1. Basic Drawing Equipment - 1 2. Pencil Drawing : How to Draw
with Pencils Lesson Learn the basics of learning to draw with
pencils...techniques and what you need. Learn techniques for
drawing with pencils with the following lesson for how to draw
and shade with pencils. How to Hold Your Pencil Correctly in
Many Positions When Drawing Pictures Lesson Learn the correct
positions for holding pencils while drawing. The second bit of
advice a beginning artist usually gets is “ draw from life ”.
And it is excellent advice! After all, if you can't draw what is
right in front of you, you certainly won't be able to draw what
you see in your imagination either. But the advice is a bit
short, and will usually leave the artist behind unsure of what
to do next. Painters do not have the apparatus problems of a
photographer, but they do face a similar value design problem:
anchoring the middle value of a painting in a way that
communicates the intended feeling of light or dark without
sacrificing a complete representation