Teenage Contemplation

MATERIALS

• High quality artist white paper

• 2B graphite pencil – I use Mars Lumigraph

• A good pencil sharpener and a piece of fine sandpaper for getting a really sharp tip on your pencil

• A solid drawing board

• Masking tape to the paper on the drawing board

• Erasers – with these I cut them into thirds and wrap paper around them to prevent to oil off my fingers ending up on the paper. I prepare a jar full of these before I start so I don’t have to stop drawing

• A sharp knife to cut off the end of the eraser to keep it clean. You only need to cut off a small portion but it’s