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.
wanted to play satisfactory today. This somehow completely broke my desktop environment. One thing lead to another and I'm waiting right now for Linux to completely reinstall.
Been asked to do some last minutes beta testing on a certain Tim Burton inspired adventure game about deaths daughter that is coming out quite soon. I don't think I should talk about it too much. But if anybody knows what I'm talking about and is looking forward to it: I think the game is exactly what it promises to be.
feeling really weird today, for no discernable reason at all. At least I still managed to pick up a pencil and do... this
I seem to be getting a bit sloppy with the uploads. Still drawing these every day, and making a tiny bit of progress with each. But I always forget to post.
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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?