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#### Hi great minds. 

I come our way to share a drawing I finished yesterday. This piece was made with charcoal and graphite pencils on pelican paper. 

I really love the texture that pelican paper gives and it is also cost friendly.  There are other good papers to use, but since pelican is always available, I use is more and I have actually gotten used to it. It can be quite interesting to draw with if it supports your method of drawing. You should try it out.



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**This piece is 18 inches by 24 inches which can also be written as 18"×24" and it was done with**

* generals charcoal pencils
* soft graphite pencils 
* tortillons or blending stump
* tombow mono zero Elastomer eraser
* kneaded eraser
* flat brushes, makeup brushes
* tissue paper
* Drawing board
* A clean sheet of small paper 

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### The function of these materials are: 

* **General's charcoal pencil:** A chalky medium, used in drawing/shading dark tones and also to add dark details in drawing 

* **Soft Graphite pencils:** Used to draw outlines and also add shades in drawing 

* **Tortillon/blending stump:** a soft paper-like material used mainly for blending and to add details in drawing 

* **Tissue paper:** Used for blending 

* **Soft flat brushes/makeup brushes:** Used also for blending. The different textures of the brush gives different textures in the drawing 

* **Tombow mono zero Elastomer eraser:** used to clean unwanted part and also add highlights in drawing 

* **Kneaded eraer:** An eraser that can be folded to any shape, used also to add soft highlights and also clean unwanted parts in drawing 

* **Paper:** A base where we draw on. And about papers, the quality of paper matters, there are some that can hold our chalky medium more than others. But I most of the time make use of the pelican papers and bristol(strathmore) paper 

* **A clean sheet of paper:** This can be a very small sheet of paper that can be used to place our hands when drawing to avoid smudging our drawing. 

**Smudging** is basically messing up our drawing with dirt's on our fingers. It can be dirt's from the oils on our hands or charcoal residue. Sometimes It is difficult to clean the dirt's off our drawings so it is best we avoid smudging our drawings.

I hope we all had fun reading through my publication. See you soon!!!