i mean what about #1 pencils, or #3. who came up with that anyways, and how did they come up with it????i NEED to know!
2007-03-25 10:18:04 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
Go to the local art store and you will find a wide variety of # ed pencils for example I have a box of 12 premium sketching and drawing pencils grades: 4H,3H,H, HB, B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 8B. The H stands for Hard. B's are easy to smear and use for shading and easy to erase. The number #2 is relatively soft and easier to erase so most schools and voting ballots use #2 as the type to use. The number stands for the degree of more or less hardness.
2007-03-25 10:34:19 · answer #1 · answered by old_school_granma 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, there are all sorts of leaded pencils. HB #2 pencils are used mostly for school purposes because they are medium soft hard. The softer the pencil the more it smuges which is why you don't use #1 I think. Then if the pencil is very hard it indents the paper and doesn't leave much of a mark. There are more types of pencils that #1 #2 and #3...there are H 1-something and HB 1-something. Then there are also charcol pencils and colored pencils.
2007-03-25 10:29:20 · answer #2 · answered by Hales 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pencils AREN'T only #2. There are a lot of other types of pencils out there, including number one, three and four. There are even halves. The number is there to indicate the hardness of the graphite. The lower the number, the softer the graphite. Number two pencils are the most common because they're not so soft that they smudge easily or so hard that the lines they make are hard to see.
2007-03-25 10:37:16 · answer #3 · answered by pumker99 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are such things as 1 and 3 pencils, there are even a few larger ones. The difference is the thickness of the lead, 1s are too skinny to use in everyday writing and work perfect for small details in drawings and 3s are too thick to use for everyday writing but work great for shading and other drawing aspects. Look up #3 pencils on google and you'll get some more info.
2007-03-26 08:42:18 · answer #4 · answered by Gretchen M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually there are more than number 2 pencils. For example, the graphite in mechanical pencils is .7 and others. And just a few weeks ago i almost used a 2.5 pencil on a standardized test. Others are out there, you just may not notice them.
2007-03-25 10:23:50 · answer #5 · answered by Another_name 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Somebody else NEEDED to know how hard a given "lead" was, too, so the industry established a grading system. The numbers themselves mean little in an absolute sense (a #4 isn't twice as hard as a #2, for instance), but they make your choice of pencil more-predictable.
2007-03-25 10:23:47 · answer #6 · answered by Yesugi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The number 2 refers to the hardness of the lead. You use a number 2 for standardized testing because that's what the computer that scores the test picks up. Number 1 is too light and number 3 is too dark.
2016-03-29 04:27:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are other numbers. Pencil "lead" is actually a mixture of clay and graphite. The numbers are used to indicate the strength of the graphite mixture.
2007-03-25 10:27:47 · answer #8 · answered by spotjohnson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Graphite pencils are graded according to the concentration of graphite. This effects their hardness and the amount of pigment they lay down on the paper.
To learn more and see a graph of the hardness and darkness of graphite pencils, please visit the following link:
http://www.pencilsandpixelsart.com/penci...
2007-03-27 12:11:33 · answer #9 · answered by pencilsandpixelsart 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
#1 is real it is a artist pencil
#3 is real it is another artists pencil
#2 is for tests and usually schoolers dont use artist pencils
C.M.T's and S.A.T's stink!!!!!!!!!
2007-03-25 10:23:25 · answer #10 · answered by Mike S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋