Simple Pencil Drawing Tips

Sharpening Drawing Pencils

When sharpening your pencils for drawing, use a craft knife (carefully!) Rather than a pencil sharpener. You can get a longer and effective point in the pen this way and you can also shave it to a chisel edge that gives you more options to create different line widths and textures. This works for pencil crayons, watercolour pencils and pastel pencils, etc. as well as normal graphite pencils.

Maintenance and use of mastic rubbers

Mastic rubbers are excellent for drawing, being much softer and smoother on paper surfaces-especially watercolor paper-than regular drafts. They are available at the art supply stores. However, they are a little more expensive than the ordinary erasers of the "school"-but of course, just as easily strayed.

The larger size of mastic eraser is usually about 2 "x 1.5" so you cut or rip a new one into four smaller pieces and use one at a time. Actually, I rarely get through a piece without losing it and I have found through the painful experience that it is so easy to lose a large draft as a smaller one.

You can use a Putty eraser rubbing on the paper in the normal way or use a dabbing action to lift the pencil marks. Its main advantage is that it can be molded to a very fine point or chisel edge if you want to remove part of an image without affecting the immediate area around it.

Cleaning a dirty putty eraser is even easier. Simply pull and mold the dirty edge in, until a clean area appears. You can do this for quite some time before using up each clean bit.

Cleaning Pencil Cleaners

If you use any other type of pencil eraser, such as the plastic or Indian rubber type of the old school, it is easy to get a dirty residue on your paper if you are not careful and the devil to remove it, especially if the eraser is colored.

The two main problems are that you collect the pencil residue from erasing previous items, which then transfers to your paper next time you use it.

On the other hand, if you have not used it for a while, the rubber surface will rust and badly erase your paper. To solve this problem in both cases, simply rub the eraser on a hard, smooth, practical surface-a drawing board or countertop is ideal.

This cleans the residue and leaves a nice clean surface in the draft. In fact, it is a good habit to clean your eraser when you ever pick it up to make sure your job is kept clean and tidy throughout the drawing session.

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