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We generally start looking at value in terms of all the different gradations of value you
can create because everything in our real world has a whole range of values from white
to black. And there's all these grays in between. I first have a demonstration of a series of
charcoals that come in a variation of gray of grays so that you could get from a light
gray all the way down to a black. It's much harder to do this. Here's a black charcoal
and the only you can't really get really light with this. We can we can ease it out that
way by smudging it. And you can put on more and get a darker value. But you're never going
to get with just one charcoal, this whole range. In pencil, you can normally we find
that there's between nine and twelve different scales of value. And in this one I've done
with different pencils. Pencils have different weights. So here's a very light pencil, the
F. And that's good for making a very light value if you want to make a very dark value
you need like a seven, eight or nine B to get as close to black as you can get with
a pencil. Graphite is never going to be as black as charcoal. You can see the difference.
It's just not in graphite to do that. But you can get a really nice, rich, dark with
an eight B. Again as with charcoal, it's very difficult to get these very light values with
an eight. I'm working with my pencil very lightly, and this is about as light as I can
get with an eight. And you can see compared to the value I got with an F. It this one
is really down down about here with a three B. So you know you can create a good range
of values with just one tool. But if you want a complete range of values, you might want
to give yourself a couple of pencils like a two B, a four B, and an eight B would be
a great combination.