/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5212308
It's a fucking pencil, what do you want people to say? You can't get more simplistic and easy to use tool than that. As I said, the only rule is to not smudge, do hatching instead. You press lighter to get lighter tone and harder to get dark tone. Work from light to dark, slowly ramping up contrast (because erasing to go lighter is a bitch). If you need to cover big area with tone, shade with the side of the tip (again, using hatching), you will get a thicker line. This is why many artists sharpen their pencils by hand like pic related, to get really long tips so that they can shade with the side. This is also how you can get smooth gradients, by shading with the side and going from light to dark. No smudging required.

Beyond that, there's no tool-specific tutorials. Just learn anatomy, perspective, and all your other fundies.