Be prepared to use up a lot of paper in your practice sessions. I once asked an, experienced artists I was having private tuition with, to show me how to do something. When he showed me, I exclaimed in glee that ‘I now knew how to do that’. He quickly ‘put me in my place’ by telling me that ’40 years of doing that is how you learn to master it’. I went home and every night used up every sheet of the newspaper, practicing the technique over the top of the news advertisements. Practice, Practice, Practice! Add Comment  Lesson One ` Drawing ~ Getting started, Drawing Board and T-square. Here is the drawing board with drawing paper in position. Use the T-square only for making boarder lines.Note; do not use the T-square for drawings, do all drawing freehand. Getting started in drawing is a very simple matter. Pick out the materials you need and begin right away with warm-up exercises I will be showing soon. These will be the same drawing, exercises, I have been doing since I was 13 years old. lol, 50 years of experience behind me in doing my drawing exercises, these are just like practicing the scales for a musician. Lesson One, Drawing, Materials, Erasers. 05/28/2010
 Lesson One ` Drawing `Materials` Erasers Use a soft firm eraser for erasing pencil lines. An eraser, which is too hard, will scratch the paper and ruin it for drawing purposes. Use a very soft art gum or soap eraser for cleaning up the paper. In an emergency if you do not have a rubber in the studio, you can use a piece of fresh (it must be fresh), white bread, as a substitute eraser for cleaning up all smudges and finger marks after finishing a drawing or removing the construction lines in a water colour painting.  Portrait of Leanne, by Kathy Shell, rendered in soft, medium and hard, Bruynzeel Artist Quality, Sepia Pencils. Copyright to the artist. Original in private collection. Kathy Shell, Art School Lesson One, Learning to Draw. Part One.Basic Requirements The Pencil. Artist’s pencils are made from an inner core of graphite (not lead) and they are of a superior quality to the average pencil used for schools, offices and home use. Expect to pay around $4. to $8. for a single high quality artist’s pencil, (2010 Australian prices), if you wish to work with the best tools. The inner graphite core usually referred to as the ‘lead’, comes in various degrees of hardness, from the extremely hard, 9H (more often used by drafts persons than artists), through to a very soft , dark ad easily smudged, 6B, more suited to a painterly blended style of drawing by fine artists. See my portrait of Leanne above and this portrait of Sean and son David, below . Bother these works relied on the use of a 2B easy to erase pencil for the initial construction lines, a 2H to clearly mark the drawing once I was certain of the positioning of features then the shading was produced using a full range of the softest and most easily blended of the pencil grades. I consider this a painting once I move into the soft graphite pencil stage and away from the hard pencil line drawing, hard graphite pencil sketch stage.  The hard graphite makes a paler grey mark and the softer the graphite is the darker it is and usually the thicker the inner core, as thin soft cores break easily. The extremes of 9H and 6B require the most skill to use so the average art student will find the grades of 3H, B and 3B the ideal to learn with and these are the grades most often used by the artist when sketching. In the home, school and office the HB pencil, the one centered between the degrees of hardness and softness, s considered the most versatile. Interestingly artists rarely work with the common HB pencil. You may enjoy experimenting with the grades on either side of the standard, HB and you will love the feel of a quality artist’s pencil in your hands. I use Bruynzeel, deign pencils as my preferred choice. Next lesson will cover other drawing materials and sharpening pencils.  Illustration shows the main grades of graphite used by artists.  An example of a pencil line drawing sketch is this Italian Landscape by Salvatore Rosa, 1615 - 1673 | Artist currently not accepting commissions.
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