Magic Pencil Tricks

When it comes to freehand drawing, the pencil in your hand is so much more than simply the means of making marks on the paper. It’s also an absolutely indispensible tool that allows you to make any number of proportional judgements in the course of turning your blank sheet of paper into a finished work in graphite. In fact it’s the only tool you need with the added elegant serendipity of already being in your hand every time you need it. This article will be dealing with some of the many tricks and techniques a pencil is capable of as far as making positional and proportional judgements while drawing and exactly how to utilize them to make drawing freehand accurately a reality for anyone (fig 1). and subject and

Any every composition is filled with different kinds of optical illusions which conspire, sometimes in combination, to stop you (and me) from accurately representing the subject as an accurate freehand line drawing which is always the first step before any kind of toning, different textures or fine detail can be tackled. Let alone the subtle light effects and reflections or the minute but all important spatial and linear idiosyncrasies which are present in any subject or composition you may choose to draw and which make all the difference between merely