I have hard time understanding why people try to smudge and smear their work in the first place. Values can be built up and blended with pencil alone just fine. If you have large areas to cover use side of pencil and you'll get charcoal-like marks. Do you use blending tools to get rid of actual pencil marks? and if yes,…
When I used to do colored pencil work, I would use a marker blender to blend my prizma colors. I would work on marker paper, so I got an awesome, smooth feel to my colored pencils.
shammy for wider toning, thumb or a piece of rough paper for finer smudges. But definitely only for charcoal as mentioned above. Don't think I've drawn with pencils so I can't suggest how well it works for that (I guess if you use a soft pencil it might be ok)
Depends on the softness of your pencil. They are available in varying degrees. If you use an H or 2H, you'll have to resort to hatch lines for blending whereas if you us B pencils they're smudgy characteristic is better applied when using paper stomps or kneadable erasers. If you're going for smoother shade transitions you…
Stomps for me dont work well with pencil, I personaly dislike them alot cause they dont feel consistend. A brush works quite well and it doesnt get dirty in a way the stomp does. I guess the effect ranges on your pencils HB I still prefer using my finger to smudge shadows, ofcourse this can go horribly wrong if its moisty…
Sometimes people don't want pencil marks, and instead want soft smooth areas. Its a personal preference thing, and there's a lot of cool stuff you can do by creating variations in textures. Over blending/smudging is a pretty common newbie mistake though. But there's no reason to not have a tool because of it.
It comes down to render style and workflow. Yes you can do alot with pencil alone, but sometimes you benifit from a trick like smuding. Personaly I like drawing in a more realistic style, so any lines or marks are a big no, and you have more control over certain gradients. It could be a way of building down or distributing…
Greetings Polycounters; As the title states I just want to know what do you guys use to blend the shadow and other sorts of detail while making arts traditionally.. Stomps or Dry brush. I've been using stomps for few days and they dont really work well on the medium tooth paper, they would help you blend the shadow details…
I never really liked 'stomps' either. Just didn't feel good to me. I just use a shammy cloth or clean rags (cut up sections of old tshirt), depending on how much I want to spread around. Although, this is only when I'm working in charcoals. I try not to smudge anything if I'm using pencils... they almost always turn out…