sketch by pauline mycock

Lovely sketch Pauline

Another lovely sketch. I like the variety of pencil marks, shapes and textures. I used to work with graphite pencil, but then discovered graphite sticks (from WHSmith for £4.99). They look like pencil but is graphite wrapped in a plastic coating. They come in the variety of softnes from HB to 9B. They can be sharpened just like pencil and allow to create greater variety of strokes: from very broad (made by the side, very useful when working on a large scale) to very thin (using just a point).