Sharpening a conte 2b charcoal pencil with the razor without it breaking like in the video is so hard in my experience. I'll end up breaking the lead repeatedly until like the whole pencil is gone. I wonder if I'm causing the breaks or if they just come with lead that got broken during shipping inside the wood in a bunch of places like it was in the video. Thankfully the conte b pencil can still go as dark as you need if you just press harder or layer it more, and those sharpen just fine for me most of the time.

What do you think of this sharpener? 😅 its that crappy standard sharpener but made as a drill bit so you can use your screwdriver for sharpening 😅. Uri Tuchman on YouTube’s invention.

After revisiting this lesson, I now know that I've been applying the charcoal sharpening technique to the wooden graphite pencil. These long graphite shards sticking out from the wood are kinda ridiculous. haha. I'll keep drawing with them until they get back to normal. Not sure about the grade of my sandpaper but it's been working so I'm just going with it.

I got a blackwing 2-step and it was worthless from the beginning. The graphite step could not do a thing. It looks so easy in and just works in the video but I had 0 luck.

Always thought that if my dark grade pencils had long points I could only use them for shading cuz they always get stubby but knowing i can sharpen them on sandpaper is a life saver

I really liked the sharpening board Stan showed off in the video and decided to make my own

All I currently have are old graphite pencils and a hand-powered sharpener. Still, it actually felt exciting to sharpen the pencils again after a while!

0:53 that is alot of pencils bro!

Wow, very informative the first lessons I've learned a lot. Now I know what supplies are crap and what I might want to order and I've been drawing and painting for years. I'm so glad I bought this course.

Hello everyone! Does anyone have a long point electric pencil sharpener they recommend? The one Stan linked in the "Get your tools and start playing" video is no longer available, and I am curious what has worked for people =)

Not gonna lie: you got me for a *second* with the Wacom stylus! 😅

Does this look about right?

I already feel like a pro by sharpening charcoal pencils and getting my fingertips dirty

Excellent subtle art creation, as Proko makes a Batman symbol, on the sandpaper, while sharpening the woodless graphite pencil…

To be honest... learning about the mechanical pencil was so awesome. Got my amazon list ready for drawing. Really loved this video!

Wow, when I saw the title I thought : I'm going to skip that so fast... but then it turns out it's full of super good tips. Not to be missed!

Anyone else got jumpscared by the holy sound-effect? I was wearing headphones and it was kinda loud. Made me jump on my seat.

You could also use a small container to throw out sharps (like the razor blade). I use a small plastic container that used to contain bouillon cubes. You could tape up the blade, and then put it in a container to be extra safe. Toss the container when it is full.

Seems obvious, but I did not know I could just tear off the sandpaper off of those small paddles.

I use Razor blades to sharpen my pencils, every month I lose one or two razorblades so I open a new one. Its been like two years and I still can't find them not even one.