Understanding PENCIL GRADES - What you NEED to know

Little bit of history for you :D The signature of pencils started in 18th century and its creator was Josef Hardtmuth and his company Koh-i-noor. H stands for his surname Hardtmuth, B stands for Ceske Budejovice (the city where the company is based) and F stands for Franz who was an inventor for modern pencil producing machine. Sorry, can't help lecturing about this xd PS: Just found your videos and feel totally inspired, thx

Rather than pressing harder, Dan, something that you should suggest instead is building up in layers. Pressing harder into the paper makes it harder to put future layers down, but if you gradually build up layers it'll get darker and let you correct mistakes more easily.

B=Blackness=softness H=Hardness= lighter marks on paper F= fine-point

Lol. I was getting ready to screenshot it and then he said feel free to screenshot it. I was shook.

Omg I remember when I would get so mad because the pencil was to light I really liked dark pencils

I have and use these kind of pencils since secondary school but never actually knew what each grades mean, other than “which one’s the lightest and darkest” lollll. This helps me a lot. Thank you! 😊

This was the most helpful video I have watched and it helped me out a lot. Who agrees?

I always use my H2 pencil when starting out my drawings with light sketches and building up those light sketches in to basic shapes then full-flesh detailed shapes... and after I am happy with the details I want to keep, I go with at least a HB (its dark but not too dark and smudgy for me unless otherwise) and go over those said details that I want to keep :) and actually showing what the initials of B, H and F stands for really helps fellow traditional beginner artists so well! so good job on pointing that out (even though I didnt know what the B and H stand for... or even heard of the Fine Point pencils... lol)

6:17 I literally said out loud “That’s a good idea!” Then got looked at like I was crazy.

I love his Handwriting!!!

2:26 Starts, your welcome

Thank you! I just bought a set of graphite pencils and being no artist had no idea what any of them meant. This was a well explained video and a great help.

Thank you so much for teaching , I write children’s literature and the animation on my last two books cost me thousands, I’m going to try to learn how to draw my own animations.

Thank you my friend. I have been looking for this information for a while. I found a pack of this pencils in the trash! there is some missing but i want to know how to draw and get to use them. Great video!

Thx for the video. I showed it to my 7 year old drawing fanatic so she’d know about the different pencil types ✏️👍🎉💥

his handwriting is better than a poetry artist

this was not a video - this was social work! Thank you very much for the help. Just bought a 7-pencil set from Cretacolor in an attempt to develop a new hobby and actually re-remember drawing after 15 years and I needed to understand what is what :D

I tend to use only 3 pencils even though I have a set ranging from 8b to 2h. I usually start with a hardest one very lightly to create the rough shapes and then use a somewhat hard one for most of the detailing and the softest one to make shades and darkest lines. I just use finger smudging to get the gradients between the darkest and lightest.

Thanks so much for this video. It seems like you can find just about anything you want to know on YouTube nowadays. I am new to the different grades of pencils. Until I watched this video, I had know idea of the differences. Thanks again man. I really appreciate the walk through. I definitely got my screenshot 🤝👍👍👍

I have just started a beginners Art Class & my first 'homework' was to draw out a Pencil Grading chart! Your video was perfect - thank you 😊