Not really /ic/, but I figured you guys use pencils. How are you supposed to properly sharpen these fuckers. For me, I always end up taking too much of the wood and the lead snaps off like pic related. Sharpening it less means that the lead is blunt.>inb4 mechanical pencilI like the feeling of a proper wooden pencil
If you do a LOT of pencil work,you may want to invest in an electric sharpener. I would sharpen several dozen at a time,since when you are doing intricate line work and are in the groove,points lose their usefulness quickly, so grabbing a fresh one is the best strategy.
>>7357448I like to get a sharp kitchen knife and evenly whittle it down until the lead is long and even
One side if the pencil should be sharp and pointy and the other round and used You can easily abuse that to adjust your lines instantly
Using a knife or blade to sharpen our pencils back when sharpeners were seen the same as bugattis.
>>7357448first brake-blade knife, than sand paper
>>7357448>lead snaps offThis happens ifa) you dropped the pencil and the lead is already broken into short segments, or b) you're trying to sharpen the thing sideways. Either way you should be sharpening pencils with a knife. Unless you're British in which case you can go get fucked.
>>7357448I just use the sharpener man
sharpen then cut it horizontally with a 45 degree angle using a razor blade
>>7357448>/ic/>I figured you guys use pencils>implying etcAnyways I just use one of those two stage long point sharpeners for regular pencils.
i have no idea how you are snapping it, but usually you take a knife to charcoal pencils (thicker core than graphite) and even if you were to take a blade to graphite you would go with a softer, larger core, like an 8B or something as opposed to a 2F, though i've shaved tons of different varying pencils without much trouble. the knifework is only to expose the charcoal or graphite, afterwards you rub it against sandpaper to get a point. the reason why we expose so much of the pencil is so we can do broad sweeping strokes with the side of the pencil, and because you can effectively change your "brush size" by using a different width of the pencil.
>>7357448surgeon's scalpel
>>7357448You need a good quality sharpener.
>>7357448I find that when pencils are sharpened with the smaller sharpening hole the lead is less likely to snap off.
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I just clear off the wood with a pocket knife and leave the core alone. Pointing the graphite seems like a colossal waste of time since it goes away in half a a second and then I'm back to the same working point I get without touching it.
>>7362997>Pointing the graphite seems like a colossal waste of timeHe doesnt know the secret of sharp graphiteIts ok anon you probably dont need to know it anyways, youre probably not doing cast drawings
>>7363003Yeah, the secret of sharp graphite is it only matters for the one style of rendering. Chiselchads and scumbleschizos are free from it. And if you're just using a pencil for underdrawings then it's flat out counterproductive.
wood-encased graphite pencils are a meme. the best artists made good art without this atrocity. i would go on to say that graphite is an inferior substitute for natural black chalk/shale
>>7357448I just use a hand sharpener with the crank. and sometimes use sandpaper pads.
>>7367451Found a picture of anon after drawing for half an hour with his superior option
>>7357448wa la. Model 18, $20.anything else is overthinking the problem.
Electric sharpener? What? Before you do that though. Have you tried not pushing the pencil when sharpening?The lead snapping used to happen to me too until I discovered that just twisting alone is enough to sharpen a pencil.You only need to lightly press the pencil rather than pushing it deeper, that is enough to prevent the snapping.
use a harder lead like H or 2H and sharpen it off sandpaper. It lasts for fucking ever before you have to resharpen it and it's not prone to snapping even with a long tip.
What is wrong with the metal sharpeners included in every pencil set?
