A BEGINNER'S Guide to Using GRAPHITE

I hope you guys all had a great Christmas!! In this week's video, I am going through a complete beginner's guide to using graphite. I go through creating swatches for each graphite pencil and why it's important to do that, I show you a trick to get in your darkest values and eliminate shine in your drawings, I demonstrate three ways to blend graphite, I discuss how you can use erasers to pull up highlights and I discuss creating gradients and contrasting values in your drawing.

I hope you guys enjoy following along and I hope you get some information from this tutorial! X

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:11 - Graphite Pencils Used
00:16 - Creating Swatches of Lightest Pencils
01:47 - Creating Swatches of Darker Pencils
04:00 - Using Charcoal in Graphite Drawings
04:55 - Blending with a Blending Stump
06:33 - Blending with a Tissue
07:37 - Blending with a Paintbrush
09:00 - Using Erasers to pull up Highlights
11:07 - Creating Gradients and Contrasting Values
12:12 - Outro

All materials used in this tutorial are listed below:
PencilMarch Student Grade Sketching Paper
Daler Rowney Simply Sketch 40pcs - 4H, 2H, H, F, B, HB, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 8B, Charcoal Medium, Charcoal Soft
Kneaded Eraser
Blending Stump
Tissue
Daler Rowney Round Mop Paintbrush
Daler Rowney Size 2 Paintbrush
Eraser