Decoding the Graphite Grading Scale
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- Опубликовано: 8 май 2024
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They might seem basic, but there’s so much more to pencils than meets the eye. And whatever your goals, you can bet there’s a drawing pencil out there that’s right for you. But how to choose with so many options?
📏 Get to know the graphite scale: did you know there's a whole grading system for drawing pencil leads? Learning the basics (from H to B!) will help you find the perfect pencil for any technique.
🟠 Find the right shape: Round, hex, triangular…fine art pencils come in range of shapes. It’s worth trying out a few to find what you like.
🌲 What's on the outside counts - the casing! From fragrant California incense-cedar to sturdy pine to pencils without any wood at all, barrels can affect how well a pencil sharpens and how long it lasts.
Of course, when it comes to drawing pencils, you can’t really stop at just one. Sets come in all the essential grades, so you can perfect your practice across all kinds of techniques and applications.
Thoughts? Opinions? Bad pencil puns? Share them below! ⬇️
👩🏻🎨 Presentation by Becca from our Merchandising Team
😁 Thanks to our vendor partners at Winsor & Newton, Blackwing & Faber-Castell for the footage
🎥 Filmed at BLICK Studios in Chicago, Illinois
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I love love love pencils, so this was cool! I also didn't know California had the most desirable pencil wood -- shoutout California, woo! Good job presenter.
Thank you! There are also excellent quality pencils made of other wood, and manufacturers like Faber-Castell responsibly manage their own timber resources
No quite honestly. No one believes there is lead (Mercury) in pencils.
This video was about graphite, so we didn't delve deeply into the whole story, but there was a rational basis for people believing that pencil lead was toxic lead. There was really lead in pencils until well into the 20th century, but not in the part you write with. The paint used on the barrels of some pencils contained lead (yellow lead chromate) until 1978 when lead paint was banned for consumer applications. Really, though, the confusion about lead and graphite started in the late 1500s when a very pure graphite deposit was discovered in England. The concept of carbon isotopes simply didn't exist at the time, and it was assumed that graphite was "black lead", a term still used for graphite today. We still meet many people who believe that a puncture from an older pencil poses a health risk, even though many of us have little tiny "tattoos" from an accidental poke. Hope this helps clear up the confusion!
This video is a fail. It would have been helpful for you to demonstrate the marks each pencil makes, so that someone like me would know which pencil grade makes the darkest marks, and how easy each pencil grade can be erased. Also it would be helpful to know how fragile each grade of pencil is. There is a brand of highly pigmented colored pencils I will not use because the tip breaks while getting sharpened, breaking the flow of my creativity. Would it have been that hard to include information about the fragility, darkness, and permanency of each grade of pencil?
We're sorry this video didn't include all the facts you wanted in the limited time we had to work with. The graphite hardness scale introduced in 1910 by Faber Castell has 2 ranges: B (for 'black') and H (for 'hard) with HB ('hard-black') and F ('firm', or 'fine' depending on the source). HB is the same as a #2 writing pencil, and F is a little harder than that. In the B range, the higher the number before the B, the softer the lead, and the darker the mark it will make. In the H range, the higher the number, the harder the lead, and the lighter the mark. Soft leads break more easily than hard ones, but they usually come in wider diameters which gives them a little more strength. Permanence is the same with all graphite pencils; they are all highly lightfast and will not fade even with long exposure to UV light. Ease of erasing has a lot to do with the paper and the artist's technique, so there's no simple answer to that. Hope this helps!
I found it pretty informative, considering its brevity. I didn't even know the U.S. had its own grading system.