Graphite Sticks

Stand in front of a half-finished drawing at two in the morning and you’ll eventually ask yourself the same question every graphite artist asks: should this next mark come from a sharpened point or a chunky, wrapper-free stick the size of your thumb? That’s the real tension behind graphite sticks vs graphite pencils, and it’s … Read more

Somewhere between a pencil and a piece of charcoal sits one of the most underrated tools in an artist’s kit: the graphite stick. If you’ve ever finished a detailed portrait with a fine 2H pencil and thought “why is this taking three hours to shade one cheek”, you already understand the problem graphite sticks solve. … Read more