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Drawing Supplies Exercise: Draw Spoons
now that you've tried drawing with. Just a regular pencil. You all got something pretty good. It looks like let's get out some artist pencils. Makes it just a little bit more complicated. So these we have a variety of these and they all have these numbers on the end to H. Six B. H. B. Two B. Four B. B. Um Let's put them in order of hard, too soft. The H. It's actually some word that doesn't stand for hard but we call it H. For hard. Um The higher the number the harder it is. So our hardest one we have is going to be A. Two H. Then the next one in the line of pencils. The next one that comes around is going to be an H. And then there's gonna be an F. Which I kind of think stands for fine. I don't know what it stands for. Um And then you're gonna get your H. B. Your H. B. Is the one that generally fits your regular old yellow pencil Or # two. Sometimes they call it number two pencil. Um Then you get your B. And that's getting a little softer and you're to be and your four B. And your six...
B. And they go up to eight B. And you can get a whole lot more variety but you really I don't think you need any more than that. So how do you learn about these Make a chart? Try him out. Um You know don't ask someone all the details about them and talk yourself out of it. Just have a few pencils make a chart and try and wear out your pencils. Starting with the two. H grab anything around you a really simple shape. We're gonna do spoons. Okay, so a little bit of chicken scratching here just while I try and find my line where I think it's gonna go gets wider at the end. Okay then I have this nice little parallel band and mine. I don't want too much decoration. If you do have like a big swirly curly pattern on the end of your spoon and it's not really your style and you don't like it. You should make up your own pattern or your own style or just draw a big scribble or a leaf or something because that's your artistic license. You don't have to keep that pattern. That happens to be my grandmother's old china. There is her old silver. I just wanted to find something really tarnished. Mm hmm. Okay. Parallel line in here. This my pencil is not getting dull, is it? It's staying very sharp and very hard. And I'm trying to do that technique where I do push down heavy and pull up light and not much is happening. So why would I want to use this pencil? Well, my first reason I use this pencil is when I'm measuring paper and I want a very fine line because I'm gonna cut it and I want to know exactly where my measurement was. It's not a big old thick fuzzy line. I pick up my hardest finest pencil. Another time we're going to use, this is when it comes up to do our tracing and are transferring. When we're transferring a drawing, transfer the finest line that we can, we're gonna get our hardest pencil. Okay so I kind of see how I can draw a plane line with it. Let's try some shading. Let's see. I've got a bunch of lights in this room. So I have all kinds of highlights. I'm going to just circle a few of them because that would look weird if all of my spoons happened to be in the film studio with all kinds of lights on. Uh So there there's a few things I circle those are gonna be my highlights. And I also think That's 1 2. Yeah. Change the environment of your of your drawings to you don't have to always be drawing in your living room couch or wherever. You can change your light to look like you're drawing outside somewhere. Nice. Okay so now I'm using the but the edge of my pencil, let's see how dark I can get it. That's pretty dark. Oh that gets really dark to see like as it gets really wiggly though in there when I'm pressing hard. But notice I haven't broken the lead. Okay I'm gonna try, I'm gonna screen my eyes and find the darkest part that's in the bottom of the bowl. Okay well that does get pretty dark. Seems like it just wait. Okay and I think it's dark around here and I think I'm going to try and draw a little bit of this shadow. It's kind of neat because it goes up here and it makes it pencil look I mean the spoon have some three dimension to it. It's kind of this weird wiggly thing. Okay okay so it's pretty light. That's pretty hard. Haven't broken my lead. That's about what I think I can do with a two H. Pencil. So try the next one. HB. But the good thing about drawing things when you're making your charts and experimenting you could also do it in drawing little rectangles and experiment. But this way you get your drawing practice in and you really see how they're used there. You can kind of understand it here but you don't really get the hang of how you would use it on the actual object. Okay. Mhm. Okay so just keep going along trying everything all your different lines, all your different shadings with each pencil and I'm gonna move on what to share. So I'm really fast at drawing. Um I did my b. Got a little harder my to be I four B. Now let's see what happens when I do my six B. 60. If you look at it really close up. Where's my two weeks two H. Like the lead itself is even wider and thicker. We're like that. Let's see what it does draw my spoon again. Oh it feels very soft. I'm I'm not pressing very hard and I'm already worried I'm gonna break it but it's drawing very darkly for how much I'm pressing. I had to really dig in hard to get that darkness and here I'm not pressing too much. Okay, save some highlights, squint my eyes. Let's see where's my darkest spot in my spoon right here. Let's scrub it and see oh that's pretty dark. It feels really buttery. Yeah. Okay try blending it. Oh yeah, blends out really nicely too. So when would I use this one? I would use this if I'm doing a big free drawing that may be the drawing with the pencil is is the end result. And I'm just gonna save that drawing and hang it up like this. I would probably use this if I'm doing a drawing that I'm going to do some painting over the top of it. Not so much because this graphite is gonna lift again and mix with my paints and change the color of my paints. Okay let's see what happens when we draw on the side because this is so long and wide. Like makes a very wide shadow. Look at how wide that gets. That's pretty cool. You can really adjust it to make it thinner and sicker just by the angle of your pencil. Okay I think I'm getting the hang of that more now so you can choose if you want these thin lines or these big, wide, soft swaths of color.
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