Pencil Shading

   The first step to successful pencil shading is to control the movement of your pencil, making sure that every mark you make on the paper works towards creating the shading or modeling effect that you want. To begin with, decide whether you want to use the point or side of the pencil to shade with. It is a very useful skill to develop for both pencil drawings.

Here i draw  a baby face in side pose  in pencil shading, in left and right sides shaded with the point. Softer look and covers a large area quickly a chisel-point pencil will also give this effect. Using a sharp point to shade allows you more control, you can do much finer work, and get a greater range of tone out of the pencil. when i used the shading with hard and soft pencils, too. The pencil shading explored on this page is called 'graduated tone'. It is a drawing technique which can be used to create a strong sense of space and form. These are the Technic i used in all my images