NOTE: I am working on these assignments at my night job. So I have no access to quality lighting. I also know myself and that I will not remember to post these once I get home. For me its either post with bad quality of not at all. Lol. Thoughts: I now understand why the grain of the paper is so important. Even though printer paper is lower quality than what I have, the lack of grain in printer paper would have ended up making this practice better. I have never used the side of the pencil before, it took some time to get the hang of it. By the second page I was starting to understand it more. It was very helpful to do two versions of the tip and side only going as light as possible and dark as possible. Things I learned: -Side of the pencil makes things darker automatically -As @Stan Prokopenko said, the side also makes the grain more visible -The difference between two pencils (2h and h) when side by side is negligible. It is only when looking at it with the full range is it truly visibale -Blending with my finger after using the side of the pencil is a much smoother, "finish" rather than using the tip and blending.