Primarily for questions involving graphite pencils as a medium. Also for general pencil questions that are medium independent, such as grip. Use the colored pencil and charcoal tags for those specific mediums.
Questions tagged [pencils]
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Differences between HB pencils
Pencils seem to have different types:
From what I've seen, there's a few types:
HB
2HB
B
and so on.
What's the difference between all the different pencils? When do I use one or the other?
Zizouz212
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How to draw a heat blur from an aircraft engine
How would you draw a heatblur from the engine of an aircraft, I am drawing this:
how would I draw the blur that trails the aircraft (Heatblur)? Mind, I'm not drawing the background, just the aircraft
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anonymous
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How to scan pencil drawings to get good dynamic range?
I've recently started graphite pencil drawings and would like to digitize my drawings. I've experimented with my document scanner (Canon Pixma MX 340) and my camera (Canon PowerShot G5 X Mark III). I am not really happy with either. Let me show a…
Martin Ueding
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Why do my 0.5 mm pencil leads shatter?
I have a rOtring Rapid PRO 0.5 and I have bought Faber-Castell Super-Polymer 0.5 mm B leads online which arrived in the post and seem to be fine. I load a couple into my rOtring but each time I click, it seems to break the lead and a little piece…
Nic Cottrell
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Cleaning pencil dust without brushing it off?
I have a problem with the graphite dust that accumulates on graphite pencil drawings. The usual approach is to brush it off periodically with a very soft bush, but I'm in a situation where brushing graphite dust onto things would not be acceptable.…
Deqanix
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So what exactly is the difference between a carbon pencil and a graphite pencil?
What is the exact difference between a carbon pencil and a regular graphite pencil? I tried looking it up but nothing really told me.
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