bought a mechanical pencil today. They also had a bargain bin with unpopular lead, so I bought a bunch with different hardnesses, to see if I could figure out what this hardness stuff is about. I couldn't really, though I did clearly feel a difference between the bargain bin stuff and the packet of caran dache leads I also bought.
I was already in bed, and then realized that I didn't draw anything today. So here's a a scribble. Good night.
Playing more Pokémon, and noticing that the magnet fishing channel I have running on the second screen has to call police almost every other episode. Making me once again realize that I do live in a country that has to quietly dispose an average of 2 pieces of unexploded WW II Ordnance a day.
Made a big mistake, and started playing Pokémon emerald again. There goes all my free time for the next week or so.
Haven't used crayons since primary school.
Done, as far as I'm concerned. Even better, just got the notification that a new chapter is available.
Also adding the original I copied from.
One more character to go.
Only arrived back home just now due to circumstances. And post 1 am is just not the time to continue the maid skate drawing.
The important half of the panel is now finished. And damn, if I didn't impress myself with it.
It's only got 9 chapters, and it's really dumb. But I just can't get the maid skater Manga out of my head, so I just had to try and recreate this one panel.
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Yep, it's about hardness, and how dark it is. I read somewhere, that for technical drawing harder lead is supposedly better. So I tested it. But even the 6H is not that different from the HB (and the photo makes it look a bit more pronounced than it is to my eye), so I'm not sure that it really matters for where I'm at.
But the F, 4H and 6H are all from a no-name brand in the bargain bin at the store, and using them feels almost like scratching the paper with a needle, whereas the HB and ? (which was the lead already in the pencil when I bought it) felt a lot nicer to use. If the scratching was due to lead hardness, then F should feel a lot closer to HB then to 6H, as far as I understand. And it doesn't...
So I learned at least something from this.
I wonder how many times I'll break that thin lead in the long term, though I do feel like I've gotten quite a bit better with my pen handling by using the fine liners.
I have a heavy left hand, and couldn't use thinner lead back in the day. Ah, but looking at your stuff, it looks like hardness and how dark it'll get?