How to Choose a Sketching Pencil Video

How to Choose a Sketching Pencil

This "How to Choose a Sketching Pencil" video requires the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.
Download Flash

Get Flash

More From Drawing & Painting

Please Rate

Send

Send to Your Friends

Use Your Email Software Or:

Send to: (enter email addresses, seperated by commas)

Your Name:

Your Email:

Your personal Message (optional):

Favorite

Favorites

This video has been added to 'My Favorites' in your studio.

This video has been removed from 'My Favorites' in your studio.

Loved this video? To add it to your faves, please Log in or Sign up now!

Flag

Flag this as Inappropriate

If you find this video to be inappropriate or offensive for any reason, please select a reason for reporting it from the dropdown menu below.

Reason

We are committed to reviewing each and every one of your submissions.

If you are the copyright owner of this video and believe it has been uploaded without your permission, please follow these instructions in order to submit a copyright infringement notice.

Videos Shared:

Member Since:

6/10/08

By: AshleyArt

Welcome to AshleyArt studios at 5min.com.

Video Info:

How to videos/ Arts videos / Drawing & Painting videos

Views:6,363 Rating:0 Comments:1

Ashley explains how to choose the ideal pencil to draw with for you next artistic endevour.

Added: 6/10/08

Tags:

dark drawing h hb pencil soft Technique

URL:

Embed: (More)

Comment on this Video

Your Name: Email (optional):

Are you human?

Comments
Add-ons
Links
Transcript

By: Guest More than a year ago

thanks so much.i now understand how to use my pencils you explain'd it very well

Reply to this Comment

How to Choose a Sketching Pencil

Hi, I’m Ashley. Welcome to my studio. Today, we’re going to be talking drying materials basics, the pencil. So, when selecting a pencil for your artwork that you would like make you really want to take and to consideration the hardness of a pencil. With most pencils you will have an H and a B. A B will be the softest pencil meaning and by soft I mean the graphite in the pencil will be soft and the H pencil is a harder pencil. I like to use a harder pencil to start my work because I tend a very heavy hand and if I start with the softer pencil, if I make a mistake it’s you have a lot of graphite or you redone the paper and you can’t work over it and you can’t really. It’s harder to take away than to add more. So, when I talking about hardness of the graphite in the pencil, the H pencils are the hardest. So, this is a 6H pencil, this is almost, I sometimes used a 9H pencil which is basically the hardest pencil that you can get, and this is 6H pencil. It’s about the hardest you can get and I’m going to show you exactly what the line looks like when you draw with the 6H pencil. It’s a very, very hard pencil so it’s not going to make a very dark line. If you want to have a darker line with just one stroke you rather use a softer pencil which would be the first hardest pencil is in H pencil, and this is the H pencil and this is the line that an H pencil would make. And if you can see here it’s a lot darker than the 6H pencil. And then even softer than the H pencil is a B pencil and this is actually a 2B pencil. This is about the third softest pencil that there is available. And you can see this next to the H pencil and this makes a much darker line and this will go to about I think a 9B pencil also. Very dark line and it’s going to be lot harder to erase. I frankly do not like to use B-pencils unless I have very, very dark area in drawing that I would not want to use an H pencil for because it would takes a lot longer to absolutely make it dark. So, that’s about it for pencils.

Featured Links:

How to Choose Good Pencil Drawing Tutorials

Ever read a crappy drawing tutorial lately? Here's how to choose good drawing tutorials.

http://www.articlesbase.com/art-articles/how-to-choose-good-pencil-drawing-tutorials-287086.html/9461024403

Hi, I’m Ashley. Welcome to my studio. Today, we’re going to be talking drying materials basics, the pencil. So, when selecting a pencil for your artwork that you would like make you really want to take and to consideration the hardness of a pencil. With most pencils you will have an H and a B. A B will be the softest pencil meaning and by soft I mean the graphite in the pencil will be soft and the H pencil is a harder pencil.

I like to use a harder pencil to start my work because I tend a very heavy hand and if I start with the softer pencil, if I make a mistake it’s you have a lot of graphite or you redone the paper and you can’t work over it and you can’t really. It’s harder to take away than to add more.

So, when I talking about hardness of the graphite in the pencil, the H pencils are the hardest. So, this is a 6H pencil, this is almost, I sometimes used a 9H pencil which is basically the hardest pencil that you can get, and this is 6H pencil. It’s about the hardest you can get and I’m going to show you exactly what the line looks like when you draw with the 6H pencil.

It’s a very, very hard pencil so it’s not going to make a very dark line. If you want to have a darker line with just one stroke you rather use a softer pencil which would be the first hardest pencil is in H pencil, and this is the H pencil and this is the line that an H pencil would make. And if you can see here it’s a lot darker than the 6H pencil.

And then even softer than the H pencil is a B pencil and this is actually a 2B pencil. This is about the third softest pencil that there is available. And you can see this next to the H pencil and this makes a much darker line and this will go to about I think a 9B pencil also. Very dark line and it’s going to be lot harder to erase.

I frankly do not like to use B-pencils unless I have very, very dark area in drawing that I would not want to use an H pencil for because it would takes a lot longer to absolutely make it dark. So, that’s about it for pencils.

Transcription by: Scribe4you Transcription Services