/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

So here's a question about traditional penciling with 2mm lead.

I kept wondering how professionals can draw with B or higher lead with clean lines and still keep their pencil sharp. Every time draw, I always have to sharpen after a minute or so, even if I rotate the pencil. Then today I was writing, with lesser, "controlled" pressure than my normal writing/drawing pressure. Which sorta made the lead sharpness last longer....

So is that the norm then? Draw with moderate, controlled pressure that's lesser than your writing pressure? Wonder if I've been doing it wrong this whole time. I also draw digitally, I wonder if this can be applied, sometimes I feels stressed out in the brain and hand while drawing.

Unless the lead I'm using sucks(staedtler HB)