Would you like to learn a little bit about drawing?

I have people asking me about my techniques in drawing, and they're very simple.

First, I don't really buy any really expensive supplies.  I buy smooth bristol paper (which you can get at any art store, or Hobby Lobby) for a pretty low price, and the pencils are usually Staedtler Mars Lumograph, 2B to 4B.     For erasing, I use a blue wall putty which you can buy at Walmart or Office max for 1 dollar. It's meant to hang posters on the wall.  It looks like this:


The blue kind works best....it works a million times better than kneaded eraser, and is MUCH cheaper.  It can pull up even the darkest pencil lines very easily.
I also use kids cap erasers that you can buy at Walmart....and for blending, I use toilet tissue. Yes, that's right, just plain old toilet tissue!  It works great!


You can actually see videos of me (drawing a rose) at this link:
http://bethanymarie.zippyvideos.com/gallery.z
You can see how I turn the paper around over and over, instead of sitting it still. I also many times draw on the floor (which is what I'm doing in most of those videos! lol )
BE WARNED- some of the videos have music- so in advance, if some of your babies are sleeping, you might want to turn the speakers down!   Only a couple of them do have music in the background, but I don't want you to have to have any unexpected surprises!

I hope this will help any of you who would like to start drawing! It's a lot of fun!!

You can see many of my drawings at http://www.sketchesbybethany.net .