This app teaches you how to sketch with a pencil. If you are looking for Sketching Techniques and Ideas, you are in the right place. A pencil is perhaps the most widespread, affordable and multifunctional tool for an artist. With pencils, you can make sketches, drawings and full-fledged finished paintings.

A pencil allows the artist to work with different line thicknesses, vary the tone, change the character of the stroke, convey the volume, character and texture of objects — everything depends only on the knowledge, skills and experience of the person in whose hands this tool appears. And it's always easy to take with you.

However, there are several crucial points that you should know when you start drawing with a pencil.

Types of pencils

- Office, aka school.
- Artistic pencil. These pencils already have a range of hardness.
- Mechanical pencil.
- Carpenter's pencil.
- Lead pencil without wood sheath
- Charcoal pencil. Charcoal is very malleable — it can be mixed, applied with your fingers, with a cloth, applied with bold strokes, and with subtle, clear strokes, or in a uniform tone. Therefore, coal is so loved and often used by artists.

Basic drawing techniques

- Hatching
- Stumping
- Shading

For pencil drawing, hatching and shading are essential techniques. You sometimes need stumping for work with soft materials such as charcoal, pastel, sanguine and sepia. With a pencil, stumping is not used (in any case, it is inadvisable for novice artists).

Paper

It is important not only what you draw with but also on what surface you sketch. The texture, color, density and other properties of the paper are also of great importance.

Additional materials

- Paper tape to secure the sheet to a tablet or easel. Either buttons or holders.
- Eraser. In addition to the usual eraser (soft and hard), which everyone knows about, there are less well-known but no less useful and necessary options such as kneaded eraser and eraser pencil.
- Utility knife or stationery knife. For the correct sharpening of pencils.
- Sandpaper. For polishing and textured lead shafts.

How to start learning to draw with a pencil

1. Buy several pencils of different softness. For example, H, 2B, 4B, 6B
2. Sharpen these pencils correctly. You can find tips and pieces of advice in the app.
3. Pick up the paper.
4. Try to do easy exercises for shading and hatching — a lot of lessons for beginners you can find in the app.
5. Test pencils by drawing lines of different thicknesses, textures.
6. Practice holding the pencil correctly in your hand. Watch the videos in the app and try to hold the pencil in the same way.
7. Try to draw something simple — you can find many easy schemes and instructions for beginners in the app.
8. Continue painting with pleasure learning with our guide.

How to learn to draw with a simple pencil

Are you hungry for more? Do you already want to draw pictures but don't know where to start? Begin at the beginning. And what is most important in the drawing is the line — so take a pencil and draw lines.

If you devote at least 10 minutes to exercises every day, then very soon you will notice that your hand has become more confident in connecting the designated points. Training is everything here. The further, the easier, because something is already happening! And when it turns out, then there are wings behind your back and fire in the heart. The first masterpiece is just a stone's throw away! Do you wonder what can be drawn by a beginner? Just download the app and learn from step-by-step tutorials and convenient manuals.. Improve your skills, and soon you will be able to draw difficult things like beautiful faces, realistic eyes and express your feelings sketching.

So, if you do want to know how to sketch and create art with one pencil in your hand, download the app and learn Sketching Techniques and trendy Ideas!