How to Outsmart Your Peers on Sketching Pencils Guide

Pencil Sketch Art: It's Not as Difficult as You Think -Best Pencil for Sketching/ Sketching Pencils

The first thing for a sketch is a pencil of different shades from lightest grade to the darkest one. For drawing you should buy graphite pencils for shading the face area or clothes. To make your sketch more unique and realistic you should use sharp edged pencils because it gives the sketch more finite lines and is easy for you to draw outlines,  do light and dark shading without having some darker lines in lightest area.

You can also use charcoal pencil to draw hair texture because a charcoal pencil is the darkest one. If you have applied a first layer of hair texture with a graphite pencil then charcoal pencil will not do any dark shading on your so, if you wanted to draw darkest texture of hair or any darkest areas to be drawn then you should start with charcoal pencil in the initials because overlaying of charcoal pencils after graphite pencils didn't make a huge impact on your sketch leaving you with dissatisfied.

To draw any sketch you should first learn the light areas from where the light is reflecting to know where to draw light shades and where to draw dark shades.If the light is coming from the right side of the face then the darkest part to be drawn should be the left part of the face which is similar in the case of light coming from right part.

For a sketch after drawing an outline of the sketch you should give a first layer shading which is the smoother shading. After shading the first layer before going to any layer of shading you should check if the pencil is sharpened or not and after checking you should go for the next layer. The next layer should be drawn little bit darker than the smoother one according to the reference image and then after each layer of shading you should blend them with a tissue or a blending stump .While blending for the face texture you should use a tissue paper because it makes the texture of the face more smoother and look realistic.

To make improvements in your sketches quality I'm gonna tell the some basic pencil sketch techniques which would help you to make more realistic sketches.

Now starting with basics if you are making an outline of the sketch you must take in mind that the outline should be lighter so, that it can be erased without leaving a mark of the outline on the paper and after that it can be made realistic.

After that while shading the inner part of the outline you must pick the pencil from the back side of starting point of pencil in order to shade more light area to give your sketch realism and to make darker shading you must pick the pencil in order of moving the hands to the needled area of pencil.