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Here’s our final lesson on materials. I’ll show you all the ways I sharpen all the pencils that I use. Come back again tomorrow, cause I’ll give you guys a walk-through of your first drawing project, Simplifying from Observation.
Newest
Nate Ferguson
3d
After revisiting this lesson, I now know that I've been applying the charcoal sharpening technique to the wooden graphite pencil. These long graphite shards sticking out from the wood are kinda ridiculous. haha. I'll keep drawing with them until they get back to normal. Not sure about the grade of my sandpaper but it's been working so I'm just going with it.
George Ramirez
18d
I got a blackwing 2-step and it was worthless from the beginning. The graphite step could not do a thing. It looks so easy in and just works in the video but I had 0 luck.
@piba
1mo
Always thought that if my dark grade pencils had long points I could only use them for shading cuz they always get stubby
but knowing i can sharpen them on sandpaper is a life saver
@thealexbeast
3mo
I really liked the sharpening board Stan showed off in the video and decided to make my own
Nate Ferguson
3d
That's amazing! Did you repurpose something or did you cut that out of one piece of timber? Either way that's really impressive.
@amadeus_024
4mo
All I currently have are old graphite pencils and a hand-powered sharpener. Still, it actually felt exciting to sharpen the pencils again after a while!
Nate Ferguson
3d
I always loved those mechanical pencil sharpeners!
Dale Billyton
4mo
0:53 that is alot of pencils bro!
Angiev
9mo
Wow, very informative the first lessons I've learned a lot. Now I know what supplies are crap and what I might want to order and I've been drawing and painting for years. I'm so glad I bought this course.
@markimus
9mo
Hello everyone! Does anyone have a long point electric pencil sharpener they recommend? The one Stan linked in the "Get your tools and start playing" video is no longer available, and I am curious what has worked for people =)
Cariad Eccleston
1yr
Not gonna lie: you got me for a *second* with the Wacom stylus! 😅
James Sunderland
1yr
Does this look about right?
Josh Fiddler
1yr
They look lovely. In my experience, you're going to have some harder edges where the graphite more rapidly changes angle from the drawing edge to the edge of the pencil shaft itself. If you look at what Stan has, there is a much softer, longer transition from the drawing tip to the shaft to avoid this.
That said, you may want to have a hard edge like that but that's a question of edge control you may develop later.
EDIT: I added a screen cap from the video from 8:54
Jacob Ibáñez
1yr
I already feel like a pro by sharpening charcoal pencils and getting my fingertips dirty
He Li
2yr
Got my gears set up, ready to take my first project.
Kimberly Lee-Lewis Adams
2yr
Beautiful! Nothing like new gear and freshly sharpened pencils. :)
Crystal Beder
2yr
Excellent subtle art creation, as Proko makes a Batman symbol, on the sandpaper, while sharpening the woodless graphite pencil…
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2yr
WOW, indeed! This went by totally unnoticed to me. Nice catch, @Crystal Beder!
Charles
2yr
To be honest... learning about the mechanical pencil was so awesome. Got my amazon list ready for drawing. Really loved this video!
Sepia Officinalis
2yr
Wow, when I saw the title I thought : I'm going to skip that so fast... but then it turns out it's full of super good tips. Not to be missed!
@somebodythatexists
2yr
Anyone else got jumpscared by the holy sound-effect? I was wearing headphones and it was kinda loud. Made me jump on my seat.
Andrea Anaya
2yr
You could also use a small container to throw out sharps (like the razor blade). I use a small plastic container that used to contain bouillon cubes. You could tape up the blade, and then put it in a container to be extra safe. Toss the container when it is full.
Andrea Anaya
2yr
Seems obvious, but I did not know I could just tear off the sandpaper off of those small paddles.
@honey666
2yr
I use Razor blades to sharpen my pencils, every month I lose one or two razorblades so I open a new one. Its been like two years and I still can't find them not even one.
Claudia Finelle
2yr
I keep finding my erasers melt the paint off of drawing pencils. It happened with all brands of erasers, the last offenders were prismacolors magic rub erasers . Anyone have good tips on how to clean them efficiently?
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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
