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scoobycct
Starting Member
USA
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 Posted - 07/27/2004 : 10:47:32 PM
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What types of pencil leads are best for drawing comics? I can't find a good website that explains the difference between all the types. 3H, HB, etc.
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Billy T
New Member
USA
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Posted - 07/27/2004 : 11:04:09 PM
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the higher the number, the softer the lead....
a regular pencil is an hb, quite hard and not that great to draw with
I use 2h and 4h in a mechanical pencil to draw with.....
and you never have to sharpen a pencil...i hate sharpening pencils...
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Leigh_Sims
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 07/29/2004 : 2:27:02 PM
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It depends on whther or not theres an H, a B, or an F next to the number.
Like Billy T said, an HB is like your regular no.2 pencil An H is a little lighter and the bigger the number next to the H the harder the pencil and the lighter the lines, to Hard and to much pressure on the pencil can result in indentations. With a B, As most fine arts graphite artist use, its a little darker than a HB. The bigger number next to the B, the SOFTER the lead so the darker the lines and its easier to smudge. Go to soft, and its amost like using a charcoal pencil and gets really messy. I think an F is somewhere inbetween(Though I'm not sure since I haven't had the oppurtunity to test one as of yet.)
Most Illustrators and/or Comic Book artist use an 3 or four h lead for the initial layout, a 2 h to tighten up the lines, and an hb for finer detail. The H lead allows their lines to be very tight and makes it easier for the inker since ink seems to only settle on the surface with a B lead and can accidental be earaced off with the pencil lines.
A fine arts graphite artist is more likely to use an HB for the outline/contour of a drawing, a 2b for shading, and then a 6b for dark shading since , because B pencils tend to smudge,, they use it to their advantage to blend in extremely realistic shadows. A few I've had the opportunity to see were amazingly pealistic and it was hard to tell the difference between it and a black and white photograph.
Hope this helps :D
Rachael
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scoobycct
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 08/07/2004 : 12:05:47 AM
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Thanks for all your help. I just bought the mechanical .5mm pencil with all of the different lead types. Now it's time to just try them out and play around.
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Pencil Lead
