You can def shade without smudging if you're using good pencils

All I can really afford to use is writing pencils I found laying about.

It's okay. But try to get good sketching pencils when you can

Generally end up using the wacom when I have a large allotment of time to do shading and such.

I can guarantee you it makes things much better

```All I can really afford to use is writing pencils I found laying about.```
Thas a really lazy excuse

go buy a set of engineering pencils from T4 to M4

I have 8 dollars to my name right now :/

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Are you alive?

Get job or ask parents

I have a job, then bills 😄

a pencil set costs what? 2 bucks?

It depends tbh

There are definitely cheap pencil sets out there

Mine costed like $10 however but they're amazing <:ohGosh:300898497161592832>

Man I used to buy engineering sets of 10 pencils of different hardness for 1-1.5 usd

Engineers write weird

you could have gotten exactly the same a few times cheaper

Well there is a difference in engineering pencils and sketching pencils

The letters are wider instead of longer

Idk why

wood and graphite

the only difference is marketing

I suppose if I can track down what stores in Canada sell engineering pencils I'll see about obtaining some.

4b is such a babe

I mean you probably have something like a 2H?

Nd 2b hehehehe

I think it is 2h the normal school pencils

they're sturdy but they're made for sharp and high contrast letters

Tbh I'd rather draw with mechanical pencils than school pencils

something like a B or 2/3B with minimal pressure would do wonders for shading

^^

you can also get different graphite grades for mechanical pensilc, but shading will be a bitch

t. engineer

In most cases I had just been using a regular pencil to outline what I was going to finish shading on the computer. But, I've had limited time the past few days, and have just been shading my stuff on paper.

just buy a fucking screen tablet and use photosop or sai

I have a wacom 😛

Lmao

roll it up and shove it up your dog