Friday, February 11, 2011


Medium: Pencils 2B, H and 2H

3 comments:

Enbrethiliel said...

+JMJ+

Very wrinkly peppers! =D

owenswain said...

Always interesting to see someone working in H & 2h. I seen never to move to anything harder than an HB and mostly use B & 2B.

I was fortunate to get a Faber-Castell pencil in 1.4mm on ebay for dirt. Looking forward to using it.

Paul Stilwell said...

Enbrethiliel, as I looked at them before drawing I debated a little whether I should show them or just kind of do an overall rendering. It's tedious business. But I think they make the drawing.

Owen, I find the hard pencils can really tie a picture together. When worked very lightly over or around softer lead, they do some interesting things - elusive things.

I've been getting into charcoal of late, which has a mind of its own.

Now I'm going to find out what a Faber-Castell 1.4 mm is. Reading your blogs before it has been apparent to me you know a lot of mediums - pens, pencils, papers and such. I need to learn more about what's out there.