how to make a perfect pencil drawing

People who see me drawing often remark that they wish they could draw

better. I hear this from my students fairly often. My response is simple:

“Draw.” A lot of people who should don’t consider pencil sketch to be all

that important. They’re designers or photographers and don’t understand the

technical and observational acumen that results from sketchup make and how

it will enhance their design skill or photographic eye.

Pencil drawing and drawing pen receive separate treatments; both sections

stress materials and tools — including graphite pencils, charcoal and

pastel pencils, wax pencils, pens, brushes, marking pens, scratching tools,

and more. They also explore different methods of handling strokes and

lines, techniques for stabling and conveying tones and shadows, and

technical tips. The 28 step-by-step demonstrations — many of them

exquisitely illustrated in full color — range from techniques of fine

penwork and cross-hatching to simple drawings with colored inks and colored

markers.

While there are no fixed rules or necessary supplies for figure animal

drawings—a simple sketchbook and a pencil will do—there are some common

tricks and materials that seasoned artists, such as Grimaldi, use often.

Below, we share five expert tips you can use to help improve your figure

best drawing skills, from having proper posture to treating each part of

your art drawing equally.

Some artists prefer portrait drawing with mechanical pencils over drawing

tutorials with wooden pencils. You can create beautifully-shaded pencil

sketches and pencil sketch drawing with a mechanical pencil by using

techniques only slightly different than those used with traditional

pencils.

Knowing the basics of shading with mechanical pencils helps you to create

depth and realism in your shading drawing. A blender is a colored pencil

drawings tool, often made of paper, that allows an artist to soften lines

in a charcoal drawing and blend them together. You may wish to use a

blender, if you tried any of the above shading techniques and found it

difficult to make the shading appear continuous and realistic.