece of equipment.

But if we're talking traditional art, my favourite tools are this:

a.k.a the Pilot Pocket Brush Pen Soft, which is a dream to ink with. It's got all the flexibility of a brush, and all the control of a pen. The line-width variation is wonderful. <3

When colouring traditionally, I mostly use Windsor&Newton watercolours.