It is exceedingly difficult to do the shading with pencils
Yesterday when I posted my first sketch of geese done with B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 7B and 8B Faber Castell pencils, @lildebbiecakes suggested I could try to draw a circle, a triangle, a rectangle and a square and apply different shadings with these pencils.
I tried it and found out it's so difficult to do properly.
So I need to practice doing it over and over and over again.
By the way, here is how smoothly @lildebbiecakes did it:
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The sketch looks pretty great
Thanks for the compliment!
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Don’t loose hope my friend, you did a terrific job for your first time! I see your having difficulties blending, so that the lines don’t show. Here’s a great tool to use for that, paper blenders. When I first started to draw with pencil, I used my fingers to blend, and found it way to messy, then I was shown these. I also have my kneaded eraser shown as well, you clean them by stretching them out and forming a ball again, and you keep doing that for awhile until all the graphite is kneaded into it. I’ve got some kneaded erasers that are years old, and the paper blenders last a very long time as well. Both items are very inexpensive. I hope you have great fun with your new art supplies, and I hope I didn’t suggest something that your sorry you bought my friend, good luck❣️
Thank you again, my dear friend! Your advice is very valuable...
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Yes, it is necessary to be able to draw with a pencil and to know how the shadow falls correctly, it is difficult, but you did well.
Thank you!
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