what are the following pencils used for? H pencil? 2H pencil? 2B pencil?

Answer 1

H and 2H are likely the same. They are hard pencils used in GUIDE LINES and CONSTRUCTION LINES. While 2B is mainly used in SHADING or BOLDING lines and OUTLINING. Commonly, 2B has to be often sharpened to help define line values when it comes to shading. It is accompanied by B, 4B and 6B.

If you have any questions regarding this, just ask me. I'm an architecture student so that I may help you.

Answer 2

H pencils are good for technical drawings where specific line thicknesses and control are required. It's individual preference really, but I tend to prefer harder pencils like 2H for draughting, though some may feel that this is too light and prefer H.

2B pencils are good for sketching and general drawing as it's soft enough to allow free flowing strokes, yet hard enough to not smudge too easily. For rougher, broader sketches, softer pencils may be more suitable such as 4B.

Answer 3

I personaly would use a HB/B pencil to do a light sketch as they are medium softness i tend not to use anything harder, then for shading I would use softer pencils 2B,3B,4B and so on...The softer the pencil the darker coulour you will also get :) I think eventually after messing around doodling and experimenting with the different softness etc you will find what suits you best.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

2b Pencil

Answer 6

H and 2H pencils are light so i think there for sketching and the 2B one is bold

Answer 7

Many pencils, particularly those used by artists, are labelled on the European system using a "degree" scale from "H" (for hardness) to "B" (for blackness), as well as "F" (for fine point). The standard writing pencil is "HB."

However, artists' pencils can vary widely in order to provide a range of marks for different visual effects on the page.

Pencils graded with different schemes were used to expand the range of grades, such as 'BB' and 'BBB' for successively softer leads, and 'HH' and 'HHH' for successively harder leads between the early 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.

Today a set of art pencils ranging from a very hard, light-marking pencil to a very soft, black-marking pencil usually ranges from hardest to softest as follows:

9H 8H 7H 6H 5H 4H 3H 2H H F HB B 2B 3B 4B 5B 6B 7B 8B 9B
Hardest → Medium → Softest


Hope this helps and that I haven't bored you TOO much??? haha

More information on pencils???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencils
(the link even mentions of Pencils in Space?? haha)

Answer 8

H pencil is for not drawing but sketching, a 2H is for light sketching, 2B is for drawing normaly, and the rest of the pencils like 6H is for shading.

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Answer 9

as a die maker we used 6h pencils to draw on plywood the lines produced are very fine only a couple of thou wide its for accuracy after drawing the whole lot is sawn out with a jigsaw
this is all done with lasers now
http://www.bmcutters.co.uk/

Answer 10

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