Recently I've been working on a drawing and I wanted more pencils so I can achieve the kind of realism that I want.
I got a pack of Kimberly Graphite Pencils from Micheals arts and crafts store.
In the package I got 10 different grades of pencils which gives me a good range of light and dark.
What do you know about graphite pencils? Well this was my frist time using graphite pencils and all I knew was that there were pencils that could get really dark, almost black, and really light.
I also knew that they were called hard and soft pencils but I didn't know which were the hard pencils and which were the soft.
The package on my pencils explained some stuff so I'll tell you what I know about them.
First off, a grade refers to how hard or soft a pencil is (which means how light or dark the graphite can get).
When a pencil is soft, it gets dark and when a pencil is hard, it's light.
The range of graded pencils in my package were: 4H - considered the "hardest" ni the pack of pencils.
It's the lightest and it doesn't erase or smudge well.
(which can be good).
2H F HB B 2B 3B 4B 6B 8B - considered the "softest" pencils.
It gets really dark and it smudges well.
You can erase it fairly well but because it's so dark, it leaves a bit of residue so you have to put some effort in getting it all gone.
The "H" means "hardness", "B" means "blackness, and "F" means "fine point".
Along with the lettered scale, where B is the soft pencils and H are the hard pencils, there is also a numbered scale, which is where the term number 2 pencils come from.
People usually use number 2 pencils - which are HB pencils.
This pencil is most commonly used because it's a middle grade.
I've noticed the HB smudges a decent amount.
Because I'm left handed, when I wrote in my notebook in school, my hand would drag across what I wrote and I would get the graphite onto the side of my hand haha.
So whats important is to have (when drawing or even writing) is having a piece of paper to lay on top of your drawing so you don't smudge it - especially if you're working very hard on a detailed drawing.
I got a pack of Kimberly Graphite Pencils from Micheals arts and crafts store.
In the package I got 10 different grades of pencils which gives me a good range of light and dark.
What do you know about graphite pencils? Well this was my frist time using graphite pencils and all I knew was that there were pencils that could get really dark, almost black, and really light.
I also knew that they were called hard and soft pencils but I didn't know which were the hard pencils and which were the soft.
The package on my pencils explained some stuff so I'll tell you what I know about them.
First off, a grade refers to how hard or soft a pencil is (which means how light or dark the graphite can get).
When a pencil is soft, it gets dark and when a pencil is hard, it's light.
The range of graded pencils in my package were: 4H - considered the "hardest" ni the pack of pencils.
It's the lightest and it doesn't erase or smudge well.
(which can be good).
2H F HB B 2B 3B 4B 6B 8B - considered the "softest" pencils.
It gets really dark and it smudges well.
You can erase it fairly well but because it's so dark, it leaves a bit of residue so you have to put some effort in getting it all gone.
The "H" means "hardness", "B" means "blackness, and "F" means "fine point".
Along with the lettered scale, where B is the soft pencils and H are the hard pencils, there is also a numbered scale, which is where the term number 2 pencils come from.
People usually use number 2 pencils - which are HB pencils.
This pencil is most commonly used because it's a middle grade.
I've noticed the HB smudges a decent amount.
Because I'm left handed, when I wrote in my notebook in school, my hand would drag across what I wrote and I would get the graphite onto the side of my hand haha.
So whats important is to have (when drawing or even writing) is having a piece of paper to lay on top of your drawing so you don't smudge it - especially if you're working very hard on a detailed drawing.