A very beautiful and realistic pencil drawing made with charcoal and graphite pencils
Hi steemians😊.
I bring to you a pencil drawing I made using charcoal and graphite pencils. It was really an amazing experience because the reference picture was good quality. A good quality picture helps an artist to achieve great outcome.
There is a way to enhance the quality of a picture using Remini incase you have a very bad picture to work with.
This piece is 20 inches by 24 inches which can also be written as 20"×24" and it was done with
- generals charcoal pencils
- soft graphite pencils
- tortillons or blending stump
- tombow mono zero Elastomer eraser
- kneaded eraser
- flat brushes, makeup brushes
- tissue paper
- Drawing board
- A clean sheet of small paper
The function of these materials are:
General's charcoal pencil: A chalky medium, used in drawing/shading dark tones and also to add dark details in drawing
Soft Graphite pencils: Used to draw outlines and also add shades in drawing
Tortillon/blending stump: a soft paper-like material used mainly for blending and to add details in drawing
Tissue paper: Used for blending
Soft flat brushes/makeup brushes: Used also for blending. The different textures of the brush gives different textures in the drawing
Tombow mono zero Elastomer eraser: used to clean unwanted part and also add highlights in drawing
Kneaded eraer: An eraser that can be folded to any shape, used also to add soft highlights and also clean unwanted parts in drawing
Paper: A base where we draw on. And about papers, the quality of paper matters, there are some that can hold our chalky medium more than others. But I most of the time make use of the pelican papers and bristol(strathmore) paper
A clean sheet of paper: This can be a very small sheet of paper that can be used to place our hands when drawing to avoid smudging our drawing.
Smudging is basically messing up our drawing with dirt's on our fingers. It can be dirt's from the oils on our hands or charcoal residue. Sometimes It is difficult to clean the dirt's off our drawings so it is best we avoid smudging our drawings.
I hope we all had fun reading through my publication. See you soon!!!
Thank you for such awesome work and that is interesting to learn what you use and what they are for. It is like listening during the Art lessons all pros and cons :)
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Thank you so much for the support and the encouraging words. I really appreciate this