Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Finding your ideal Pencil!

Choose a lead hardness for standard or mechanical pencils. Lead hardness can be pretty confusing. Here are the basics.
  • The usual medium hardness is called HB. This corresponds to a #2 pencil. If the pencil or the lead is not labeled, there's a good chance this is the hardness.
  • The softest leads make the darkest lines. The hardest leads make the lightest lines. If you are drawing, you might outline with a harder lead, then darken and shade with a softer lead.
  • If you will be shaping the lead, softer leads are easier and faster to shape but also lose their crisp edges more quickly, with the opposite effect for harder leads.
  • Hardness runs from 9B (softest) to 9H (hardest). Numbered hardness values may be listed in the U.S.Image:Pencil_hardness_452.jpg
MECHANICAL pencils

    Decide between a mechanical pencil and a traditional pencil.
  • Best part about it is the uniformity in width of the line but a mechanical pencil may not be always the artists best tool when it comes to sketching.
  • If you are a heavy-handed writer who presses hard, try a 0.9mm pencil. 0.9mm pencils are usually darker because they are about twice as thick as regular lead.
  • Pick a 0.5mm if you like to write lighter and easier. 0.5mm pencils have more precision so you can write in tiny places and it can still be legible.
  • If you are in between, buy a 0.7mm pencil. 0.7mm pencils have a good medium lead size.
  • Other sizes are available for artists and drafters, but larger leads may need to be sharpened even though they are in a mechanical pencil and finer leads may be very delicate.
  • In general, larger diameter leads give more flexibility when you are sharpening the lead, a technique used in drafting and sketching.

How to Draw:Straight Lines

As most people I used to concentrate and stare at the nib of my pen or pencil in combination with biting my tongue when I needed to draw a straight line. The results were more than often not very satisfying.Then I read about this simple trick.
 Instead of looking at the drawing tool in slow movement look at the endpoint of your line i.e. fixate the goal of the line and draw the line in fast movement.
Believe it or not that helps a lot.
Try yourself ..after one sheet A4 of straight lines you will see the effect





HERE IS A STEP BY STEP DEMONSTRATION:




 STEP 1: Decide your Starting point


STEP 2: Decide an End point



STEP 3: Keep your Focus on only the End Point






 And presto!you have successfully drawn your straight line...Take Pride and Relax. :)

                               This method is only proved successful when practiced thoroughly.Start with really small lines and move onto bigger ones.