Smith, Thomas [Editor]: The Art Of Drawing In Its Various Branches: Exemplified In A Course Of Twenty-Eight progressive Lessons, Calculated To Afford Those Who Are Unacquainted With The Art, The Means Of Acquiring A Competent Knowledge Without The Aid Of A Master ; Being The Only Work Of The Kind In Which The Principles Of Effect Are Explained In A Clear, Methodical, And At The Same Time Familiar Style. Illustrated With Coloured Designs And Numerous Wood Engravings (London, 1827)

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BB . . . . Very black.

B . . . . Black.

HB ... Hard and black.

F. ... Fine, moderately dark.

H. ... Hard,

HH ... Very hard.5

Of these, I would advise the student to make use of
the double B, the HB, and the H, the single B being
only a worse kind of double B, very crumbly, and apt to
break, which is also the fault of the F, the HB possess-
ing the same colour, with the power of being made much
darker by increasing the pressure, and without the de-
fects of the former pencil; the double H is so extremely
hard, that it is seldom used except by architects. In the
use of the three pencils recommended, the H is adapted for
finishing distances and skies, and sketching architectural
objects in which an extra neatness of line is required ;
with the HB ail the middle distance ought to be finished,
whilst the double B is reserved for the dark broad shade
of the more massive object of the foreground. For the
general purposes of sketching, as well for finished sub-
jects as for outline, the HB is the pencil which ought
always to be used,

Chalk, which ought onlv to be made use of in drawing

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the figure from plaster casts, statues, or the living

model, is sold in long square pieces by all the colour

shops. Black and white are all the colours that are

wanted, red being scarcely ever employed, having almost

ahvays a disagreeable effect. On using chalk, it is put

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