Ruler (optional) Pencil Mark Fundamentals.
Sandpaper (for filing the graphite of your pencils). Craft knife (for sharpening your pencils). Pencils (4H, 2H, HB, 2B and 4B are ideal). Here is a list of basic materials you will need: I also use a craft knife and sandpaper in order to sharpen my pencils. I use a range of graphite pencils to achieve light and dark tones within my drawings. The most obvious materials you’ll need are some pencils and a sketchbook, but there is a little more to it than that. In this blog post, I explain the reasons you should sketch before you paint, I cover the materials you will need and I demonstrate step-by-step two landscape drawings. Besides this drawing and sketching is fun. You wouldn’t start building a house with no foundations or prior plans and drawings, it’s the same when planning a painting. Planning a painting in your sketchbook first is an important step in the painting process in my opinion. This problem could have been alleviated had these artists carried out some pencil sketches first to design their compositions. 
I’ve seen many terrible landscape paintings in art galleries (some with high price tags) because of bad compositions due to a lack of prior planning. But why sketch and draw, why not just start painting? Well, there is a simple answer: if you go straight into a studio painting, you’ll likely run into trouble with the composition. Whenever I paint a landscape I never just get straight into it, I always do some planning first and the planning always begins with my sketchbook.
Check out these blog posts Why Sketch and Draw?. 
Drawing Demonstration #2 – Shotover River, Queenstown, New Zealand. Drawing Demonstration #1 – Rolling Hills of Northland, New Zealand. Achieving Depth in Your Pencil Drawings.
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