7 Life Drawing Pencils Reviewed - 1 is Awful, 1 is Perfect! (not sponsored)

Get our guide to the skills of figure drawing, what order to learn them in and how to assess your own skillset: Get our guide to the mindset for learning Life Drawing successfully: Try out our Foundations Challenge: In this video we review a series of pencils specifically for life drawing. The pencil you use needs to have a few characteristics to help your practice be successful, but there are various materials that meet those requirements. We tell you which is our current favourite and which to avoid. So we look at: A hard graphite pencil A very soft graphite pencil - Mitsubishi Hi-Uni 10B A variety of charcoal, carbon and pastel pencils: Generals Carbon Sketch Generals charcoal pencil Wolff’s Carbon Pitt Pastel 199 black Carbothello black We also look at willow charcoal and why our recommendations on that have changed.