
Step 4: roll the stump and hammer all sides (don’t go crazy it has to stay round) it may take a while Step 3: get one stump and start hammering it, you have to hammer the whole stump but go a little bit harder on the tips Step 2: search a hard surface (the floor is great) and get a hammer Step 1: buying them (i recommend getting 3, the smaller one, a medium size one and a large one) some of you may know this but i’m sure a lot of you don’t I think they’re called stumps in english, whatever, the point is i’ve seen a lot of artists ditching them and recommending using q-tips instead becaue “they’re hard and don’t blend well” or using them right away, so i thought i would show you how to soften them. Ok, i’ve decided to make a tutorial on how to prepare these graphite blenders (english is not my first language so keep that in mind) hope i explain myself well:
