• Bright, vivid colors that are greasy & thick.
• Can be scraped w/ a knife or smeared w/ fingers.
• Cannot be erased entirely.

• Not as messy as charcoal, but not stiff like pencil.
• Can be smudged with your fingers, but isn’t as fragile as charcoal.
• Comes in black/white/oranges/browns.

• Powdery & dry like charcoal.
• Can be layered if working light to dark.
• Drawing on a neutral colored pastel paper is best.
• Pastel drawings are easily damaged.
• Ideally should be preserved under glass.

• Oil paint in a stick, but much thicker & tackier.
• When purchased, have a skin that has to be peeled off.
• Excellent for painterly effects that are not so runny.

• Terrific for achieving intense details
• Colors can be layered
• Does not erase.
• Layers beautifully.
• Easy to control.

• Great to use with chalk pastels to get in details.
• Can be layered if working light to dark.
• Drawing on a neutral colored pastel paper is best.
• Pastel drawings are easily damaged.
• Ideally should be preserved under glass.

• Not water soluble.
• Rich, vibrant colors.
• Does not erase.
• Layers beautifully.
• Slightly harder than Neocolor II.

• Water soluble.
• Rich, vibrant colors.
• Does not erase.
• Can create watercolor-like effects.
• Layers beautifully.
• Softer than Neocolor II.

• Very intense, greasy, tacky bar of ink.
• Traditionally used for lithography.
• Can be used for drawing.
• Does not erase at all.
• Can be scraped w/ a knife or smeared w/ fingers.

• Hardness is #1-#5
• #1 is softest, #5 is hardest
• Can be used for drawing.
• Does not erase at all.
• Great for drawing details

• Large chunk of graphite
• Good for quickly making large areas tone.
• Comes in a range of hardnesses. B is soft, 9B is very soft.

• Pencils that are made entirely out of graphite.
• Able to create more variety in marks.
• Good for wide, varied marks
• Comes of a range of hardnesses. B is soft, 9B is very soft.

• Very easy to erase, just a quick wipe with your hand will do it!
• Best used in the beginning of a drawing for sketching
• Easily damaged and therefore isn’t good long term in a drawing.
• To be used with compressed charcoal, blending them works well!

• Can be erased, but you’ll never get back to the white of the page.
• Dark, velvety rich blacks that are intense and deep.
• Use after sketching our your image with vine charcoal
• Draw with the side of the compressed charcoal, the edge is generally much broader and will get you to loosen up.

• Comes in soft, medium, hard
• Hard charcoal pencils are often times scratchy and hard to draw with.
• Terrific for getting into very detailed areas.
• Experiment with varying degrees of pressure you use on the pencil.
• Sharpen with a razor blade, or an exacto knife.

• Spray over drawings in a dry media for protection
• Very toxic!!! NEVER EVER spray fixative indoors, unless you have a spray booth ventilation system.
• Fixative does slightly darken you drawing, not by a huge amount, but as the artist, you’ll see the difference.

• Cheap paper, good for quick sketches.
• Non-archival, will yellow over time.
• Only good for dry drawing media.
• Thin & easily torn.

• Has no oil;  tempered masonite has oil in it.
• Can be primed with gesso to be a painting surface
• Can be drawn on with crayons. or painted on w/ crayons.

• Excellent surface for crayon drawing.
• Stiff & durable.
• Black creates a substantial tone to build the drawing upon.

• Comes in several neutral colors.
• Surface has a slight tooth.
• Tooth of surface “grips” the powdery chalk pastel.
• Neutral colors makes the pastel drawing appear more susbtantial from the beginning.