2007-08-18 15:30:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
you need to find 5 pencils with lead hardness/softness of HB.
HB's (in pencil) are good sketching pencils.
#2 pencils are what people normally use though
2007-08-18 19:45:38 · answer #1 · answered by mskirbyrobot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I learned this is Art class in college. It is the hardness of the pencil you'll be using for well, whatever you are doing. I can't remember the whole spectrum, but it seems to me that you're going to use a pretty hard pencil. Go to your local art store, or a Pat Catan's, and ask someone to show you where the drawing supplies are. Look at all the packs of pencils. (Or at least check out the variety packs) and look for 5 HB stamped on the pencil, or printed on the packaging.
2007-08-18 15:41:00 · answer #2 · answered by redsonja84 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I received my BFA in Painting & Sculpture two years ago. What I've learned is very different from what others may learn, but there are a few things that happen when creativity is fostered and applauded. The creativity that a young child expresses is the very same creativity that they will use in creating and following their dreams. An education in the hard facts- maths, histories, sciences..they all help to fill in the gaps, but it is the larger sense of self that is exercised and made stronger with art education. Blank pieces of paper become an arena where what is most important to us can become evident. Simultaneously, while we're learning how to draw, and dream we're also learning that there are steps that must be taken in order to give that dream reality. We see very clearly that the more effort and care we put into our image, the closer we come to creating just what we want. The importance of all of this to a developing mind that is still working out just what the world is, how it works, and how they can create their place within it is beyond words, though we owe it to these children and those yet to come to try. The next question becomes, how do we go about creating an educational system that makes quality art education a top priority?
2016-04-02 03:55:03 · answer #3 · answered by Tanisha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The usual pencils go from 6h, 4h, 2h, h, hb b 2b 4b 6b
6H is a hardest lead, 6b is a softest lead.
So I'm not sure what they were asking for...I guess they wanted 5 hb pencils.. though I can't imagine why.
2007-08-18 15:40:06 · answer #4 · answered by Bentley 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
HB pencils is fancy name for no#2 pencil lol. no#2 pencils lead is HB in softness. so either they were being a smart alick or they were being artsy lol
2007-08-18 18:04:26 · answer #5 · answered by peeps you 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
HB; hard & black -as of "5" of them-don't know.-unless they mean "HB,2B, 3B, 4B, 5B.
2007-08-18 16:56:24 · answer #6 · answered by strange-artist 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋