If you're looking for tutorials and amazing artwork that's what you'll see. I just want to make myself better so I'm using this to find ways. You can too.(not my work until I get better)
“The picture was taken before she was famous,” Michals remembers. “I had simply been told she was super talented and big things were in the wings. We went up town and ran around the Marquis theatre and had a lot of fun. I asked her to dance and she was as joyful as she seems in the photograph, just radiant.”
ok, i’ve decided to make a tutorial on how to prepare these graphite blenders (english is not my first language so keep that in mind) hope i explain myself well:
i think they’re called stumps in english, whatever, the point is i’ve seen a lot of artists ditching them and recommending using q-tips instead becaue “they’re hard and don’t blend well” or using them right away, so i thought i would show you how to soften them. some of you may know this but i’m sure a lot of you don’t
step 1: buying them (i recommend getting 3, the smaller one, a medium size one and a large one)
step 2: search a hard surface (the floor is great) and get a hammer
step 3: get one stump and start hammering it, you have to hammer the whole stump but go a little bit harder on the tips
step 4: roll the stump and hammer all sides (don’t go crazy it has to stay round) it may take a while
step 5: to know when you’re done you gotta squeeze the tip, it’s gotta be soft enough to form an oval between your fingers but not flaten right away
step 6: choose the softer tip and put the stump vertical with the chosen tip up, hit the floor repeatedly to get rid of the other tip, keep doing that until the bottom is flaten, you should end up with something like this:
step 7: once you’re done, put tape around the point, right where the cone of the point starts forming
step 8: get some sandpaper and sand the tip (horizontally like in the gif), keep the sandpaper in your case because that’s how you “clean” the tip
i had these for almost 7 years (yeah i know they look nasty, art isn’t clean)
Quickly flipping through my daily sketch planner, since I don’t think I’ll be able to finish this year properly cause I’m still recovering. I might try this tiny planner/sketchbook again in 2017 but I don’t want to fall behind on 2016 before I even start.
Thanks again for all the support this year. I wish I could reply to everyone but my messages have piled up so much it’s giving me a bit of stress haha @_@;;. I do read all of them though, so thank you guys for the emotional support.
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