![]() ![]() You can sharpen all day in a shallow sharpener and never get a point small enough to get down into the tooth. Pointy pencils are essential to smooth, even, and vibrant pencil layers.Īnd by dull pencils, I’m including those silly shallow point sharpeners that give you short, stubby pencil points. Dull points don’t break as easily, right? But dull points are too fat to get down into all the tiny nooks and crannies of the paper tooth. People try to outsmart the pencil by using a dull point. Hey, pull your grip back from the point of the pencil! Color from coloring position! 4. ![]() Intuitively, choking up on the pencil feels like it might be the best way to force color down into the white spots.īut then your pencil lead breaks, so you stop sharpening as much… but then your coloring looks grainier… so you need more muscle… There’s a nasty Catch-22 in colored pencil: You see grainy coloring so you shift your hand into writing position. Here’s the link if you missed it read tip #1. We talked about writing position in part one of this article. Pssstttt… are you in writing position again? It takes time and layers and time and layers and time and layers…Ĭolored pencil always takes more layers than you think it will.īut what if you’re doing lots of layers on smooth paper and yet you’re STILL getting graininess. I teach a colored pencil course and the number one thing I say during project feedback is “looks great but you need a few more layers!”Ĭolored pencil is a slow medium. But in general, smoother papers leave fewer holes. Hot and cold press are manufacturing processes, not tooth measurement. Switch to a smoother, less-toothy paper to minimize graininess. If you’re using cold press paper with colored pencils, you’ll get more gritty white spots because of the paper texture. There are 4 reasons coloring looks grainy or pale: 1.
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