Wood or Mechanical Pencils - which pencils should you use?
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It's five years to the
It's five years to the day that I posted my first YouTube video so today is a bit of a celebration! The video was showing how to use pencils and how to draw my character, the Ginger Ninja. How to draw the Ginger Ninja - My ver...
So today I thought I would talk about pencils again and explain the differences between traditional wooden pencils and mechanical pencils. You can see how traditional wooden pencils are made it this terrific video from Derwent Video It's introduced by my friend Alex Farthing, who runs the Pencil Museum in Keswick, when I will be on October 23 24 25th 2013 - see you there!
The main difference is the leads. Pencils don's actually use lead, they use graphite. Wooden pencils mix graphite with clay to add strength and wax to make them a bit smoother. The more clay, the harder the pencil. Hard = H Soft = B so the standard HB pencil is in the middle - a Goldilocks pencil - not to hard and not too soft!
Mechanical pencils can have very fine leads which mean you don't have to sharpen them. But this puts huge strain on the lead while you draw. So they are are graphite mixed with polymers to give extra strength. If you press lightly, I find Hi Polymer leads erase more cleanly, so they are slightly better for underdrawing of pen and ink drawings.
Wooden pencils allow the lead to shape itself and you can use the lead sideways on for more effect. I always feel more "connected" to ideas and feelings when I use a wooden pencil - if you know what I mean!
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I use a Rotring Tikky Graphic 0.3 pen and copic ciao marker pens. The paper is fairly cheap drawing cartridge or bristol paper.
Find out more about me and my books at my website http://www.shoorayner.com.
and my apps at http://bit.ly/kPo5pb
Look me up on Amazon or in your local bookstore. I've illustrated over 200 books in my time! Enjoy!
So today I thought I would talk about pencils again and explain the differences between traditional wooden pencils and mechanical pencils. You can see how traditional wooden pencils are made it this terrific video from Derwent Video It's introduced by my friend Alex Farthing, who runs the Pencil Museum in Keswick, when I will be on October 23 24 25th 2013 - see you there!
The main difference is the leads. Pencils don's actually use lead, they use graphite. Wooden pencils mix graphite with clay to add strength and wax to make them a bit smoother. The more clay, the harder the pencil. Hard = H Soft = B so the standard HB pencil is in the middle - a Goldilocks pencil - not to hard and not too soft!
Mechanical pencils can have very fine leads which mean you don't have to sharpen them. But this puts huge strain on the lead while you draw. So they are are graphite mixed with polymers to give extra strength. If you press lightly, I find Hi Polymer leads erase more cleanly, so they are slightly better for underdrawing of pen and ink drawings.
Wooden pencils allow the lead to shape itself and you can use the lead sideways on for more effect. I always feel more "connected" to ideas and feelings when I use a wooden pencil - if you know what I mean!
With award winning illustrator, Shoo Rayner. See Shoo's books on amazon.com http://amzn.to/Jp6YEW and on amazon.co.uk http://amzn.to/J9lBvk
Twitter Twitter: shoorayner
Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/117947137...
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?i...
Website http://www.shoorayner.com
music by cleffernotes
Follow Shoo's other channel shooraynerlife
I use a Rotring Tikky Graphic 0.3 pen and copic ciao marker pens. The paper is fairly cheap drawing cartridge or bristol paper.
Find out more about me and my books at my website http://www.shoorayner.com.
and my apps at http://bit.ly/kPo5pb
Look me up on Amazon or in your local bookstore. I've illustrated over 200 books in my time! Enjoy!
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