Pencil Pixels

The easiest way to find correct graphite tones for your pencil portraits.

A simple tool that helps artists and beginners find the correct pencil tones to use in their portraits and drawings. The subject of an artwork may be captured or imported into the application for further processing. Each area of a photo is a related to a certain range of pencil tones, by touching each area, the associated tone of graphite appears at the bottom of the screen, informing the artist of which pencil to use in reproducing the same area on paper.

Available pencil tones (4H 3H 2H H F HB B 2B 3B 4B 5B 6B 7B 8B) + "W" = white.