School is in session! I’m going to give you Pencil 101. Did you know art must be learned block by block just like math or science? We always start with pencils!
For great art you need different kinds of lines, darks, lights, etc. and for that you need a range of pencils. They’re numbered like this:
9H 8H 7H 6H 5H 4H 3H 2H HB 2B 3B 4B ..... to 9B.
All the pencils in your house are either 2H, HB or 2B, grouped under the name ‘#2 pencils.’
H stands for hard, and these are light pencils, 9H being nearly invisible. The super hard pencils can also be sharpened to a deadly point and used as a lethal weapon.
B stands for black, and the get continually darker out to 9B, the blackest and most dastardly of all.* These pencils will break when you drop them because the graphite is so soft, to make dark marks. So, drop your H pencils.
If you look at the points as in the second photo, the fattest graphite is the darkest pencil, the skinniest would be the lightest. So, you don’t even need the pencil name to know what you want! 🙂. Any questions? 🙂
*art people, I’m simplifying. I know what you’re thinking.
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