LOL I love cookies
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And no. I'm entirely self taught. I have not taken one lesson for graphite or colored pencil. The reason is because, well, I simply refused to. Artists need to develop their own style. How can you develop your own style if someone is sitting there giving you an EXACT step by step on how to shade/draw/color? You can't. It's something you need to do.
That's also why when I made my wolf tutorial, I didn't provide photos of it. The person who is using it cannot use my references while they are drawing, they need to develop themselves.
I've tried to use books before. It's more effective to do it myself I find. I've done it better myself than using a shading tutorial book.
So very simply, I don't fully believe in lessons. I have not taken one lesson for graphite or colored pencil.
It also runs in my family. My grandpa could draw and paint. My cousin can draw and paint and happens to be an artist. Several others as well. It's just a gene thing too.
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I used to be nothing like I am now one year ago. To go from what I used to be to what I can do now, is quite a jump in one year. It's something only practicing yourself can do, even with every resource in the world.
Also, I didn't accomplish that with one pencil.
I've used:
- Charcoal 557 HB hard
- Prismacolor soft charcoal
- Derwent Charcoal Light
- Charcoal 557 2D Medium
- 7H pencil
- 8B pencil
- mechanical pencil
- 2B
- HB
- 3B
- 3H
- 2H
- 4H
- 4B
- 6B
- Soft eraser
- Kneaded eraser
- regular eraser
- blending stumps
- tissues.
Viola. Tools of the trade.
I also do need another eraser. It would've helped a lot. D: