Start out by picking your pencils. For this drawing you basically need one soft pencil, one hard pencil, and something in between. I used a 2H pencil for details and light shading, an F pencils for details and general shading, and a 4B pencil for texture and dark shading. If you have woodless graphite it can also come in handy for this drawing. I used 4B woodless graphite for shading large areas.