You must have a great imagination to draw something like this. It's amazing how detailed it is. Congratulations, excellent job!
I have a new hobby, guys, collecting small, short, cute baby pencils.
Hahaha, this sounds funny but I'd love to see the outcome, the result :D I know someone who's making mandala painting and using paper cloth to clean his brushes and once he had framed that paper cloth and sold it. Can you imagine? :)
Anyway, I have to ask you something and please don't take it the wrong way, it's pure curiosity. Why are all artist sharpening their pencils with a knife? is that better is that an artist thing? Could never figure it out :)
Thank you, Erika!
The next step is to get it in photoshop and get some pixels wrecked...
I will definitely create an article the baby pencils.
For the sharpening... It depends on the purpose of the pencil, for example, you have an 8B pencil in your hand, really soft graphite. If you sharpen that with normal sharpener you will need to do it again in 5 minutes or less, especially if you put pressure on it to get darker values. Also, you get more coverage with knife sharpened pencils because the surface of the tip is longer. If you decrease the angle of the tip to the paper you get broader strokes. I use knife to shapen my soft graphite pencils, for hard pencils like 2H or H, I can use the normal sharpener cause we're not using these as much. Not all artists use a knife. Allen Williams uses the Boston sharpener. It's a personal thing. For now, this works for me, but if I get my hand on one of these Boston things I would definitely use it. :P
as you can see on the second picture, one of the pencils is not manually sharpened :P
I thought this is the case with the knife sharpening, it makes perfect sense but wasn't sure. Thank you for the detailed reply and looking forward to your article about the baby pencils :)
No problem, Erika!
Right now I have 5 baby pencils only. The collection will grow as my drawing stacks grow. So, i have to push myself i guess :P