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Choosing Your Drawing Pencils
Drawing pencils have come back with a vengeance with the backing of better technology and improved manufacturing facilities. Earlier we had only the black graphite drawing pencils but now a full range of colored drawing pencils are available.
Some costly ranges provide almost 250 colors of drawing pencils including some basic metallic colors in the set of drawing pencils. Many different kinds of drawing pencils are available at your stationery and art supplier.
The choice has become extremely wide for the artist. You should not just simply go out and purchase each and every type of drawing pencil which is available at your supplier. You need to understand the use of a particular type of drawing pencil before you jump to give it a try.
- Normal Graphite Drawing Pencils: These are the traditional pencils made of graphite with varying hardness ranging from 9H to 9B. 9H being the hardest of all and with lightest the mark, the 9B pencils are the softest and the darkest. While the hard pencils are typically used for expressing detailed lines, the soft pencils are used for bold and dark expressive lines and shadings.
- Charcoal Drawing Pencils: These pencils are also available with varying degree of hardness and are similarly labeled as the graphite pencils. These are much softer than the graphite pencils and wear out quickly but produce richer blacker lines.
- Eraser Pencils: These are drawing pencils but instead of a graphite core, have a rubber core used for erasing minute portion of the drawing as required by the artist. These can be use to erase pinpoints on the drawing.
- Blending Tortillions: these are pencil shaped stumps of paper which are essentially used for blending drawing created using different drawing pencils.
