BEST Technique for AMAZING Realistic Graphite Drawings 

Hey Guys! I hope you enjoy the video :) Let me know if you have tried out this technique before? Thanks for your likes, shares, comments and subscribes

kirsty. i am living paycheck to paycheck. i hardly have any money to spare and the money i do have goes to car insurance, food, and whatnot. i wanted to attend an art course but could never find one within my strictly limited price range. i was crying by myself one day with a stupid, old sketchbook in my lap because i was SO frustrated that i wasn't doing 'good enough' to afford a class that i needed. i went to youtube to watch a video my little sister had sent me, and one of your videos was a recommended video underneath the link i was on. i loved the cover photo, so i clicked on it and watched. i hope you know that ever since then, i've been using your videos as a literal bible for my art instruction. thank you so much for being so generous with your gifts and techniques; i don't think i'd still be doing art without your channel. you've given me so much courage to KEEP PRACTICING and one day i know that i will be confident enough to share my art with others. thank you so much, kirsty. i don't think i can thank you enough. so much love ♥️

such good advice! I remember my art teacher always used to tell use the eraser is a drawing tool, not a correction tool :) love it!

I love how detailed you are. Some artist just draw time lapse and call it a day. I love that you are not selfish to share some tips and tricks. ♥️

I've done this before with my Prismacolor erase pencil in gray and a regular #2 pencil and I've done this with a black Crayola pencil and graphite pencil. It's a very nice technique and it is fun your picture came out beautiful

Fab drawing Kirsty, love your vids! The best advice i’ve learned from you is to not be afraid of going too dark. It makes such a difference to your drawing and really makes it stand out. Thanks! 👍

Beautiful work! I love the way it came out, thanks for sharing this.

Excellent video!!! I love your Patreon site. Thank you for all your help.

Your art is amazing and you are SO good at teaching. I love your channel.

Kirsty you are a fantastic artist, that dog looks so cute, you are so informative and so knowledgeable and a big thank you so much for sharing 😉😘

I do black & white graphite portraits and use a black polychromos for the super dark areas and I love the technique so much

Beautiful work on this stunningly detailed peace! 😁😄😀😃😍😘💓

Thanks for showing this technique, I’m going to try it. Great drawing!

You have just solved all of my problems. Thank you for this video!

You're my accelerator, there's no stopping us now, we're all the way up!

Beautiful work

Hi Kirsty - I have a suggestion for you. If you do not have one already, please try one of the Derwent Pencil Company "Onyx" pencils. It is the darkest black I have ever seen on a pencil ✏️. It lays down so easy, is beautiful & easy to use, lasts for ages, and is relatively cheap. I was given a set for Derwent's pencils for Christmas by my husband which included one of these Onyx pencils & I was so surprised by exactly how "bottomless abyss" black it was. I thoroughly recommend trying it to anyone, it's amazing. (And before you ask - no, I don't work for Derwent. I just think if you find something that works brilliantly, you should let others know !). Thanks for the great videos you do - they make me actually get of my arse and draw and paint because I am so motivated after watching them !

I would love to see more videos like this I am trying to get started back to drawing with pencil.

its just amazinggggggg video, and the graphite drawing is just spectacular amazing art drawing

As with all your work, amazing! Really hoping you will do many more tutorials like this, using graphite and polychromos black pencil. Super stoked to be a Patreon supporter for your page!

I clean my tombow eraser tip on an emery board which also has the added bonus of being able to get a good sharp point on it.

Absolutely fantastic piece of artwork! It indeed looks much better than the reference image, keep up the great work! PS: I love your accent!

First, thanks a lot for this amazing and inspiring video.. And second from my side, I have never tried out this technique but soon I will if I get the chance.

I lov this 🥰 grafit and color pencils

Watching the black poly shrink was rather satisfying 😂😂

Wow! Great job!!😄😁👌

I would like to see more videos about drawing realistically with graphite pencils :)

Thanks for another great, informative video. I appreciate your videos more than I can express. :)

i have done lots of graphite, but I haven't tried with the colored pencil, i think I need this because my art isnt the darkness I need in areas and I end up with a shine from trying to get a darker color. Thanks for this tutorial, it will definately help me!!

I don't know how you can be patient to do that with all the details etc.. Your are a Very good artist and I love your work !

Fantastic video, I’d love to see more animal portrait related videos. ✨

Amazing, learning a lot already!

Your very good. I have tons of trouble making eyes realistic.

Really nice.. Its looking much better than the pic...!!!

Graphite is great to use with coloured pencils, excellent work 😁try it with charcoal as well, love this type of drawing looks brilliant

This is amazing! and awesome 😃👍

Great tips Thanks

Thank you for the video❤❤❤❤

The dog drawing is exceptional!!!

Hi. Very nice work. I will try this technice thanks for share. I would like to see tips to make a realistic portrait

I would love to see videos about painting flowers 🌺 in colored pencils. Kind regards

Such beautiful work. I always have trouble with getting things like ears and nose and wrinkles to look like they are rounded. As in from the sharing in the nostril to up and out of the nostril. And deep in the ear and ask the rounded areas to lighter parts

I've always hated that shiny effect of dark graphite too. I thought about using a black coloured pencil but never did. think I will give it a go in future.

I never actually thought about doing this before and I think I'll give it a shot. I always use charcoal or a carbon pencil for my darkest areas in a graphite drawing, and while it helps with contrast it is REALLY messy, easy to smear and sometimes difficult to get fine detail with. Then I have to seal it pretty good with fixative after or it'll make a mess wherever I store it. Not sure why exactly it never occurred to me to just use a black colored pencil instead hahah

Amazing work! Also I'd like to see more videos about techniques when drawing realistic portraits - mostly women - in graphite (b/w);) Keep the good work going!

Love u kirsty❤❤❤❤❤

I love your art 💝

Thanks for sharing, very helpful :-)

Hi Kirsty. I'm really enjoying watching both your Art channel and Vlogs. Do you use HB lead in your mechanical pencil?

You might want to try Wolff carbon pencil. One pencil to do it all but compatible with graphite and matte finish as well. Nevertheless if you already have the colored pencil, then this technique works well too.

You might want to try a toga kuru pencil. It rotates as you draw so you never get hat flat edge, your pencil is always sharp.

Amazing artwork and great tips thank you. I noticed how smaller the black pencil was getting, did it run out quicker than other pencils you use? Pls do more dog videos, I loved this one

Very informative

Wonderful, full of clear technique instructions! Not boring at all. Thank you. Just wondering Kirsty if you have ever used silicon colour shapers instead of stumps? I haven't yet but I hear they work well so thinking I may buy a couple of them. I imagine they would be ideal for colours like pencil crayon and pastel since you just wipe off the tips but I have seen graphite artists use them, too.

Thanks for making me better than my art teacher

YES PLEASE MORE TUTORIALS😍 btw How can I get my sketch more accurate because I mentioned that everytime I look at my result it does look realistic, but doesn't look like the person in the picture😭😭🤔😅

What is the white pencil you use that draws over the black? This is extraordinary work thank you for sharing it with us.

Hi! I’ve just subscribed to your channel and I wanted to say “Great Job!” I was also surprised that the Polychromos didn’t slide over the graphite. I wonder if you could use this method as a grisaille, or would lighter colours smudge the graphite?

Wonderful video on drawing fur. What grade lead are you using in your mechanical pencil?

I have a Derwent battery eraser, would this work on a drawing like this or would it be best to use the mono eraser you use. I always look forward to watching your you tube channel, then try out your technics. 😊

Have you ever used a carbon pencil with your graphite drawings? There really good, if you don't know there a mixture of graphite and charcoal so you can get really dark values without the shine, the only thing with them though is you can't draw on top of normal graphite with them so you have to use the carbon pencil first and your graphite pencils after so your drawing from dark to light which for me took a bit to get used to.

Cool

I would like your views on abstract art and more specifically on minimalistic art

What is your step by step way to set up a good detailed sketch? Lightbox or what program do you use on your computer to make the sketsch? I hope you will share this because i don’t like grids...

is this happens to anyone, when ever I use that shading bumps then I cannot add any more graphite shades..its becomes very smooth surface. hope I am clear enough

I always work with like max 3 pencils even if it's not for realism and it has the mechanical pencil involved at times yea

Hi Kirsy! Thanks for this tutorial! I wanna try this technique but im not sure which pencil i need to get. I can buy graphite, charcoal or faber castell polychromos for the black pencil. I wanna be comfortable with the pencil and i need it to stand out and look really dark so which one would you recommend?

Would this work with a Prismacolor black color pencil

Hi! Can you please do a review on Faber Castell Classic coloured pencils please,since they are literally the first pencils I‘ve ever used and I still use them for my art.

How long did other drawings of this size take you? And another question: You also recommended in another video about drawing realistic hair to draw section for section und traf of trying to draw all at once. I always struggle at finding these sections in short or even messy hair. Have you got any tips?

I think the black polychromos is the best black pencil there is :-)

**only 8 hrs....wow! one question, is it done in several sessions, like couple hours per day? or in one full 8 hour period?

Hey, could u do a video on how to get an accurate sketch of hair, bc I would like to know how to get more accuracy on drawing portraits, and getting all of the tiny details and curves that there are, I hope u understand what I'm say😂, but if it is possible,,I'm sure many ppl would like if you did a video like that, thnx!

Could you make a tutorial about how to make a good outline ? Techniques are nice, but a good outline is the basic of making a good drawing from the very beginning...

OMG!!! Nine hours. In how many days. Or was it done in one sitting?

How much lead did you end up using? I’m assuming you used quite a bit!

Holy sh!t are you good 😍😍😍

Blenders over graphite or charcoal?😄

Never tried this, how would it work with a white dog?

Less stuff on Patreon, put some on Udemy so they can buy the drawing tutorial for that subject. With subscription people can't afford to keep paying it where as Udemy they have the piece of mind a lifetime access to the course. You could do this whole drawing of the dog and sell it as one course. Better in the long run for you and the students. 30 million regular users are on Udemy and there aren't many courses like you can do. It's pay for Udemy courses as they are affordable but I wouldn't pay for Patreon. The reason people come to RU-vid is because it's free, the reason they go to Udemy is because it's within their budget and they can pick and choose as they like. If pay for your course on their Kirsty. Thank you though, I love watching you work, it explain things really well ☺

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What grade lead did you use for the mechanical pencil Kirsty😊?

for school I have to bring in a portrait of me I wish that she drew my portrait so I can give in that ;D

You should do a collab with another RU-vid called Superraedizzle

What about animals with short hair like Germany Shepard s

No red circles= no clickbait

I tried Ipicky.com and it seems to be a dodgy website, anyway, this is a beautiful work of art and so realistic.

Hi

Please make another realistic face of a girl tutorial using this technique! :)

The artwork is great, but I don't know if this counts as a 'graphite' drawing since literally half of the pencils you're using are( or 'is') coloured pencil(s) Like I said, it's a great artwork but maybe some issues with labelling and describing it

Please draw emma watson or voldemort from harry potter with graphite pencil because i dont have colour pencils...

Should of just drew Chewbacca....lol

But this is no longer a graphite drawing.. call me a purist, but its mixed media.