If you made your illustration on stipple paper, begin to shade the leaf one vein-section at a time. Use a black Prismacolor or Faber Castell pencil, not a graphite pencil.
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If you made your illustration on stipple paper, begin to shade the leaf one vein-section at a time. Use a black Prismacolor or Faber Castell pencil, not a graphite pencil.
Is it because a graphite pencil can smear and smudge?
Two things- graphite pencil makes a gray tone instead of black and it smudges more easily than wax based colored pencils.