Realistic Pencil Drawing: Introduction and Materials

JOIN THE VIRTUAL INSTRUCTOR
Get ALL of our courses, ebooks, live lessons, critiques, lesson plans and more today.
START FREE TRIAL
BUY SINGLE COURSE $30
This course features:
Over 5 Hours of Instruction
29 Videos
5 eBooks
30 Day Money Back Guarantee

Course Curriculum

MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION AND MATERIALS Lesson 1: Pencils (10:24) Lesson 2: Papers (8:48) Lesson 3: Erasers and Blending (5:21) MODULE 2: VALUE, TEXTURE, AND A SQUARE MODULE 3: GRID DRAWING - FALCON MODULE 4: SIGHTING - GLASS OF WATER MODULE 5: THE FINAL CHALLENGE

Lesson Description

In this lesson series, we’ll take a look at some of your options for graphite pencils, paper surfaces, and erasers.

Lesson 1 - Pencils

In this lesson, we explore the different grades of graphite and different forms of graphite pencils.

Lesson 2 - Papers

In this lesson, we look at several options for paper surfaces for drawing with graphite.

Lesson 3 - Erasers and Blending

In this lesson, we take a quick look at the four main types of erasers and blending tools.

Lesson Materials

None

Lesson Resources

References

Download eBook

Learn from ALL of our lessons.
Members get every course, live lesson, ebook, critique and lesson plan.
START YOUR TRIAL

Lesson Discussion

  4. I have recently subscribed to The Virtual Instructor and I am impressed with how organized and how well you present the Information to teach your students.
    Buying art supplies can be a confusing thing for students as there are many brands to choose from and qualities within a brand. Trying to work with supplies that aren’t adequate is very frustrating.
    Could you create a recommended list of supplies to purchase that lists the Company and the exact line of the item in particular to purchase. I think that would be a great help to beginners like myself.

  6. Just joined and I am excited about the things that I will learn. I agree with the previous comments about your organization and delivery. Top notch.
    Thank you

    • All the info I’ve found online about cleaning a blending stump says cut it with a knife or scrape it on sandpaper. Neither works well for me. Cutting with a knife ends up leaving a soft spot at the top that seems impossible to eliminate and no sharp point like they have when new. Scraping on sandpaper is a disaster, it just leaves the stump as a fuzzy mess.

      Any ideas on how to do this and get back the nice sharp point for detail work? thank you!

  9. I was looking for a smooth tooth paper similar to hot press wc paper, but less expensive for practice sketches. I ordered 100% bamboo cold press paper (JUVALE) sold on Amazon. Have you ever tried this paper? I’m able to get a full range of tones and seems to blend very well.

  11. Hello Matt,
    I’ve been following your tutorials, lessons and courses for several months now and I’m starting to pick out subjects to draw in graphite. Your instruction is amazing!
    Can you give me some idea how you pick out a specific paper for a subject, i.e. what type of tooth, rough to very smooth?
    Thanks,
    Len

Add to the discussion...