STAEDTLER 110-4B Tradition Graphite Pencil for Drawing & Sketching - 4B (Box of 12)

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There are certain "signs" you can use as a base, but you need to try it yourself to understand how to draw a fur clump.

Its quality and finely graduated degrees of hardness have made it a firm favourite with artists and illustrators.

This "clumping" can occur in all dimensions, creating either "waves" of hair or small separate clumps.

Therefore, a "4H" pencil will produce lighter marks than an "2H" pencil while a "4B" pencil will make darker marks than a "2B" pencil. The 2B pencil is almost smack dab in the middle of the pencil hardness scale, while leaning a tad more on the softness side. When you draw fur by drawing individual hairs, what you're really drawing is skin illuminated from below, with hairs blocking the light. For pencils using a B, the higher the B, the softer that the pencil will be, which means a darker mark.Although most of us have heard someone refer to the material within a graphite pencil as "lead", you may be surprised to learn that there isn't any lead there at all. Available in different sets filled with a wide variety of grades, both beginners and professionals swear by Derwent. pencils should be used to render in areas of your drawing that are in deep shadow where very little light reaches. Once you understand the type of lines you can expect from your pencils, it's easy to mix and match to put together a graphite pencil set that will cover your needs as an artist.