How did you do that...with only pencil?

Yup, a Papermate 7mm mechanical pencil..

That's awesome, man! Say, do you have any tips for shading with a pencil? I haven't tried yet.

You have to be really good at adjusting how hard you press the pencil against the paper. I can get 24 shades of grey from the same pencil. I don't use those art pencils, the harder the lead the easier the papers tears. :x
Also to get really smooth shading, you should make a blending stick...just roll a scrap piece of paper into a REALLY TIGHT tube of solid paper about half the thickness of a cigarette. Use a piece of tape to hold the roll together. Then use heavy pressure when you smooth out the dark sections, and light pressure on the light section. OOOh,OOOh, VERY IMPORTANT: use only ONE SIDE of the stick for dark and one side for light. Make sure you lable which side is which, or you might make a big black streak in your almost non existant light greys. I would also suggest that you wait until you are satisfied with youy drawing before you use the blending stick, because it kinda makes things hard to erase after the graphite gets ground into the paper... :|

I'll have to remember this *copies it down in a notepad file* did you learn this at an art school?

School of hard knocks Peter, and lots of ruined sketches...but I DID have half a school year of art class...

interesting, back when I had art class the teacher never taught us anything like that, although she was rather fond of telling us that she had no sense of smell due to a car crash lol

All of my pencil work I learned myself, my art teacher had us starting off with paints...which I kinda think should be the other way around...pencils first, colors after.

yeah that is kinda weird, also, was it mostly through trial and error that you learned this stuff or did you read books or look that kind of stuff up on the internet?

Trial and error. I only used mechanical pencils, and most art books tended to have you own a set of art pencils that were like...$20...

I see, well at least you were able to figure out what works for you without having to pay a lot of money for art supplies