If you’ve ever used a Conté crayon, a graphite stick, or a pencil, you know the trade-off:
It’s a choice between the slow-going gradient of drawing pencils, or the dusty black handprints of those black stick implements.
But what if you could get the subtleties of pencils H to B, the speed of working with a graphite stick, the deep blacks of Conté, and cleaner hands?
And what if, on top of that, your drawings looked more like the one on the left than the one on the bottom? These are both my drawings but I love the gradients I got on the left, whereas the drawing on the bottom is inconsistent with its gradients. These photos are taken with a camera phone, but you’ll forgive me for introducing you to the LITHOGRAPHY CRAYON. Found in with the printmaking supplies.
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Gorgeous drawings. I actually really like both of them, but I do see what you’re saying about the one at the top. I’ll have to look into getting a lithography crayon…though I bet I won’t know what to do with it.
It’s easy to figure out!! You just break a piece off and use the flat edge, adjusting the pressure to get a darker mark. It’s a lot more eye-to-page than a pencil is, in my opinion.
Perhaps even warranting its own post…