Learn the 6 different ways you will be holding your pencil while drawing. The standard writing grip is only good for adding detail to a drawing, so we need a few more ways to hold and control our pencil for best effect.

Welcome to my free drawing course, Drawing for Beginners. This is lesson 8 in the series.. During the course you will learn everything you need to know about pencil drawing so that you can draw like a professional.

The videos are short bite size lessons so that you can learn at your own page and quickly find each lesson without having to scroll through long lessons.

Here is a link to the playlist for the course so that you can watch the lessons in their correct order:
   • Drawing for Beginners Course Intro - ...  

If you would like to follow the rest of my pencil drawing lessons you are welcome to visit my website:
https://onlineartlessons.com

In the next lesson in the series I show you the different strokes we use while drawing to get different effects. You can watch that class here:
   • 11 Basic Pencil Strokes - Drawing for...  

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00:00 Intro
00:13 Why We Need Different Grips
00:54 Writing / Tripod Grip
01:25 Overhand Grip
02:14 Tip Grip
03:16 Underhand / Dagger Grip
04:14 Extended Grip
05:11 Brush / Sketching Grip
06:25 Recap
07:30 Next Lesson - Pencil Strokes

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