The Essentials Set

Excellent Tool, its well designed and very useful for my drawings as the patterns makes it easier for me to sketch with accuracy. its size is perfect to move around under the paper and the patterns comes in different scales.

price was fair and it comes in a nice box to carry it. its very durable. arrived quickly. highly recommend

I plan to use these for texture and contrast when drawing and developing designs for art quilts and pieced quilts. This is a set of 4 hard plastic, double sided, texture embossing tiles with 4 common textures: hexagon, dot, diagonal lines and, crosshatch. Each 4" X 5.75" tile has one texture, a small version on one side and larger version on the other side. The tiles have plenty of raised texture, are quick and easy to maneuver underneath the paper, to add texture and shading. Place a tile un...

These tiles are made of a thick plastic which is sturdy. It's very unlikely that these would break by accident. In other words, they will probably last forever. I am not much of an artist, but got these just for the fun of having an interesting tool. I tested these with a regular 2B pencil and some colored pencils. I even applied some blue watercolor to see if these had any effect, but they didn't. However, after the watercolors dried I went over that area with a colored pencil and the textur...

These are super simple, just pieces of hard plastic with a texture on them. They do what they should, which is let you quickly fill in largish design areas of a drawing with a texture. They're fun to play with, and they do save time when the point of a drawing isn't to do every single pencil stroke by hand. Obviously they don't work completely seamlessly if you're trying to fill design areas larger than the size of the tile, but to me that's acceptable given that this style of fill is natural...

I am a hobbyist so my interest in these texture plates is purely recreational. I recently started playing around with gelli plate printing and wanted to try these out to help me create textural backgrounds for my artwork. I like that the 4 patterns that are included in this set in both smaller and larger sized grids are classic and subtle. Even the sides of each plate with the larger versions of the patterns produce a subtle background that won't compete with the focal point stencils and mask...

Textured Plates help you achieve designs ... 4 Tiles, each has a front and back design pattern ... 8 different styles to choose from. Simply put the plate with the texture you want, under the paper ... Use crayon/pencil, rubbed back-n-forth, see the design form as you glide across ... Easy to do half and half types as well, just replace the tile in the area you want different. Dimensions: 5 3/4 x 4 1/4 x 1/8 inch thick. Each Tile Plate has a HOLE at...

These are a bit pricey, but they are pretty good to have for artwork. The material is a good heavy plastic, and I expect it will last longer than I will. Not flimsy plastic like some of these types of products are. Not that those are bad, but you get what you pay for. When I color, I sometimes like to make my backgrounds have a design rather than just a sky or colored background, and these are perfect for that. The last picture shows what the pattern is like: it is the same on both sides, but...

I love sketching, so I was intrigued by SketchTiles. This is a set of 4 tiles, featuring 4 different texture/patterns - a crosshatch grid, a dotted grid, a hexagon grid, and a diagonal lines grid. Each template is double sided, featuring the same grid in 2 different sizes. They come in a storage box, but they all have a hole from which to be hung or kept on a ring for storage purposes. These would be great not just for sketch artists, but for architects, designers, and other visual artists th...

These are an absolutely beautiful set of texture tiles. The patterns include four very useful basics, each in two different grid sizes. The tiles are what I would consider a professional grade material made from a solid plastic that should last a lifetime. There's a handy little hole in the corner of each tile so that if you want to store them on a ring instead of in the box, you can do that easily. They perform exactly as they should, with a pattern relief that is pronounced enough so that i...

first off, i'm utterly delighted by the packaging. it reminds me of old VHS tapes. because of this, i've just been keeping them in it when i take them with me. this of course is a double edged sword: they look adorable in their little box, but they're also harder to fit in some of my bags. i deal with it for the aesthetic though! they're a nice sturdy plastic, but each tile is still nice and lightweight. i love that there are two different scales of each texture on every tile, so each is doin...