This video was so helpful! My dad bought me a graphite set for my birthday and I am so excited to learn how to work with the medium. I followed along when you drew the pear and mine doesn't look that bad for it being my first drawing! Thank you!!
thank you, I'm so glad you found this helpful! Its tricky to know where to start sometimes! also so happy the pear demo was helpful. I also just put up a part 2 of this graphite series with more beginners tips and things I didn't cover in this video 💙
Great video. It might be the first drawing related “How to...” video I’ve watched all the way through where I wanted to try what was said rather than turn it off half way through. Very insightful and encouraging. I recently started drawing again, unfortunately I live in Korea so all my art teachers know like one word of English (“good”). Which means trial-and-lots of error has been my constant companion.
thank you! I am genuinely so happy you liked this video and it was helpful for you! I agree there is a lot of trial and error involved. I filled up about two big sketchbooks with artwork over a couple of years before I began to feel like the practice was really paying off. I guess its all about the journey with art!
Wow. Really detailed video. It is the first time I have been so much Impressed by a video that my heart is screaming at me to just press that subscribe button and to search your channel for all of your videos and just watch them all. Appreciate the really good work.
I’m 42 and my Grandmother taught me to draw when I was a small child. I’ve always drawn and doodled in anything I’ve ever had, but just recently bought a charcoal & graphite combo set. I had no idea how to use them at all. Your vid was the first one I clicked on and I felt like you did a very good job explaining everything. Thank you very much, after I watched I felt confident enough in my skill set to know I can get good at this. I won’t give up till I have it down💯 Thanks👍🏼
Just what I needed. It’s been many years since I’ve drawn anything - camera work and music took over - but I recently lost my dog, aged almost 13, and would really like to be able to make a decent stab at drawing him. I know it won’t be great but it’s me remembering him. Back to basics…Thanks.
this video tutorial is really helpful! I also use a scratch paper underneath my hand I use in drawing to avoid unintentionally smudging the drawing while working on the other parts. Love this video ❤️
You are a Great teacher ! I'm so happy to see that people take time to leave you nice comments and thumb-up! Not all TH-cam channel have that chance! cause I watch many many of them ...in the past 06 months.......There is something about you ! You also take the time to answer your fans.....and I think people apreciate! People like you a lot! Bravo! 💐
Thank you!! I'm happy my channel has benefited you:) Answering comments is the most fun part of having a channel for me! Thank you for leaving so many kind comments already😊I really appreciate your support!
very nice teaching sister, im new to this but your teaching is on spot so far, i'm a 59 year old man , trying to learn different talents thanks for the lesson's
This was the most needed one! I was struggling how to draw realistically! And this guide will definetely help! Thank you for making such an organised and informative video:)😊
Jus subbed, this vid was extremely helpful esp with the circle on how to properly hold a shading pencil, I was making the mistake on the first circle, thank you sooo much!!
Becky Tregear Art aww thank you Becky! It is much more fun than watching the circles get shaded in real time😂 and graphite was the first medium I ever worked with:)
It's a very beautiful and wonderful drawing! I think your work is very special and wonderful. I learned a lot about how to draw. I watched it till the end while learning.
Side note- I love your shirt 🤍!! Your handwriting is so gooood!! The speed ups of the shading is so satisfying to watch 😍! I need to make this scale for my pencils- I just grab and go 🤣. You need to be an art teacher!! Value scales 😍😍!! Blending out graphite is sooo relaxing to me. The pear already looks 3-D 🤩! I don’t usually blend with a tissue- though seeing you use it- it works really well 🙌🏻!! Never thought about graphite as a powder 😯- good point! The crosshatching gave the stem a nice texture 💗!! AMAZING info art queen 👏🏻💖
Kari Beth aw thank you!! You can’t see on camera but it’s actually a dress😱 I love tiny floral print lol. The shading is definitely a lot more fun to watch sped up😂 I don’t mention in this vid but a more eco friendly way to shade is a good paintbrush instead of a tissue, although the brush has to be the right shape haha I need a new one. I’m glad you like the pear and omg cross hatching is so fun! IMO it’s the most fun way to shade😂💙
Great video! I always found the thicker, blunter tortillons hard to work with for both charcoal and pencil. The narrower ones that taper more are charmed (at least for me), because I can get more blending edge on the paper and they soften overtime acting a bit like the Q-tip but with a better grip in the hand. I guess there is a “breaking in” stage to these 😁
Ahh yes the blunter ones I usually call "blending stumps" and they really are stumps! Tortillons definitely don't last forever, but longer than a q-tip and allow to get into finer details! thanks for watching
I'm really proud of my pear and the pages I did while I followed this!! I would pause it and have something going in the background while I practiced techniques last night and this morning I finished with the pear! Thank you so much, this was great!
I'm so glad to hear that! I wanted this video to be accessible and informative at the same time haha. Good luck with your art journey and thanks for watching!
Thanks so much for sharing this, I'm just now getting back into drawing, use to draw way back in the mid to late '70's but switch to music, been playing guitar since 1974 & have been playing professionally & still am & enjoy it, but the music industry is soooo far down in the toilet it's sad!!! But this I like, you ROCK girl, I just subbed to your channel and will support it!!! Stay safe, Rock On & God Bless!!!
Thank you so much for subbing! I’m glad you’ve gotten back into drawing, it’s really fun and rewarding! I am no musician but I also love rock music! I actually plan to do some portraits of famous band members in the upcoming year:) I drew Jimi Hendrix earlier this year and Elvis a couple years back😄
I have been using graphite for as long as i can remember, but until recently.... i have been all about the HB pencil lol no others. So i bought my first actual set of graphites last year... i get it now! Haha but my confidence needs building. So thank you for this!! Very informative & u presented it in an easy to understand way so kudos!! *subscribed*
HB pencils are a good start when you’re just sketching! But having that range of B values really helps when you want to shade a drawing! I’m so glad this vid helped you out and thanks for watching☺️
To anyone who is new at The Desk Corner- this video is super old but it’s also my most popular! Check out some of my newer, updated content and don’t forget to subscribe & turn on the notifications🔔 (if you want) so you will see my future videos! :)
Thanks for showing me how to use that kind of pencils because I'm new at drawing and I got a set of pencils today. So I needs a lot of learning to do. I was just wondering do you use the same pencils for drawing out what you wants to draw or do you use another pencil to do that with?
Hey, thanks for dropping by my video! For sketching something out, I just use one of those cheap mechanical pencils because they don't need to be sharpened and you can lightly sketch all the details haha. Some people will tell you not to, but I really don't think it matters in the end! Good luck with your new pencils:)
if you wanna go dark I recommend Staedtler Mars Lumograph black 8b, which I believe is graphite-charcoal mixed. But for most of my drawings I only use 4B-4H. Another thing is that if you find out you can't go any darker with the current pencil, you just go for a harder grade and keep shading. That means, if you are shading with a 4b and the paper got too slippery, you go for a 2b and you can make it darker. That's how I found out some of the graphite drawings actually went as dark as a charcoal work
Thank you, I actually had that recommendation quite a lot and ended up trying out the staedtler pencils last month:) I got the graphite pencils(12b darkest) and the mars, and I really do like them! I’m a fan of incorporation charcoal and carbon into my graphite work as well. And thanks, I will remember that tip to use a harder grade pencil when that happens. I never thought of it before!💙
@@AlexisCassandraArt I know right? It sounds counterintuitive to keep darkening with a harder pencil, but it’s because when the paper got too slippery with graphite, a soft pencil would not leave a trace, but a harder one will.
very informative for people needing help with graphite 😀 yeah only use a finger to blend if its all you have, leaves oils on the paper and possibly lunch too if you haven't cleaned your hands 😛
fuzzydragons thank you!! I definitely am guilty of using my finger to blend back in my first sketchbook. It’s so tempting but not the best way to blend😂
Do you have enough highlights and shadows? Some areas can be left super white as highlights and others can be very dark. I find that if you add too much midtone sometimes you get a muddy look! Or it could be overblending
A good graphite black pencil would be Mars lumigraph black I keep a 2b and 8b to supplement my graphite set. I notice we both use the same erasure :) I love that little thing. However, I think one concept you missed would be paper quality which is probably the most important part of any graphite work.
I have a question, how do you properly hold a pencil on it's side to shade? I'm holding it at a weird angle and not sure if I'm doing it right. Does practicing help me get a better understanding on how to use my graphite pencils?
However you like to hold it:) This method is basically just to eliminate streaky shading or pressing too hard with your pencil and therefore having to sharpen more often. You don't need to angle your pencil too much to the side, just as much as you need to get the result you desire:) Practice definitely will give you an understanding of how you like to use them and you will be more comfortable with them!
for graphite, you actually dont need it to be as thick. This video is pretty old but now looking back, I think I would say at least around 120 gsm or over. While graphite works fine on thinner paper, I opt for paper to be a little thicker for the sake of preserving the artwork (thinner paper tends to rip, maybe crunch or fold over time)
Hello, it is really up to personal preference but I have a video all about popular paper comparison thats up on my channel! :) I also recently tried strathmore 500 bristol vellum paper, in my latest video I used it to draw a crocodile with graphite and charcoal, and its my new favorite paper for graphite/charcoal. It has some tooth(not completely smooth) but the texture isnt too noticeable or annoying. Stay clear of sketch paper that is really thin because it won't take a lot of layers which makes it hard to create a realistic graphite drawing:)
@@AlexisCassandraArt Thanks a lot for your time answering me, I am a construction Engineer and got in love with your realistic drawings, I can draw beautiful buildings lol, an I have recently used the Strathmore Bristol vellum series 300 for realist drawings and I didn't like it because of it's tooth as it gets very difficult to blend or may be I am not that professional to be able to blend, so I am going towards using the smooth surfaces.
@@KINGMKFH that is really awesome :) it takes a lot of patience to draw architecture. In your case I definitely agree that smooth surface will be best to get even lines, and it works well with fine liner too if you plan on inking your lines at some point :)
@@AlexisCassandraArt You are absolutely right I will share my first realistic drawing with once done will difenitly need your comments and guidance on it if you not mind. :)
I have taken up graphite drawing after a long absence. You seem quiet young to be so accomplished. To what extent do you think you were born to be an artist and to what extent were you taught?
That's great you are taking it up again! I think I've always enjoyed art, but it's been about nine years now of me taking it more seriously. So since my skill level has obviously improved a lot from so much practice its hard to tell! I will say I may have had an inclination though- my mom was also interested in art when she was younger and she was a great acrylic painter!
With graphite, you want to leave your main highlights light on the paper to begin with. If you want to add bright highlights later, you can use a kneaded eraser to lift some graphite up! Or for small details the tombow mono zero eraser works great. A white pencil won’t do the trick with graphite though
I would use a reference photo and then edit it so its grayscale and you can clearly see where the shadows are! They're usually at the bottom or mainly on one side where not much light is hitting, but it also depends on where the light source is coming from:)
I actually don’t use them in a particular order, just that I build up shading mostly with B range pencils. HB is a good pencil for super light shading or sketching:) the H range is a little too hard for me so I don’t use as often. B and 2B are great to use to first mark in shadows. As you play around with them you’ll figure out which ones you like to use most often, but I end up using 8B a lot for the dark shadows:) hope this helps
Do you mean a graphite stick 6B? I don't normally use graphite sticks, but you can use them to make graphite powder if you'd like to! I sometimes use a paintbrush with graphite powder
I just got my graphite pencils today and I'm a total newbie in drawing with these pencils. Thank you very much for the clear and great tips! 😁😁
how exciting, I hope you enjoy using your new pencils! Thanks for watching and I'm happy my video could help you out:)
This video was so helpful! My dad bought me a graphite set for my birthday and I am so excited to learn how to work with the medium. I followed along when you drew the pear and mine doesn't look that bad for it being my first drawing! Thank you!!
thank you, I'm so glad you found this helpful! Its tricky to know where to start sometimes! also so happy the pear demo was helpful. I also just put up a part 2 of this graphite series with more beginners tips and things I didn't cover in this video 💙
Thank you, just started drawing again. My wife bought me a set, never had one before. Explained it perfectly.
So glad that I could help you out! I'm sure you'll love them! thanks for watching:)
Wow, this was super helpful! Love how clearly you described the gradient and pencil use! Much thanks from a newbie!
I am glad this was helpful to you:) thank you for watching!
Great video. It might be the first drawing related “How to...” video I’ve watched all the way through where I wanted to try what was said rather than turn it off half way through. Very insightful and encouraging. I recently started drawing again, unfortunately I live in Korea so all my art teachers know like one word of English (“good”). Which means trial-and-lots of error has been my constant companion.
thank you! I am genuinely so happy you liked this video and it was helpful for you! I agree there is a lot of trial and error involved. I filled up about two big sketchbooks with artwork over a couple of years before I began to feel like the practice was really paying off. I guess its all about the journey with art!
Very helpful, especially the demo of shading the pear. Thank you!
I'm so glad it could help! thank you for watching:)
Wow. Really detailed video.
It is the first time I have been so much Impressed by a video that my heart is screaming at me to just press that subscribe button and to search your channel for all of your videos and just watch them all.
Appreciate the really good work.
aw thank you so much! This comment is really appreciated and I am glad that my video could be of help to you:)
I’m 42 and my Grandmother taught me to draw when I was a small child. I’ve always drawn and doodled in anything I’ve ever had, but just recently bought a charcoal & graphite combo set. I had no idea how to use them at all. Your vid was the first one I clicked on and I felt like you did a very good job explaining everything.
Thank you very much, after I watched I felt confident enough in my skill set to know I can get good at this. I won’t give up till I have it down💯
Thanks👍🏼
I'm so glad this vid was helpful for you! I know you can do it!💪haha thank you for watching:)
Very nice tutorial. I love drawing in pencil, it used to be my favorite medium but now its acrylics and watercolors.
Thank you! I’d love to get better at watercolor and acrylic:)
Great video, thank you so much. Great challenge for me as a beginner yet not too dumbed down!
thank you, it's good to hear this was useful for you:)
Just what I needed. It’s been many years since I’ve drawn anything - camera work and music took over - but I recently lost my dog, aged almost 13, and would really like to be able to make a decent stab at drawing him. I know it won’t be great but it’s me remembering him. Back to basics…Thanks.
So glad I could help you out! Sorry to hear about your dog, creating an artwork in memory is a great idea!
this video tutorial is really helpful! I also use a scratch paper underneath my hand I use in drawing to avoid unintentionally smudging the drawing while working on the other parts. Love this video ❤️
I am really glad it helped you out, I know what you mean and I still manage to get graphite on my hands 😂thanks for watching!
Very informative she has a video for every of my questions!
So glad to hear that☺️
You are a Great teacher ! I'm so happy to see that people take time to leave you nice comments and thumb-up! Not all TH-cam channel have that chance! cause I watch many many of them ...in the past 06 months.......There is something about you ! You also take the time to answer your fans.....and I think people apreciate! People like you a lot! Bravo! 💐
Thank you!! I'm happy my channel has benefited you:) Answering comments is the most fun part of having a channel for me! Thank you for leaving so many kind comments already😊I really appreciate your support!
Thank you for this! Super informative for someone who is fairly new!
aw I'm glad, thank you for watching😃
Thank you so much for this it really helped!! I’ll make sure to check out part 2 :)
So glad it helped you out☺️ thank you!
Thank you sooo much. Excellent instruction and illustrations...
Glad to hear it helped you out:) thank you for watching!
very nice teaching sister, im new to this but your teaching is on spot so far, i'm a 59 year old man , trying to learn different talents thanks for the lesson's
thank you so much!
This was the most needed one! I was struggling how to draw realistically! And this guide will definetely help! Thank you for making such an organised and informative video:)😊
Peeyush Guru thank you, I’m so glad I can help ! I’ve been meaning to do a basic drawing series with graphite and maybe charcoal too!
This video was extremely helpful! Thank you so much! By the way, that pear you drew and shaded looked amazing ️ ☺️
So glad it helped you out! And thank you😊❤️
very good explanation and examples - one of the bests
So glad it could help you out!
Very nice video! You explained it so well and showed it amazingly
Gina ́sArtCorner thank you Gina💙 I was meaning to do a vid like this:)
Thank you so much for this tutorial!
you're welcome and I'm glad this helped you out:)
Jus subbed, this vid was extremely helpful esp with the circle on how to properly hold a shading pencil, I was making the mistake on the first circle, thank you sooo much!!
I’m so glad I could help, thanks for watching and subbing!😊😊
Very very instructive. Thanks a lot.
thanks for watching:)
I love your vids, helpfull as always!
Liza Loconte thank you so much! That’s so sweet😊💙
It was so satisfying watching the circles be shaded in super sped-up footage! Very hypnotic, lol. Your graphite skills are excellent. That pear! 👌
Becky Tregear Art aww thank you Becky! It is much more fun than watching the circles get shaded in real time😂 and graphite was the first medium I ever worked with:)
Really helpful. Thanks! ✊🏾💓
I'm glad! thanks for watching!
Very useful 👌👍
The video simplified sketching. Thanks
Thanks i have mainly only use the hb so I will try some of the others in my set. Thanks 😊 stay safe
Terry Dockery thank you, same to you! I definitely recommend trying out the other pencils especially the higher B values:)
It's a very beautiful and wonderful drawing! I think your work is very special and wonderful. I learned a lot about how to draw. I watched it till the end while learning.
LZD ART thank you so much ! That is so kind and I’m really happy you were able to learn something out of it
Omg thank you for your tips...... Im a new subscriber❤️❤️♥️
thanks soo much for watching and subbing! I am glad this helps!💙
Great job. Keep it up. Excellent tutorial
Thank you so much!😊
Thank you thank you so much this helped me so much, and i also did my first real drawing!!!!
I'm so happy to hear that!! Thank you for watching
Side note- I love your shirt 🤍!! Your handwriting is so gooood!! The speed ups of the shading is so satisfying to watch 😍! I need to make this scale for my pencils- I just grab and go 🤣. You need to be an art teacher!! Value scales 😍😍!! Blending out graphite is sooo relaxing to me. The pear already looks 3-D 🤩! I don’t usually blend with a tissue- though seeing you use it- it works really well 🙌🏻!! Never thought about graphite as a powder 😯- good point! The crosshatching gave the stem a nice texture 💗!! AMAZING info art queen 👏🏻💖
Kari Beth aw thank you!! You can’t see on camera but it’s actually a dress😱 I love tiny floral print lol. The shading is definitely a lot more fun to watch sped up😂 I don’t mention in this vid but a more eco friendly way to shade is a good paintbrush instead of a tissue, although the brush has to be the right shape haha I need a new one. I’m glad you like the pear and omg cross hatching is so fun! IMO it’s the most fun way to shade😂💙
Great video! I always found the thicker, blunter tortillons hard to work with for both charcoal and pencil. The narrower ones that taper more are charmed (at least for me), because I can get more blending edge on the paper and they soften overtime acting a bit like the Q-tip but with a better grip in the hand. I guess there is a “breaking in” stage to these 😁
Ahh yes the blunter ones I usually call "blending stumps" and they really are stumps! Tortillons definitely don't last forever, but longer than a q-tip and allow to get into finer details! thanks for watching
Very nice and clear.
Glad to hear :)
I'm really proud of my pear and the pages I did while I followed this!! I would pause it and have something going in the background while I practiced techniques last night and this morning I finished with the pear! Thank you so much, this was great!
I'm so glad to hear that! I wanted this video to be accessible and informative at the same time haha. Good luck with your art journey and thanks for watching!
@@AlexisCassandraArt thank you!
This was Helpful, an Yes I wld like to see more Videos about Graphite..!! 👊😎
Bruce Nunn Thank you, I’m happy you found this useful😊
Great video. Thank you.
thanks for watching and I'm glad it helped you out!
Girl your soo BEAUTIFUL!! 😍😍
Aw that is very sweet, thank you❤
Very Detailed video!👍🏻
I Love the way you explain everything , especially when you said that we don't have to buy the whole set 🙂
Love from India🇮🇳
I’m glad you found it useful:) thanks for watching!
Awesome miss I loved it ❤️
glad to hear that:) thank you
Please do more graphite videos. That was awesome.
thank you, I am glad this one was helpful:)
Thanks so much for sharing this, I'm just now getting back into drawing, use to draw way back in the mid to late '70's but switch to music, been playing guitar since 1974 & have been playing professionally & still am & enjoy it, but the music industry is soooo far down in the toilet it's sad!!! But this I like, you ROCK girl, I just subbed to your channel and will support it!!! Stay safe, Rock On & God Bless!!!
Thank you so much for subbing! I’m glad you’ve gotten back into drawing, it’s really fun and rewarding! I am no musician but I also love rock music! I actually plan to do some portraits of famous band members in the upcoming year:) I drew Jimi Hendrix earlier this year and Elvis a couple years back😄
Thank you! I was struggling to make the graphite smooth T^T
It’s a learning process:) I’m glad I could help💜
Use hard over soft for a much less synthetic "blend"
Good idea!
Nice tips! I’m starting to draw with graphites pencils !
Ooh thats great to hear! I hope you enjoy them:)
@@AlexisCassandraArt yes , I’m documenting in video , i got some new material and testing. I’m a newbie!
I ordered graphite pencils and I don't know how to use and i find this video this is very helpfull and thankyou very much
thank you, i am glad you found it helpful!!
Very nice video
thanks sooo helpful
I'm glad it helped:)
Thank you so much for this guide.. very informative.. really like your shading of that fruit :D
jayson casingal thank you!! I’m happy the pear demo helped😊
@@AlexisCassandraArt yeah A lot! :D thank you!
I have been using graphite for as long as i can remember, but until recently.... i have been all about the HB pencil lol no others. So i bought my first actual set of graphites last year... i get it now! Haha but my confidence needs building. So thank you for this!! Very informative & u presented it in an easy to understand way so kudos!! *subscribed*
HB pencils are a good start when you’re just sketching! But having that range of B values really helps when you want to shade a drawing! I’m so glad this vid helped you out and thanks for watching☺️
Nice video!
thank you!
Nice summary 👍☺️
thank you!
Wow really Wonderful!😊🌹you are very talented! Liked & Subbed!
ANOOP ARTWORK thank you so much💙
Wowwww!!!!!! Amazing 🤩🤩🤩🤩👌👌👌👌👌👌👌💯💯💯💯💯
Art and Craft Drawing thanks so much !😊💙💙
Thanks ☺️💯
Thanks for watching!
it was totally helpful to me . i took a workshop and wanted to focus on shading but did not have the right pencil.
I’m so glad it helped! Check out part 2 for more basics like this☺️ and thanks for watching!
Thank you for your information 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
thank you😊
This is very helpful, I bought graphite pencils by accident and I didn't know what to do with them lol thank you!!
yay I'm glad I could help haha! Thanks for watching:)
Thank you for the video
Thanks for watching, I am happy its useful to you:)
I like it 😊
Great editing and stuff I mean Visual demo Sync with script and all.
Thank you:)
you have so beautiful handwriting😍😍
thank you so much:)
New subscriber here from the Philippines 😊
Thank you for subscribing💙
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Excellent ...nice drawing! I hope you will success in the future
Let's grow together and stay connected
Wuviart Easy Drawings thank you so much💙💙
nice video ..👍👍👍
Wawan Hdt thank you💙
You can use a brush for some propose. Nice video
Yes, good point! thanks for watching
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Thanks for showing me how to use that kind of pencils because I'm new at drawing and I got a set of pencils today. So I needs a lot of learning to do. I was just wondering do you use the same pencils for drawing out what you wants to draw or do you use another pencil to do that with?
Hey, thanks for dropping by my video! For sketching something out, I just use one of those cheap mechanical pencils because they don't need to be sharpened and you can lightly sketch all the details haha. Some people will tell you not to, but I really don't think it matters in the end! Good luck with your new pencils:)
if you wanna go dark I recommend Staedtler Mars Lumograph black 8b, which I believe is graphite-charcoal mixed.
But for most of my drawings I only use 4B-4H. Another thing is that if you find out you can't go any darker with the current pencil, you just go for a harder grade and keep shading. That means, if you are shading with a 4b and the paper got too slippery, you go for a 2b and you can make it darker. That's how I found out some of the graphite drawings actually went as dark as a charcoal work
Thank you, I actually had that recommendation quite a lot and ended up trying out the staedtler pencils last month:) I got the graphite pencils(12b darkest) and the mars, and I really do like them! I’m a fan of incorporation charcoal and carbon into my graphite work as well. And thanks, I will remember that tip to use a harder grade pencil when that happens. I never thought of it before!💙
@@AlexisCassandraArt I know right? It sounds counterintuitive to keep darkening with a harder pencil, but it’s because when the paper got too slippery with graphite, a soft pencil would not leave a trace, but a harder one will.
very informative for people needing help with graphite 😀 yeah only use a finger to blend if its all you have, leaves oils on the paper and possibly lunch too if you haven't cleaned your hands 😛
fuzzydragons thank you!! I definitely am guilty of using my finger to blend back in my first sketchbook. It’s so tempting but not the best way to blend😂
its just so easy to forget and use our fingers to blend, especially if we are being lazy that day lol.
Tnxxx
Thanks
Thank you !
Some of the term are totally new for me, like hatchin and cross hatchin..
kyng xyno good to know, it is something I could go more in depth with!
I own the Castle Art 12 set of pencils. (Btw, thanks for the tutorial)
thats awesome! How do you like them? And you're welcome, thanks for watching! :)
@@AlexisCassandraArt they are good but at the same time I don't have anything else to compare them to sooo.....(I can make any pencil work)
Thank you I need help making a bird look more realistic I have the shape but the my project looks muddy help!
Do you have enough highlights and shadows? Some areas can be left super white as highlights and others can be very dark. I find that if you add too much midtone sometimes you get a muddy look! Or it could be overblending
A good graphite black pencil would be Mars lumigraph black I keep a 2b and 8b to supplement my graphite set. I notice we both use the same erasure :) I love that little thing. However, I think one concept you missed would be paper quality which is probably the most important part of any graphite work.
I love that eraser too! I think I need to make an updated video on paper qualities as well
Very useful tutorial..succes for you
thanks so much:)
Thank you, could you do some different pine trees 🌲 in graphite I have 1 down well 🌲 but others I have trouble with
Oh and lake pond edges to define the water
Ooh that’s not something I’ve done with graphite before(I have a watercolor video on it)! But yeah that’s a great idea
@@AlexisCassandraArt thank you for responce. I appreciate it.
Very nice but can you make a video on realistic eye
Hi, thank you!💙 I need to do an updated one for sure. But here is my latest realistic eye video: th-cam.com/video/pZBj94H98jQ/w-d-xo.html
Alexis, I'm an oil and acrylic artist. I have never used pencils. I purchased a set of graphite andpencils
That's awesome! I don't have skills with a paintbrush. My mom used to acrylic paint all the time though!
I have a question, how do you properly hold a pencil on it's side to shade? I'm holding it at a weird angle and not sure if I'm doing it right. Does practicing help me get a better understanding on how to use my graphite pencils?
However you like to hold it:) This method is basically just to eliminate streaky shading or pressing too hard with your pencil and therefore having to sharpen more often. You don't need to angle your pencil too much to the side, just as much as you need to get the result you desire:) Practice definitely will give you an understanding of how you like to use them and you will be more comfortable with them!
Which paper strength did you use? Thanks for the tips.
for graphite, you actually dont need it to be as thick. This video is pretty old but now looking back, I think I would say at least around 120 gsm or over. While graphite works fine on thinner paper, I opt for paper to be a little thicker for the sake of preserving the artwork (thinner paper tends to rip, maybe crunch or fold over time)
Hi, Thanks for the awesome info can you please tell me what paper should I use for hyper realistic graphite pencil drawings
Hello, it is really up to personal preference but I have a video all about popular paper comparison thats up on my channel! :) I also recently tried strathmore 500 bristol vellum paper, in my latest video I used it to draw a crocodile with graphite and charcoal, and its my new favorite paper for graphite/charcoal. It has some tooth(not completely smooth) but the texture isnt too noticeable or annoying. Stay clear of sketch paper that is really thin because it won't take a lot of layers which makes it hard to create a realistic graphite drawing:)
@@AlexisCassandraArt Thanks a lot for your time answering me, I am a construction Engineer and got in love with your realistic drawings, I can draw beautiful buildings lol, an I have recently used the Strathmore Bristol vellum series 300 for realist drawings and I didn't like it because of it's tooth as it gets very difficult to blend or may be I am not that professional to be able to blend, so I am going towards using the smooth surfaces.
@@KINGMKFH that is really awesome :) it takes a lot of patience to draw architecture. In your case I definitely agree that smooth surface will be best to get even lines, and it works well with fine liner too if you plan on inking your lines at some point :)
@@AlexisCassandraArt You are absolutely right I will share my first realistic drawing with once done will difenitly need your comments and guidance on it if you not mind. :)
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pls make some more about where do you need to shade
Like following the highlights and shadows in a reference photo? I will have to follow up with some more graphite videos!
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I have taken up graphite drawing after a long absence. You seem quiet young to be so accomplished. To what extent do you think you were born to be an artist and to what extent were you taught?
That's great you are taking it up again! I think I've always enjoyed art, but it's been about nine years now of me taking it more seriously. So since my skill level has obviously improved a lot from so much practice its hard to tell! I will say I may have had an inclination though- my mom was also interested in art when she was younger and she was a great acrylic painter!
Can anyone tell me how to highlight on graphite pencil drawing cause I just can't do it if I am using any white pencil it just does not work.
With graphite, you want to leave your main highlights light on the paper to begin with. If you want to add bright highlights later, you can use a kneaded eraser to lift some graphite up! Or for small details the tombow mono zero eraser works great. A white pencil won’t do the trick with graphite though
im new at graphite and i like drawing when I was a kid and like my drawing skills like 10/100 bc I'm really new at graphite u know
I know what you mean, its a learning curve at first but keep at it! :)
How do you know where to put the shadows?
I would use a reference photo and then edit it so its grayscale and you can clearly see where the shadows are! They're usually at the bottom or mainly on one side where not much light is hitting, but it also depends on where the light source is coming from:)
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How long did it take to make and shade the pear?
Maybe an hour or a little longer!
I am really just trying to mediums, as an intermediate artist I find doing graphite art to be a bit difficult as I’m used to doing inking.
Ah yes it's always difficult using a different medium, I'm not particularly great at inking! I hope you found this vid helpful:)
I have a question. Is there a specific order of pencils that you sketch in? (B-h, h-b) I’m a beginner and struggling.
I actually don’t use them in a particular order, just that I build up shading mostly with B range pencils. HB is a good pencil for super light shading or sketching:) the H range is a little too hard for me so I don’t use as often. B and 2B are great to use to first mark in shadows. As you play around with them you’ll figure out which ones you like to use most often, but I end up using 8B a lot for the dark shadows:) hope this helps
i like to use my 5H pencil when sketching so it is lighter and i don't have to slightly erase my sketches
Good tip
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that is super smart. the H range in the faber castell set is so light that I don't use them much, I'm going to try using them for sketching instead
I have all 12 graphite pencils and 3 charcoal pencils and a grapite soft 6B and i dont know how to use the graphite soft 6B pls help me
Do you mean a graphite stick 6B? I don't normally use graphite sticks, but you can use them to make graphite powder if you'd like to! I sometimes use a paintbrush with graphite powder
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