Real creative instrument for amateur and professional artists, the pencil can give rise to very specific and amazing effects. Among large families, we can cite the watercolors pencils, Pencils wood and the graphite pencils. At first glance, watercolors pencils look like ordinary color pencils.
But once diluted in water, they can create many effects. As part of a painting done in watercolor, watercolors pencils are perfect for making small details like the play of shadow and light, faces, foliage or glare and sparkling water. They blend perfectly with the watercolor painting, which allows for more detailed and finer works. Used alone, it is ideal for outdoor work and help make thumbnail sketches or detailed illustrations.
There are two types of pencils watercolors: soft and hard mines mines.
Tender ones are ideal for achieving wash drawing while hard mines make it easier to process the details and lines. A beginner prefer to start with soft lead pencils, easier to dilute and use.
Colored pencils are much more known because they are used by children to make drawings from an early age. But their use does not stop there because the Pencils are excellent wood working tools for artists, amateurs and even professionals. Whether in the fields of design, illustration, comic strip or the animation ... The wooden pencils are tools that are both practical and accurate as they offer a huge selection of pigments , binders, and colors. The colors are broken down to infinity and it is possible to make very many mixtures directly on the medium used. Depending on the paper and its basis weight rendering colored pencils will be different. This is a popular tool for beginners as it offers very good results without requiring further learning. With colored pencils in wood, it is possible to trace, chop, overlay, color, detail ... In short, the artistic possibilities are virtually unlimited.
Finally, the graphite pencils. Like Pencils, they are used from an early age by schoolchildren and budding designers. But graphite pencils are also used by leading artists and illustrators worldwide. It is an essential tool that comes in different degrees of hardness. Manufacturers use the letter H to denote hard mines pencils and the letter B for soft pencils mines. Associated dialing (eg 2B or 4H) can know the exact degree of hardness or tenderness. Pencils are the most commonly used medium hardness (B and 2B). For detail work or sketches, it is preferable to use darker tender mines (4B and 5B). For a good start, it is advisable to have a pencil B and 2B, a 4B pencil sketches and a graphite rod 2B to achieve solids easily.
