Understanding PENCIL GRADES - What you NEED to know

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Understanding PENCIL GRADES - What you NEED to know

In this episode of Draw Talk we take a look at pencil grades and explain how they work and how to use them. Its really useful to know how each pencil changes with different lead graded from 8B to 2H. In this set of pencils i cover the ones i use a lot.

I hope this video is helpful to those that need it, and i look forward to creating some pencil shading tutorials of you!

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Pencils: Faber-Castell 9000 Art Set 12 x Pencils
Mechanical Pencils: Uni Mechanical Pencil Kurutoga Roulette Model, Gun Metallic, 0.5 mm
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Little bit of history for you :D
The signature of pencils started in 18th century and its creator was Josef Hardtmuth and his company Koh-i-noor. H stands for his surname Hardtmuth, B stands for Ceske Budejovice (the city where the company is based) and F stands for Franz who was an inventor for modern pencil producing machine.
Sorry, can't help lecturing about this xd
PS: Just found your videos and feel totally inspired, thx

autumn.raider
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Rather than pressing harder, Dan, something that you should suggest instead is building up in layers. Pressing harder into the paper makes it harder to put future layers down, but if you gradually build up layers it'll get darker and let you correct mistakes more easily.

SnowblindOtter
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B=Blackness=softness
H=Hardness= lighter marks on paper
F= fine-point

CT
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Lol. I was getting ready to screenshot it and then he said feel free to screenshot it. I was shook.

ShakiraAI
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This was the most helpful video I have watched and it helped me out a lot. Who agrees?

christmascookie
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Omg I remember when I would get so mad because the pencil was to light I really liked dark pencils

dxssiiyt
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I always use my H2 pencil when starting out my drawings with light sketches and building up those light sketches in to basic shapes then full-flesh detailed shapes... and after I am happy with the details I want to keep, I go with at least a HB (its dark but not too dark and smudgy for me unless otherwise) and go over those said details that I want to keep :)

and actually showing what the initials of B, H and F stands for really helps fellow traditional beginner artists so well! so good job on pointing that out (even though I didnt know what the B and H stand for... or even heard of the Fine Point pencils... lol)

MiraNecole
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I have and use these kind of pencils since secondary school but never actually knew what each grades mean, other than “which one’s the lightest and darkest” lollll. This helps me a lot. Thank you! 😊

qrzhsqult
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6:17 I literally said out loud “That’s a good idea!” Then got looked at like I was crazy.

theoreo
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Thank you so much for teaching, I write children’s literature and the animation on my last two books cost me thousands, I’m going to try to learn how to draw my own animations.

mentalfloss
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I tend to use only 3 pencils even though I have a set ranging from 8b to 2h. I usually start with a hardest one very lightly to create the rough shapes and then use a somewhat hard one for most of the detailing and the softest one to make shades and darkest lines. I just use finger smudging to get the gradients between the darkest and lightest.

SteinGauslaaStrindhaug
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Thank you! I just bought a set of graphite pencils and being no artist had no idea what any of them meant. This was a well explained video and a great help.

jennifereggl
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Thank you my friend. I have been looking for this information for a while. I found a pack of this pencils in the trash! there is some missing but i want to know how to draw and get to use them. Great video!

marioalejandro
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this was not a video - this was social work!
Thank you very much for the help. Just bought a 7-pencil set from Cretacolor in an attempt to develop a new hobby and actually re-remember drawing after 15 years and I needed to understand what is what :D

georgiosmitsostergios
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Thank you so much! I am new to realistic graphite drawings, and I just ordered my first set of grade pencils! I looked at so many tutorials on understanding the grades and this one was by far the best! Thanks for making this! Btw I love your handwriting ! Unlike mine it is straight and perfect and readable I LOVE IT!

ashnikfield
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Thank You! just started drawing, needed to learn pencil basics. This was very helpful.

bhajans
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Dan Beard thank you for clarifying that. I noticed that as u used my #4 and #5 and harder lead was harder for me to draw with so I went back with my first choices. But now I can use those fine ones as needed.

susancampos
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You are awesome. I am a beginner and just stumbled on your channel and I have learned more in 2 videos than I have the last week watching video after video. Thank you.

ericasendel
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I loved how simple, modest and straight to the point your presentation are!
Subscribing

ahmeds.mansour
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I just got my first pencil set today and this really helps break it down. I discovered a new passion I never knew I had in drawing and sketching. Thank you for sharing this.
Subbed.

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