How to Draw with Pencil : 6 Pencil Easy Techniques : A Complete 2 Week Course

What Pencils to UseWhen you go to a stationery supplier or art materials store you might become confused with the huge array of pencils available. Here is some general information to help you decide for future projects.
The most common graphite pencil used for general drawing is the HB. If you take a look along the side of your pencil towards the bottom, you will see a little code ‘HB’ written in small letters. The pencils you have gathered for your art kit are HB, 2B and 4B.
The letter ‘B’ stands for how Black the graphite in the pencil is. The higher the
number; the more black your pencil will be. The ‘B’ range is a softer pencil than the ‘H’ range, however, it is also the blackest or darkest pencil range. We do not use the ‘H’ range in this two-week course as it is a harder pencil and can easily indent your
page. Indentations are not easy to remove if you do not wish to have them there. The ‘H’ pencil range achieves a paler (lighter) effect. The higher the number the paler the effect and the harder the graphite is.
Time to begin, let’s get started!

Contents:
How To Study This Two Week Course …………………………………………………………………………… 4
Exercise One:
Learn to draw Six different pencil strokes …………………………………………………. 6 1.
Shading ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 6 2.
Broad Strokes ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 11 3. C
hisel Point…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 12 4.
Fine Lines ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 16 5.
Hatching ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 17 6.
Cross-hatching………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 19
Exercise Two: Create a drawing of the ‘Old Hay Shed’ ………………………………………………….. 22
Stage One: Transfer the old Hayshed outline drawing to quality paper ………………………….. 24
Stage Two: Fill in the drawing with the six pencil strokes you have just learned ……………… 27
Student Artworks ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 31
Bonus Project: Transfer and shade ‘The Holiday’ building …………………………………………….. 33
Extra Bonus Project: Transfer and shade ‘Frangipani Dreams.’ ……………………………………… 41
Final words ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 51