there is no rickroll on this one... just don't look at the layers 0:29 I make digital art, mostly digital paintings. Follow me here: Instagram: / ronillust Twitter: / ronillust
@@vibethecat4194 drawing with a mechanical pencil?? I only do that if I’m in school and I’m really lazy not to get my wood pencils. I can’t imagine drawing in mechanical edit: if you’re gonna say how much you love your pencils, please tell me the brand/product so I can buy them. stop making me jealous;-;
@@mrpenis3625 you'd be surprised by how time saving it is. seriously, theres some pretty good mechnical ones out there that dont require refilling or any of that jazz, like a pen but just with lead instead of ink.
0:26 "Sharpening a pencil with a blade let's you expose more of the graphite than by using a sharpener which gives you more options when gripping it. This could be better for your wrist as you don't have to rely on it for repetitive movements. It all depends on your preference though, sharpeners are still safer and more convenient. When sharpening remember to move the blade away from your body and don't put your finger in the way of the blade. Be slow and patient when shaving the wood away. If you are a child (or just stuck at sharpening lol) ask for adult help." Hope this helps
i would literally cry if i broke that thing (personal experience of trying to sharpen like that) F to pay respects FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
I keep my digital workflow very basic because I'm too lazy to play with all the tools and it saves me the time and sanity that goes into keeping the pencil sharp, erasers that are imprecise, leave marks and a tone of dust to clean up and redrawing everything because you messed up small thing.
@@muddashucka9743 That depends on how you hold your pencil. If you hold it at a slant, you can still get thicker lines and then thinner lines when you rotate the pencil or hold it more vertically. The effect is definitely more noticeable with thicker lead though. The hardness of the lead in mechanical pencils is almost always HB though and shading dark areas with that isn't as easy as using a 6B pencil or something.
There are mechanical pencils with thicker leds that you can sharpen like a regular pencil. I mostly use sandpaper for that because its faster. They are the perfect hybrid between regular pencil and mechanical pencil. I can highly reccomend those for any traditional artist
I have a 1.0 mm lead mechanical pencil! It's absolutely perfect and even came along with a compact sharpener on top. The thing pretty safe for hard gripping which i tend to do a lot.
In all honesty, the only reason why I prefer traditional art is that it is way more fluid, relaxing and impressive when you achieve something smooth and realistic, that and I do not own a digital pencil
Long lead like a pro: take two fingers, index and middle to measure from the tip of the pencil. Start sharpening from that distance. First, don't start the sharpening like you're whittling a stick. Make bigger indents, and go up. Do not try to get to the tip yet. Made some uneven indents around the pencil? Now you can start treating the rest of it to the tip. But do not go downards yet, try to carefully sharpen parallel to the pencil, taking long strips of wood off without tilting downards to the tip. This is important. Done? Now, you can finally sharpen the tip. You can leave around half a finger to a full finger of lead as you sharpen normally, depending on the softness of the lead. (Leave more wood for 6B, leave less wood for 2B, etc. (I think?)) Congrats, you now have a good pencil primed for sketching. Now all you gotta do is stare at a blank page after all this careful sharpening and be consumed by "the blank dread". Don't worry, this is normal.
Depends what you draw, art teachers give alot of bad advice aswell, only part where i see a mechanical pencil would give you trouble is if youre doing realistic portraits
@@g76agi all I know how to do is draw semi realistic portrait drawings with mechanical pencils myself 😂 I'm currently trying to learn how to color in a face with colored pencils tho.
The thing I like about my traditional style is that it benefits from no shading. But the thing I like about my digital style is that I can color a lot better. Pencils are still a struggle, and so is trying to get lighting right. There's no winning
Traditional allows me to view the canvas in 3D, rotating it, getting closer, holding it up at weird angles. Digital allows me to do most of that stuff too... but in the end it's all still a screen.
I like digital art for when I want to render something out very detailed. I prefer traditional for practicing and getting lots onto the page in a shorter amount of time (because I'm not spending all my time hitting undo and stressing over a single line)
I agree, but I hate coloring, it’s the hardest part related to traditionally drawing and I thought about trying to color digitally but I think I just want to learn how to improve my skills on real paper (I just personally don’t like the idea of transferring my art onto something digital) and like you said once you master or complete it you feel accomplished
While my entire art class was sharpening pencils like that, I just used a sharpener and never needed more since we'd use charcoal over it. Still a mechanical pencil supremacist. If I need a pencil feel, I rely on a thicc lead based one, and exposing the lead couldn't be easier. Is admittedly a bit pretentions for a beginner, but I sold my soul for graphite and lost all potential for painting so win/win.
I have the inverse problem. with traditional i gather my materials and just go but with digital I get caught up trying to get the settings and workspace right then struggling with color selection as I'm used to color mixing with paints that mix oddly and so you just kinda memorize them like recipes as opposed to hue values
I bought a super budget tablet years ago and then realised I didn't want to learn the software :'^) haven't used it for anything except putting in dialogue bubbles in CSP ever since
That's why I never sharpen my pensil, nope! Even if it's super dull and my friends would be mad at that cause how annoying it looks but the results looks pleasing though, so I don't mind. Ok but sometimes I do or If I'm too lazy too just replace it with some other pencil I found on the floor lol.
Yeah I do that too because sometimes if the pencil is too sharp, the effect isn’t as nice or you want to erase but it’ll leave a mark cause it’s so pointy. I love my slightly nubby pencils
Honestly thought it was going to be about making a minor mistake and having a mental breakdown because you can still faintly see the mistake even after erasing it for three minutes
traditional artist is usually more skilled because they don't use multiple layer, undo, mirror tool or stretching their drawing using transformative tool, and they actually spends more money to create their art because traditional art are not cheap, because they need variety of pencils, drawing pens, and many brushes and color palettes, also canvas is not cheap.
Hey @ronillust, you're a funny person and a good artist. You should do an extended drawing video, unedited and uncut with whatever comments or advice come to your head!
Traditional is kinda better - has the *feel* behind it, y'know. Not to mention, the preparations may take forever, but the actual process goes much faster than you'd expect when you start :)
Yeah i also felt that, i did some random drawings and ended up looking like half-done shaded drawings (and somewhat strange, i can't even draw a circle in digital without it looking off)
Hard disagree. Feel of it is overrated and anxiety of fucking everything up with a tiny mistake slows me down a lot. Then erasing, resharpening the pencil, erasing some more. I pick up my tablet and I can doodle a character right away without any worry about it looking bad. If it does, I can resketch or fix it with a fraction of effort.
@@crystal_shine-b3n Everyone always say that they miss the feeling of paper but to me it's just more rough and crumbly surface. Nothing special compared to the screen.
I actually sharpened a pencil with a scalpel once because I couldn’t find the sharpener and ended up producing the most demented artwork I’ve ever made
That fear of traditional art.. When you finish the thing but something, just something's not quite right, so you just stare sadly at what was suppose to be a masterpiece in your head.
I can’t digital art as I get eye fatigue after as little as 5 min. Screen time. And I can sharpen a pencil way faster than that. So where have you been? I have been on RU-vid for ages under one screen name or the other but you have never been in my feed. Sad because your videos are hilarious.
That's why i never sharpen a pencil that much even though you should. The default pencil sharpener works for me just fine. And i mainly use mechanical pencil with everything so...
Any traditional artist would tell ya that's NOT the way sharpen a pencil. Your first mistake was picking up a normal pencil at all! 😂 You pick up the 0.5 mechanical pencil and then sharpen it from there with an extra scrap paper!
Any traditional artist would say draw with whatever the fuck you want as long as it leaves a stain in the fucking paper it works, but guess we got different standards for what a God damn artist is supposed to advice to his pupils.
0:17 "sharpening a pencil with a blade lets you expose more of the graphite than by using a sharpener which gives you more options when gripping it. this could be better for your wrist as you dont have to rely on it for repetitive movements. it all depends on your preference though, sharpeners are still safer and more convenient. when sharpening, remember to move the blade away from your body and dont put your finger in the way of the blade. be slow and patient when shaving the wood away. if you are a child (or just suck at sharpening lol) ask an adult for help" hope this helped for anyone that finds this comment
