I am Leonardo Pereznieto and I'm so glad to see you!

Today we'll draw a crystal ball.

If you want a perfectly circular shape you may use a glass, or something like that.

With a charcoal pencil we do the darkest tones.

And we smudge them with a brush.

This brush had some charcoal on it already, so we can use it for toning.

With a kneaded eraser we clean up what went off the sphere. And we can also pull some reflexions.

I'm very sorry, I didn't press the button and I didn't record those reflexions, but

don't worry, I'll do some more.

For the most intense whites we can use a pastel stick.

And to have more control when applying the white, sometimes is better to use a pastel pencil.

I love this! It looks great when you apply it on toned paper. We smudge with a stump

and pull some more lights with the needed eraser.

For the light shadows we use a hard graphite lead. In this case an H.

The complete list of materials for this drawing is in the information below the video.

We do the shadow and this include an intense light in the middle.

With a softer graphite lead, in this case a 3B, we can reinforce some shadows.

Let's also darken the cast shadow.

Some more light...

We tweak some last details and it's ready!

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