Quote Originally Posted by kid908 View Post
I really need to get a new scanner. There's alot more contrast on paper. For that image, I used General's Woodless Graphite pencils.

The paper is suppose to be white, not gray, same with the white areas of the eyes.
I meant what range of pencils, 2B, 4B etc. Hm, have you tried adjusting your scanner's exposure settings?

A quick play-around with the curves tool in Photoshop gives this much more pleasing look: