I hold it the first way btw.

true artists clench the pencil with their teeth and use their raw neck muscles to draw for hours uninterrupted, thus becoming one giant human pencil.

now personally I don't hold my pencil, I just let it float there using the power of convenience.

Nah, true artists hold it like they are about to stab their drawing...and then they do.

I hold my pencil like a wine glass

Me personally, I hold it at a 573° angle with my wrist potentially split in half, while moving my whole body for more control of my pencil 🥰

You'll see this type of holding particularly for artists who use canvas as their medium. This is because they draw in an upright position and it will be extremely uncomfortable if you hold it in a writing position. Using this hold in a sitting position will give bad results, at least in my experience. This is because when you draw using the writing hold, you usually sit, and holding it loosely like that will give your sketch inaccurate strokes as compared when you do it in a canvas. However, coloring is a different matter, I like to hold it in that position so I can lightly apply my colors and proceed to go down the harder the shade is.

True artists pierces their pencils into their hand and use it as if it's their sixth finger. The pencil becomes a part of their body.

As an artist, i can confirm we hold our pens with our feet. Sometimes we hold them with our mouths too! It helps us shade easier!

i dont hold my pencil. i drop it in between the couch cushions and never find it.

Sometimes I get scared that I’m doing gang signs while drawing 😅😅

True artists don't use pencil, they use mindpower to summon lines in the paper magically.

I hold my pencil in a very unique way. Not because I'm an artist, but because I never learned how to hold it properly as a child XD

"My weapon of choice, is a pencil." - John Wick

I personally have someone hold it for me, where I direct each and every single stroke. That's why I never make mistakes and have to erase.

As an artist, I can confirm that we use our pencils by casting spells on the paper and when you turn away for just one minute we do our magic then BOOM. The entire base of the character is drawn. That’s why you never see us actually drawing anything except little details…it’s all *spells.*

When I was young I hated the normal way people held pens so I made my own way SPECIFICALLY to put people off/to make them think I'm different. It took a while to get used to, but I have continued to hold pens weirdly for my whole life.

Me personally, i use my eye socket to hold the pencil, so i can really see what I'm doing

True artists grip onto the pencil for dear life while they dig its lead into paper

I still hold it the first way lol

Depends on what I'm drawing xD first option clean, controlled linework, second option loose sketches, shadow and blending

I drew so much artwork as a child that it’s just feels natural for me to do the first way

Personally I have a pair of drawing chopsticks that I use to grab the pencil. Super helpful for just getting a quick sketch down!❤❤❤😊😊😊

I swear whenever I see someone holding their pencil like that I can hear boss music coming from the off

As a beginner, I use a pot to cook my pencil, season it, then eat my pencil so I become one with the pencil. *SO I BECOME THE PENCIL.*

I like how pokemon theme comes when his inside artist artist get awaken

How tf you supposed to hold a pencil then 😨😨 with your feet??

And the best artists just hold it like it's some form of domain expansion ritual

Tbh tho, a true artist is guaranteed to hold their stationary and whatnot in the weirdest and hardest way possible while feeling comfortable with it like that

2cnd way reminded me of the clip "We'll see how your reacting WHEN I SHIFT INTO MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!!!!!"(i only use the second way for shading, but i mostly do digital art so i practicly never have to hold it like that :p)

Some artists hold their pencil with their thumb wrapped around the very end of the eraser while their pinky goes over the thumb and then they twist their arm exactly 360 degrees so they have more rotating potential. Some even go as far as growing a 3rd elbow for more bending power.

Dude my art professor back in highschool holds his pencil like this (the second way). . He is a true chad ngl frfr

Chuck Norris just looks at his pencil and it starts drawing by itself.

I only use the second grip for a shadowing

I hold my pencil by sticking it through my hand, John Wick Style.

Digital artists don’t hold their pencil at all, we just tell Siri what we want and she draws it for us.

They say the pen is mightier than the sword but they don't realize that the pen IS my sword!

“however for you see, there is no wrong way to hold a pencil nor a pen or any writing equipment, everyone has their own way” -master oogway, probably

then theres the legendary way THE KINDERGARDEN WAY

I used to do that for practice shading when i was a starter

Personally, I’d like to colour the second way but usually when I’m actually doing outlines I put the tip of the pencil so incredibly close to my fingertips that I basically rubbing them on the paper

How i hold my pencil: squeezing it super duper tightly

This is actually the first art short that's actually made me laugh

I actually don’t hold it either of those ways, I got it between my pointer and middle if that makes sense. Or sometimes I just use the force.

True artists amalgamate the pencil on their eyes, this way they could precisely do sketches and make fine lines to near perfect shapes

The way I hold my pencil depends entirely on my mood that day

Bro even artist use the first one cause it's great for sketching and the last one is great for details I'm a beginner artist by the way❤

How I hold my pencils 🤜

How I hold it: My pencil: | The paper: __

As the only true artist here, i can confirm true artists hold their pencil with their eyelid, so they can see every molecule of what they're drawing. I hope beginner artists can learn this method.

I hold a pencil with my pinky sticking straight out😭 I don’t know how it got that way

I must be a noob because I've been holding my pencil like the first one for over 20 years of drawing 😂

I'm not that much of a artist but I hold my hand the second way frr😂

The carpel tunnel between my thumb and pointer finger is perfect as long as I make smth good

Me : *Casually invents another way to hold a pencil after being born*

I hold the pencil the second way sometimes,to shade

I just hold on for dear life, and I am completely amazed if something comes out of it

That's how I hope my pencils since I'm very used to that.

Don’t make fun of people, they are new and deserve a chance to express themselves. They try to do the best they can..

I hold it super close to the graphite

How i hold pencils ✊✏️

I hold the pencil neither way! *He he he...*

WHY DO BOTH PISS ME OFF, I HOLD IT THE FIRST WAY BUT LIKE- NEAR THE UH, LIKE, TIP OF THE PENCIL LIKE. WHY HOLD THE PENCIL IN THE MIDDLE AUAAGSJUD

I draw with the thumb on the bottom of the pen, the pointer, middle, and index finger on top And the pinky is loose

That kinda scared me😭 I was like “oh there’s no audio? Might as well pump the audio up then.”

I fricking almost had a heart attack when I saw how far up the fingers where on the pencil 💀

as an artist, I hold mine close to the tip so I get a blister on my ring finger

"now I'm... turning to dust as the world gets twisted"

i hold it like that when the pencils really small

i have the hugest bump on my middle finger from gripping the lead itself to draw details

I hold it the first way except I put my fingers really close to the tip

the "pro" way is the way my art teacher teaches me to hold it, but i still hold it the first way

I hold it where the end is. The teachers can't stop me

I hold my pencil really close to the tip and hold onto it for dear life when I’m just doing the character Stickman thingy before I start adding details 😭

Me holding it on the rear and of the gripper part of the mechanical pencil:

I actually hold it the second way, the other one hurts my wrist and I find it harder… my mom always tells me to draw the other way. But she draws stick figures so…

I grab my pencil with a hard grip, like holding a tennis racket

The second one is how I hold my spoon when eating

i hold my pencil like i hold my cup of coffee: i dont hold it

Not me who keeps my hands extremely close to the pencil tip when drawing

Am i the only one that holds it the first way but stronger and closer to the paper😭💀🤌

BRO I HOLD MY PENCIL IN THE MOST UNHUMAN WAY POSSIBLE

intense breatheing* THE NOOB ONE GOT ME RILED UP IM GONNA GO PUNCH THE SUN!

Digital artists that don't have a pen:

Can't use pencils. I only use mechanical pencils due to a habit and a comfort.

I use the "noob" style for regular lines and the "pro" style for the shading

I do the first one with my grip closer to the lead

Y’all I’m just now realizing after writing/drawing my whole life with part of my pencil on my RING FINGER, that you’re not supposed to hold it on your RING FINGER😭

I dont hold my pencil like that tbh when im sketching.

Imagine waking up and seeing that near your door I would think that was real 😂

Tradd moore's way is how a gods hold pencils.

Me personally i just summon a ghost to hold them pencil for me✨

I turned up my volume because I thought it was too low then I got scared by the loud sound😭😭

I death grip pencils so hard that I have calluses on my thumb and the side of my ring finger.

I FINALLY UNDERSTAND WHY MY MATH TEACHER USE HIS PENCIL THIS WAY

My way of holding a pencil has been optimized to make quick strokes to the point both styles look alien

Jokes on you! I never hold my pencil like that!

You know you are an artist when you are holding the pencil differently.

That made me physically flinch

I use first two fingers ontop and the 2nd two fingers on the bottom