Too much tooth grabs the graphite, and so you cannot achieve a smooth layering. Paper choice is most important with the two.įor coloured pencil you will want a smooth paper with an open surface, CP or cold press, as this has more tooth.įor graphite you will want a smooth HP or hot press as the former has way too much tooth for graphite, and HP not enough to take colour. In layering values it is most important to use the lightest possible touch in order to avoid destroying the tooth, after which it is no longer possible to continue. Particle size which determines how it fills the microscopic gaps in the papers surface (tooth). Graphite is a beautiful medium, my first love in fact, and values aside, brands have differences in other things such as temperature, grippyness or glide on the paper, (graphite is a lubricant). The dryer, the harder, personal preference. Different brands are dryer, or oily-er, or waxy-er than others and this determines their hardness/ softness. I prefer the oil based as the wax based tend to clog a paper’s tooth easier than oil based pencils do, which then prevents any more colour being accepted by the paper, also wax based are more fragile in that points break easier, but otherwise this is a personal preference. Just to add a little to what Kathy has said,………….Ĭoloured Pencils mainly come in either oil based or wax based. But this will be vastly accelerated by studying closely the work and methods of others on WC, and also examining closely what you yourself are doing, as well as thinking on what you want to achieve, and doing the nessessary. No, you still have to undergo the learning process.
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