What is this art tool really for? Drawing tips

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Stop using the sand block that comes in your drawing kit for this! You're ruining your shading stumps / tortillions! These are great tools for sharpening colored pencil, graphite and charcoal!
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@Lachri 2 года назад

How many of you were told in school to use hairspray on your art? :P

@morganart9418 2 года назад

Oh my god ! Hair spray on pastels... Yes me ... But it was 23 years ago ...

@Lachri 2 года назад

@@morganart9418 Yep, I was told the same but for charcoal and graphite too /facepalm

@elizabethvarnadoe420 2 года назад

Guilty of using hair spray to seal Elementary art student work. I used the cheap hairspray because my art budget did not cover fixatives.

@vermis8344 2 года назад

Yup, pastels!

@bradcook1537 2 года назад

Yup, I sprayed hair spray on pastels. They werent great drawings to begin with though

@NaomiCoutureArt 2 года назад

Oh my gosh this was hilarious! Please do more like these, I like all your videos but I almost spit my water out at the end 😂

@Lachri 2 года назад

LOL

@catherinefranks2146 2 года назад

I use it to grind my charcoal sticks into powder. Then, I use a paint brush with the powder to shade.

@Lachri 2 года назад

That works great too!

@eoslove2022 2 года назад

You are full of surprises, totally didn’t expect you to have your lawn mower in the kitchen. Lol 😂

@Lachri 2 года назад

Neither did my husband 😂😂😂😂😂

@JulieStones 2 года назад

That end needs to be a clip of its own. So great!

@ladydruuna 2 года назад

When i first bought oil pastels i also bought a paper stump set including that sandpaper-stick cause so many tutorials on youtube recommended it (i don't use them for blending my oil pastels anymore, i use them for charcoal now) and every single tutorial: "If you want to clean it or want to have a pointy tip again, just use this sandpaper" So i did and was so sad that all the paper stumps were basically ruined and unusable anymore after doing so. So i thought: "Maybe i'm doing it wrong?" Some research later: You DO NOT use sandpaper on paperstumps. Lesson learned, new stumps bought and i use the sandpaper for sharpening my charcoals now :D It is just sad that so many tutorials out there are just copy pasted and so many basically tell you to ruin your art supplies, even if they are cheap. Nobody likes to throw away cash. Quality content as usual, love your videos ♥

@joshuagurule2171 2 года назад

That mower probably worked great on the shag carpet in the 70s lol

@djhadaverde 2 года назад

I'm currently studying illustration and that's just what my teacher said to use as a cheap option to seal our works... 😂 Your are SO RIGHT! This video made me laugh, it's hilarious! Thanks :)

@junbug1029 2 года назад

I was taught to use it on my pencils. We learned, back in the early 70s, to sharpen our drawing pencils with an exacto knife. Fortunately I still have all of my fingers intact 😜 Now I use a regular pencil sharpener.

@Lachri 2 года назад

Haha, an exacto knife is great for those who aren't prone to stabbing themselves. I am not skilled enough myself 😂

@Tser 2 года назад

I often sharpen my colored pencils with a knife. Especially the softer ones, for the same reason as using the sandpaper; I just lose less pencil that way!

@adamghost6090 Год назад

I love the example at the end. It really solidified the point

@MaryPrasadArt 2 года назад

I use blending stumps for colored pencil and solvent as well as graphite/charcoal. If the tip becomes frayed I use a pair of fine sharp scissors to gently remove the fray.

@vinthecartoonist6878 2 года назад

Jazza should watch this video now!

@ChristinaTodd1970 2 года назад

Priceless!

@martinr4940 2 года назад

In old school drafting the sandpaper blocks are used to sharpen the pencil lead used in compasses.

@DollyTheLlama 2 года назад

Somewhere in the house I'm living in is a portfolio full of drawings I did in junior and high school, all yellowed from a nice even coat of my mother's White Rain hair spray. lol I love my dirty blending stumps! I'm guilty of deliberately dirtying them up and using them instead of pencil for a soft and even look. If I need one relatively clean for detailed blending, I'll just flatten out my kneaded eraser and roll the blending stump over it.

@emmadonaghyart1954 2 года назад

Mystery solved! Finally the world knows what they are used for! Thank you Lisa :-)

@kathypaulus2082 2 года назад

That was good - as a pastel artist I just save all my tortillions or stumps by color - use them over and over again! And I use the sand paper to sharpen my pastels - i also use regular sand paper fine cut up in smaller squares to sharpen my pencils - love your ending Lisa!!

@Lachri 2 года назад

That's a really good way to do it!!

@shellyparker8960 2 года назад

Love your humor!

@kathleenwildey2757 2 года назад

Lol that was a great way to get the point across!! 🤣

@gwen7005 2 года назад

Once again, thank you!

@ArtisticCreature_ 2 года назад

TYSM!!! I DID NOT KNEW WHAT THIS WAS!!! THANK YOU!!!

@johnkon2810 2 года назад

The sandpaper & sandpaper sticks are a must have, when you manually sharpen your pencils (I find manually sharpening charcoal & drawing pencils, still the best method for those mediums).

@That1HippieChick 2 года назад

I absolutely love your sass! ☺️✌️🎨

@Lachri 2 года назад

LOL Thanks :P

@queenmab1999 2 года назад

Lol me tooo!!!!

@sasspopowich1033 2 года назад

So funny! Love it!

@michellefrank3952 2 года назад

Lol the end was classic 😂

@MunchiesMusicMadness Год назад

I lik3 the art info you give but the acting skits really make them fun to watch thanks for great content

@brentboyer79 2 года назад

🤣🤣 Great video! Someone needed to see this.

@olgahein4384 2 года назад

Wow, art professors really do that? Good thing i chose not to go to art school then. Though i remember my art teacher in 6th-7th grade giving me some great tips, when i asked the right questions and due to her recommendation i got myself Schmincke Horadam watercolors back then and shortly after a Faber Castell pencil kit (she told me about the big 4 in Germany: Drawing tools - Faber Castell, Paints of all kinds - Schmincke, Paper - Hahnemühle, Brushes - Da Vinci brushes). And then i went with this sandpaper thing to her and she told me that's making my pencils sharp without sharpening. She also explained to me how to use that paper smudge thing and that i should not peel it off when it gets too 'dirty' .

@Lachri 2 года назад

That's awesome you had good art teachers in school. They are rare gems!

@olgahein4384 2 года назад

@@Lachri She was really a rare gem, especially considering that here art classes are really worth nothing. Once a week we played around with the cheapest watercolors on somewhat thicker paper and occasionally made something with paper mache, and that till graduation. Unless you visit a private art specialized school, you don't really learn or try anything at all. That art teacher taught us more in those 2 years than all the other teachers combined.

@angelinaalbury7923 2 года назад

So informative and hilarious 😂

@gillinacook1477 2 года назад

I use these sand paper blocks to sharpen my pastel pencils, colour pencils, graphite and charcoal

@SkylarMixtape 2 года назад

Ive been using the back pages of my sketch books the way youre supposed to use that sandpaper thing 🤣😅 ( to sharpen the lead my pencils without sharpening them)

@Lachri 2 года назад

That's actually genius!! :D

@SkylarMixtape 2 года назад

@@Lachri oh, thanks 😆

@camaslindbeck1985 2 года назад

I use them to sharpen my mono tombow erasers to sharp points for fine lines

@journalersketcher 2 года назад

Great video Lisa. I never thought about using those sandpaper blocks for sharpening colored pencils. Wondering who the heck was that one person (at the time I'm writing this) who disliked this great video.

@michaelparry1383 2 года назад

I love the lawn mower. That brought back memories. That was my first paying job 70 years ago. I mowed lawns with a push reel mower similar to that. It was a lot of work, mowing, racking, and bagging - but I did make a dollar - sometimes two.

@joeblankenship377 2 года назад

I use it to clean and shape my blending stumps and nobody's gonna stop me, ya hear?! Stay back..... I've got hairspray and I'm not afraid to use it.

@Lachri 2 года назад

😂😂😂😂😂

@reneedixonart 2 года назад

Well I never took art in high school or college. Sounds like that was a good decision!! 😂 I use that sandpaper stick thingy to clean off my blender pencil. (Which I rarely use).

@garfieldgrl1 2 года назад

Lmao I actually learned they were for pencil sharpening in middle school. I was worried you were gonna say that was wrong. My art teacher was super awesome!

@niamhb7723 2 года назад

V. Helpful... 💕

@Lachri 2 года назад

Thanks :)

@morganart9418 2 года назад

So funny ! 😂 And so real...

@Lachri 2 года назад

😁

@edzejandehaan9265 2 года назад

Tbh I never heard anybody recommend these for "sharpening blending sticks". It's purpose is quite obvious.

@Snedesk 2 года назад

Way back in Jr. High Drafting class we were informed to use for sharpening pencils.

@rainangel159 2 года назад

I just use the exacto for all my pencils, I feel sharpening with a sharpener to a fine point will waste at least half the pencil

@Lachri 2 года назад

I know a lot of great artists who do this. I don't trust myself not to cut off a finger LOL!

@rainangel159 2 года назад

@@Lachri 😂practice makes a master. I hated it cause I couldn't seem to do it right. Still not the best but I've improved my sharpening skills a bit

@Lachri 2 года назад

I don't think I want to be a master of cutting my fingers off LOL! I'm pretty sure that is the part I would end up mastering hahaha.

@hemmerable 2 года назад

I twirl my stumps in my kneaded eraser before I put them in my pencil pouch just so they don't transfer so much smutt...

@ninner196 Год назад

Ha ha ha sometimes it is really funny what people say the grit paper is for. I use whatever piece of sandpaper for pastel pencils and colored pencils I do tend to go through the tortillions but sometimes a really sharp blade peels them when they are quite nasty but if one uses sandpaper on them then they look like they went through someone’s pocket as a tissue in the wash machine and come out the drier in chunks. It wasn’t me😂 Here is a tip - color coordinated stumps, ok this was funny.

@revisionistcrap211 2 года назад

I also stick my stumps in a kneadable eraser to get it semi-clean when working with charcoal. My son recently recommended your channel to me, he didn't know I was already subscribed, next generation found you. When you have a tight budget cheap hairspray on pencil drawings work great, I still have a few of those and they don't look too bad after 20+ years ;-), won't sell them though.

@bradcook1537 2 года назад

Could you use a nail file instead of the sand paper?

@Lachri 2 года назад

I wouldnt, those are too expensive. It would work but at a higher price.

@bighardbooks770 2 года назад

I use sandpaper to shave graphite sticks etc ...

@seantheo 2 года назад

This video made my life ... 😂

@queenmab1999 2 года назад

Thats SO WEIRD lol ive never heard of that! lol I only use them to sharpen my pencils pastels pencils and chalk/charcoal. I wouldn't even think of using my stumps on it lol people are strange...............

@janicesvanebro267 2 года назад

Hahahaha love ya!!!

@Lachri 2 года назад

😁

@hyukiru 2 года назад

And this is the right way to say that art classes are optional in every way possible and impossible and that art teacher need an update!! I heard certain things in my art collegge that made my curly hair become straight all at once hahahaha. Sometimes is better to stay away from college and learn thing by yourself for a better end result!!

@Lachri 2 года назад

I have heard the same thing from so many!

@hyukiru 2 года назад

@@Lachri yeahhhhhh my art teacher told be to use the b pencils instead of even the hb because they dont leave the trace and i was like...are you sure?

@catgrrrl5666 2 года назад

Wow... OK.. 2 lessons learnt! 😄👍👍

@Lachri 2 года назад

LOL YAY!

@doug112244 2 года назад

I remember that type of lawnmower from my youth and not fondly.

@Lachri 2 года назад

Hahaha I used it once... Then hired my neighbor to mow instead

@kitsirainbowfineart 2 года назад

Huh! I did find them useless for blending stumps and use them for pencil points. I had no idea I’ve been doing the correct thing for years, hey ho 😆

@blondelebanese9922 2 года назад

Ive never had an actual art class so no, I wasn’t given any instruction, good or bad. I’m soon to be 71, self taught and happy that I’ve learned on my own. It may have been beneficial to have gotten my information from an art class but what would have been the fun in that? Lol

@Nicole-ld3lv 2 года назад

I love you 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

@bettyjorodgers8552 2 года назад

Coooooool and fun. Thanks

@hyukiru 2 года назад

Also this video made me laugg sooooooooo bad hahahahahahaha

@soniatrainor7310 2 года назад

This was super useful as I was wondering whether to throw mine out! You also provided me with a much-needed laugh as we're still in lockdown here in Australia, thank you!!! 🌏

@WildPortraitArtist 2 года назад

wait... people do that? People use sanding blocks to clean blending stumps?! Wha-?!?

@Lachri 2 года назад

YEP! I can't tell you how many students I've had to stop from doing this. I was even taught this in highschool (along with hairspray and prismas hahaha).