HOW TO USE GRAPHITE PENCILS FOR BEGINNERS PART 2 | Draw Realistically with Graphite 

Don’t forget to check out part 1 if you want to learn some more basics of graphite pencils!🤍

this isnt too long, you need all the information to use graphite. really great art examples to show 😀

Amazing video! Yesterday was my first day using graphite pencils and I’m going to try these ideas tomorrow! Thankyou :)

This was really helpful and I can't wait to watch again and try to follow along!

Graphite is so good for practicing and really helps to learn the value! Great tutorial and tips!

The water drops was great. Out of all the countless videos I’ve watched on drawing, this was the first to suggest this study. Thank you!!

Just starting out so enjoyed watching. I am a watercolorist co this will be very different for me. Thanks for your help. Look forward to seeing morefromyou.

Thank you for this! I actually wanted to start practicing with graphite again but I was afraid to do it but this video helped a lot!!

Hi Alexis, you are a very gifted person! Love to watch your techniques videos. Keep it up! Cheers.

Masterpiece as always

CREATIVE Teaching = CREATIVE Results. I've gotten more satisfaction doing this than the few beginner's Art classes taken so far. THANK YOU so Very Much for Sharing YOUR GIFT!

This is great thanks. Very useful for me just starting out.

Great video. Thanks for the tutorial once again

I'm practicing to use graphite and your video just pop. Thanks for this!❤

im drawing while watching you to learn the technique more, btw i watched the ads to help you out bc i really appreaciate the patience you have on shading stuffs UwU, im more of a watercolor artist but i wanna try out something new! thank youu very much UwU

Great!! as always!! :)

Thanks for sharing your talent 😁 I appreciate it. Keep up the good work. God bless you. Good day!

Very helpful. Thank you.

Great tutorial and information. I have only used graphite a few times but now I want start working with it again :)

If you havent seen my latest drawing, Comment What you think!

Great videos. The correct pronunciation of the word 'Foliage' is FO....LEE....AGE...not FOI...LAGE. the 'I' comes after the 'L'..not before. From one teacher to another. Keep up the good work.

Thay dont look like. Drops of eny thing af ever seen... en y is it everyone you erasers as pencils. Shuldant u get the affect with a pencil. Just putting it out ther good video. Bird tort me things. So big thanks🖼. En a like. 👍

Another part please

wow...amazing drawing ...i like it your all painting super friend. you are amazing talented friend ust supported you permanently please stay connected and grow together Thanks for sharing..

One big thing..you didn't say anything about switching out different pencils, I barely noticed you doing that. I am a newbie so I freaked out 🤪 this is 1st time to even buy them.

im not a subscriber but i hope your channel will grow bigger

should i start practicing with regular pencils first or directly start with shading pencils ?

To be specific, beginners simply don't need expensive or heavyweight paper to draw anything. Graphite sticks to graphite, and if even 80 gsm paper won't handle all the layers you need, then you're using way too much pressure when applying the layers. Just about any sketchbook has paper suited to anything in this video. Whether it's a Strathmore 80 gsm sketchbook, or Strathmore 100 gsm drawing paper, it's more than heavy enough. That's why they put such paper in the sketchbooks. Of course, Walmart's Pen Gear Sketchbooks or HP Premium 32 pound, acid and lignin free paper is extremely cheap, and even heavier than Strathmore sketchbook paper or drawing paper. As for tooth, that's a personal choice, but I know far more pro graphite artists who use the smoothest paper they can find than ones who want tooth. Strathmore Bristol Smooth is far more popular than Strathmore Bristol Vellum. As for the drops of water, I don't think that's a very good technique for making them look three dimensional. It can be used on tiny drops of water, but it just doesn't work well with large drops where there's room to do proper shading. If you look at a real drop of water on a flat surface, you should see a direction where the light source comes in, and unless that direction is always straight from above, you should also see three distinct shadows shadows, two on the side asway from the light, and one on the side of the light. A water drop has a shadow that corresponds with the level of the light source, and the height of the water drop, just as a solid sphere, cube, etc. does. It also has a shadow created by the transparency of the water, and a shadow on the light side created by the line of water where it meets the surface it's on. From the location of your highlight, the shadow on the non-light side should be much larger and more out away from the water drop, just as it would with a slid object. There should also be a separation of these two shadows, but that has to be seen. You can also add more of a 3-D effect by curving the highlight, just as you do inside an eye, and by making it much whiter. Normally, the entire surface of the drop, other than the highlight, should have some degree of shading, just as a solid sphere does. The difference is that the highlight on the water drop needs to have more pop that the highlight on a solid sphere. Otherwise, there isn't enough contrast to make the drop seem round, deep, and transparent. But it's the large shadow equivalent to the size of the drop, the proper shading on the drop, and the curve, the brightness, and the sharp edges of the highlight that make it look three dimensional. Maybe a better way to put it is that these things make it look ROUND. You get some 3-D, but they all look flat on top, like a transparent pancake.

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Sad to see that your poor little bird only has two front 'toes' on its left 'foot'. Maybe its mom married a woodpecker. Still love your videos.