 Hey guys, how are you today? All right this month in the my year 2017 Facebook group our prompt is crayons pencils and markers and In case you didn't know that already And if you're not sure what the my year 2017 group in Facebook is it's a year-long free art journaling program with prompts and teachers and Hints and tips and a really great commute sharing community It's a fabulous group if you want more information on how to join the links in the description below We're focusing like I said with the prompt this month is markers crayons and pencils, so I'm going to just bring you a quick Idea, okay, this is a dollar store drawing pad. It's nothing fancy The inspiration photos are from the inspire me photo album in the my year 2017 Facebook group If you want to copy the photo you have to be member of the group. I'm sorry But the tips and tricks I'm going to show you should work with any inspiration photo, so I'm going to actually Get out my clip of board So I can stand it up off-camera All right now this is a coin or on Geoconda drawing set This is the set that has It has there's a couple of different sets of these and I this is the art set this one has Lots of different kinds of pencils including graphite and charcoal some colored charcoal pencils and Charcoal and graphite sticks along with a blending stump and a kneaded eraser This is a really great drawing set And I want to show you some of the things you can do with just just pencils No paint. I know shocking. No paint need my eraser a little bit The blending stump is invaluable and I love it when they're dirty like that. I know a lot of people like like clean them I love it when you've got all that goodness on the end of there. It's great for blending First thing you should do when you get a set like this is just watch your pencils just like you would your paint so that you know How dark the leads are And I'm just reading and I really should have the reading glasses on for this We're going to do the flower just because I think it's the easier of some of the images that we've got over in the group and I think I'm going to start with The 2b standard 2b are the one Let's just let's find out. So that's the number one This is the number two See they're different slightly different colors, and they're also different softnesses. So some of them blend easier than others I think we want to start with the two so we're going to start with the number two And I am going to sketch the flower shape that I see I'm going to zoom in a little bit There you go, so I'm just sketching out the basic shapes that I see I'm not worried too much if there's extra lines We are working in pencil So that means that you'll be able to do some erasing I mean the shapes around looking at the shapes of the flower in the inspiration photo and You know, don't worry so much if your flower doesn't turn out exactly like the inspiration photo I can already tell you mine's not going to be exactly It's already a little bit different But this is pencil. I mean, you know, you can always Make new lines and do some erasing do use a light touch Just like I tell students if I'm teaching them painting use a light touch. No digging any holes to China With your pencil so again, I'm just following the shapes around Okay, so that's the basic shape that we've got going on, right? So we're gonna go a little darker. So this is a 4B and we'll start firming up some lines and Also, we'll start blending remember my blending stump is dirty So and you know if you get too much of something going on this is pencil one of the joys of working in just pencil You can erase things I like to suggest lines rather than leave them definite and I like my lines to be loose and sketchy That's how I prefer to do things. I am not one for trying to do it too realistically. So By all means if you like something more realistic do that do what makes you happy and you could do this with a number two pencil and just Start out with a light touch and then just press heavier on your paper We stick my hand in something somewhere that shouldn't be happens every time And you just keep adding layers like that now we're going to switch to the 6B See how much darker that is than the graphite and these are just basically different kinds of pencils Some are graphite some are charcoal, but they're just pencils. So I want you guys to use them I don't want you to be scared to use them and practice with them and just try you can make one drawing like this and then if you really like it you can scan it into your computer or make photocopies of it and Use it in collage and other work of yours Turn it into stickers to put in your journal and you can just keep going like this And this is what colors this one. This is the number two. I'm not gonna probably use all of them I'm gonna just keep going until I'm satisfied Which is pretty soon I'm kind of liking where it's going so and I'm doing this in real time for you guys Because I just want you to see I want to prove to you that You can do this if I can do this you can do this Don't be afraid if you have especially if you have a set like this to get in here This one has the white and it has brown tones It's nice to get in here with some of those and just add a little Something sometimes it's really subtle But it adds a lot So there you go. That's just really quick simple easy flower So I want you guys to try break out your pencils Just a number two you don't need anything fancy if you are going to buy something like this I do recommend this particular set It has a nice variety of drawing implements in it including the blending stump and the kneaded eraser and I do think it had a I Want to say it had a Pencil sharpener too, but I don't remember You can get it at Michaels and you can get them for 40% off. All right, that's it for today Don't forget to do the most important thing besides checking out the description below for the links to how to join the Facebook group My year 2017 how to join my other group how to send me happy mail if you want to support my channel the link to my Etsy shop where you can do that and all of that stuff in the Description below besides all of that I want you to go out and have a great day and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it And I'll see you later. Bye guys