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Use Pencil Hardness to Your
Advantage
When starting the preliminary drawings for any project it is best to keep the lines
light and sketchy. A 2H pencil hardness is ideal for this.
This is one thing I have definitely learned over the years that has greatly impacted
my design and the process of which I work. When I was in high school there was a
fellow artist's work that I admired for the skill and and overall style his pieces
possessed.
While watching him work one day I noticed he only used two or maybe three
different pencils on his pieces: a 2B pencil and an Ebony pencil. These pencils are
on the softer side of the spectrum when it comes to pencil hardness.
Tip: Pencil hardness ranges from: 9H-9B with the H end of the spectrum being the
harder and the B obviously the softer. For a little reference your standard school
pencil is HB.
HARDER Middle SOFTER
9H,8H, ,2H,H,F,HB,B,2B, ,8B,9B
He did his preliminary sketches using a mechanical pencil with 2B lead. I used
this technique for quite a while as I had always heard that " A 2B pencil is great
for any job." While this is true at some point in the process I have come to realize
that the softer leads are best suited for cleaning up and redefining the lighter
sketchy lines that need to be bolded
The softer leads, like 2B, are darker and while they are soft they don't erase well if
you put any amount of pressure on the paper. At the same time the harder pencil
leads can leave indents in your paper which will spoil any other lines should you
want to erase them later.
My "Rules" to get the most out of the different